here is very good news for CPAs whose clients face the often burdensome administrative costs of claiming allowable expense deductions for meals and entertainment (M&E)—the IRS now will permit the use ...

A federal court may not weigh in on a case involving the controversial use of statistical sampling in Medicare false claims cases, according to recent legal arguments. A panel of judges with the U.S.

When auditing a company, auditors use a combination of professional judgment and statistical sampling methods to estimate account balances. Statistical sampling is an efficient way to design samples, ...

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IT WAS Mark Twain who coined the famous phrase, denoting his suspicion of statistics. Many congressional Republicans seem to share his concerns. They are determined to stop the Census Bureau from ...

Confronted with the sheer mass of records created by modern bureaucracies, archivists have employed sampling, both as a tool to determine the research potential of records and as an appraisal device.

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