Welcome to Audit Quotes, your go-to destination for insightful and inspiring quotes on the world of audits. Auditing is a critical process in various sectors, including finance, business, and governance, aimed at ensuring accuracy, compliance, and accountability. From renowned industry experts to influential leaders, the realm of auditing has seen a wealth of wisdom shared through profound quotes that encapsulate the essence and significance of this discipline.
Within the pages of Audit Quotes, you’ll discover a curated collection of thought-provoking quotes that shed light on the importance of audits, the principles behind them, and the broader implications they have on organizations and society as a whole. Whether you’re a seasoned auditor seeking motivation or someone curious about the role of audits in today’s world, these quotes offer valuable insights and perspectives that can enlighten and inspire.
Explore the diverse array of quotes presented here, and feel free to use them in presentations, reports, or simply as daily reminders of the significance of audit processes. With each quote, delve deeper into the realm of audits and gain a deeper understanding of their role in fostering transparency, trust, and integrity.
Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD spends taxpayer dollars. Pete Hegseth
I’ve always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I liked to audit them. Scott Snyder
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents. Barton Gellman
Mr. Trump’s position has been clear from the beginning: He’s under audit. When the audit is completed, he’ll release his returns. Paul Manafort
Most philanthropists want to be effective altruists. But the problem isn’t intention: it’s measurement. Unlike financial investing, which has reporting standards, audit processes, and educational requirements, social investing is notoriously tricky to evaluate. Leila Janah
I hope that I can continue to champion Dr. Paul’s efforts to audit the Fed, protect state’s rights, and getting our nation back on track. Ted Yoho
Billions of taxpayers’ money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown’s team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed. Vince Cable
I said you could sue a ham sandwich. It’s not going to change anything. Well, you can audit a ham sandwich, and it’s not going to change anything. John Fetterman
In Westminster, I make sure I maximise my ability to represent my constituents. I can do that in a variety of ways: by asking written questions or questions in the House of Commons, through the scrutiny of bills and by sitting on the environmental audit select committee every week, as well as other committees. Jo Swinson
The DoD has never undergone an audit. In 2004, it actually pledged to undergo a full audit by 2007, but that deadline came and went, and then they moved it to 2016. No one, not even the DoD, thinks they’ll actually be able to pass it in 2016. Nick Turse
This is very intriguing to think we should audit the Fed, but I discovered that probably if they audited the Fed, it would get a clean bill because it’s undoubtedly doing exactly what it’s supposed to do according to the law. G. Edward Griffin
If e-wallet providers are unregulated, dubious operators will easily manage to avoid audit trails and electronic finger-prints. Sucheta Dalal
Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people. John Poindexter
An audit of the courses our people are taking up, particularly younger and middle-aged Singaporeans must be reviewed every so often in consultation with input from the Industry Transformation Maps stakeholders so as to even as the best outcomes possible for our workers in the medium term. Pritam Singh
I have gone to great lengths, and in some cases beyond what is required by the reporting guidelines to ensure all of my filings are beyond reproach, by hiring an independent third-party accounting firm to review and audit all of my previous annual financial disclosures. Bob Corker
I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services. Imran Khan
Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails. Bob Barr
The Pentagon can’t even audit its own books. It doesn’t even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they’re spending. Tom Coburn
It’s absolutely critical that we audit the Fed so the American people can see what’s going on over there. Do it from top to bottom so that we can have transparency in this entity called the Federal Reserve. Hopefully, the American people will see that we need to go back to the gold standard, which I’ve introduced, and get rid of the Fed. Paul Broun
I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you’ve experienced before. It even happens to Google! Matt Mullenweg
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP. Polly Toynbee
I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I’m balancing time between my career and my personal life. Jill Wagner
I want to be completely clear that I strongly oppose ‘Audit the Fed.’ Janet Yellen
I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised to send me into their offices in more than 40 countries and essentially audit the practices. It was an extraordinary job. Jacqueline Novogratz
I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit. Jane Pauley
The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted. Kenneth Blackwell
Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status. Northrop Frye
The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed’s lending programs during the financial crisis. Bernie Sanders
Defense leaders should be searching for ways to reform out-of-date procurement processes, to collapse layers of Pentagon bureaucracy, and to restrain the growth in personnel and benefits costs. A critical first step in that process should be to conduct a full Pentagon audit to determine how DOD spends taxpayer dollars. Pete Hegseth
With greater extensibility and programmability, bitcoin can evolve to enable transformations in how all forms of property are secured and exchanged, how voting and governance function, including spilling into the automation of commercial law, audit, and accounting. Jeremy Allaire
Audit the Fed is a bill that would politicize monetary policy, would bring short-term political pressures to bear on the Fed. In terms of openness about our financial accounts, we are extensively audited. Janet Yellen
You talk to tax attorneys who are not politically motivated, and they will tell you they would never advise their client to release any tax information in the course of an audit. Paul Manafort
