During that time companies wouldn't have to undergo the Sarbanes-Oxley law's redundant external audit of an internal audit of their business processes which of course comes on top of the internal and external financial audits.

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Did we make any progress in changing attitudes about control value of internal audit, as a very necessary cost of doing business, in the last seven years?

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The role of each business unit becomes blurrier with each new hire and after an internal audit, we found a startling amount of redundant tasks and unfinished projects that were due to each group not knowing what the other was doing.

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Although shareholders have not seen any financial data since Lime began the internal audit of its books last July, there have been numerous announcements of progress in its utility business.

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