preliminary audit

A preliminary audit report in November said he was vastly overpaid, with annual compensation of more than $328,000.

Mr. Rowland said a preliminary audit had revealed a range of technical problems with the testing.

Preliminary audit stage: Global monthly consumptions are generally insufficient to allow an accurate understanding of the building's behaviour.

Mr. Seidman said that his agency's preliminary audit showed that the fund was worth $8.4 billion at the end of last year.

Robert Anderson, New York Telephone's managing director for regulatory planning, said the company disagreed with the findings of the preliminary audit.

We have looked at a preliminary audit of the performance and there is documentation of a number of inappropriate mistakes that shouldn't have happened."

The preliminary audit, by the firm of Buchbinder Tunick & Company of Manhattan, focused only on the development center.

A preliminary audit suggested that its bad loans totaled at least 40 billion korunas ($1.08 billion), but most analysts say the total will be almost twice that.

When Palmieri's financial analysts completed their preliminary audit, a few weeks after the takeover, they estimated that Crazy Eddie's inventory was short by $40 to $50 million.

A preliminary audit indicates that at least $1.8 billion is missing from the two agencies, which are to be replaced by new bodies under more direct controls of the executive branch.

The preliminary audit (alternatively called a simple audit, screening audit or walk-through audit) is the simplest and quickest type of audit.

The accounting office, which has completed a preliminary audit of the trust corporation for 1991, has decided to report that significant progress has been made in cleaning up the agency's books.

Mr. Dinkins has been criticized by the Campaign Finance Board for a poorly organized accounting system that has not permitted a preliminary audit by the board.

Agency officials today cautioned against drawing too many conclusions from what they said were preliminary audit figures, but they pledged to take away the citizenship of anyone who did not deserve it.

But the agency paid millions of dollars to companies without getting details on how they had calculated their losses, a flaw that persisted despite a preliminary audit that flagged the problems.

The preliminary audit, conducted by the office of State Comptroller H. Carl McCall, reviewed statistics at the seven New York City schools with the most student suspensions.

The precise nature of the problems the preliminary audit found were unclear on Wednesday, but a lawyer for the State Department of Motor Vehicles said they involved testing equipment and software.

The preliminary audit of the city's Child Welfare Administration, a division of the Human Resources Administration, was conducted by the office of Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi.

The state is suspending its auto emissions testing program for as long as 90 days, Gov. John G. Rowland said on Wednesday, after a preliminary audit revealed a range of technical problems.

Mr. Stock said the state and Agbar had an agreement to each use independent consultants to review the problems before discussing a solution but a copy of one preliminary audit was leaked to a newspaper.

The state suspended testing on April 22 for up to 90 days after legislators received a preliminary audit report detailing numerous concerns about the testing, which is run by Agbar Technologies of Chicago.

The preliminary audit found that on 35 percent of the tests on the cars surveyed built after 1996, technicians had switched to an easier test after failing cars on the more stringent computer test.

"The 203(K) program, as currently designed, is too risky because it permits investors, nonprofits and lenders to walk away with big profits, leaving HUD liable for the mortgages," the preliminary audit noted.

After completing a preliminary audit of the county's Assessment Review Commission last month, Mr. Weitzman estimated the tax refund backlog at $365 million, roughly $45 million higher than the commission's own estimate.

Vimpel Communications, known as VimpelCom, confirmed on Wednesday that it received a preliminary audit from the Russian tax ministry stating that it owed 4.4 billion rubles ($157.8 million) in taxes for 2001.