41.   Internal audits released on Wednesday by the Pataki administration portray an agency with few controls, where state money sloshed freely with little regard for contracting procedures or documentation.

42.   Internal audits, unlike the external ones, are not legally required and are performed to help corporate managers keep better track of their money.

43.   Internal audits are conducted to ensure that each precinct captain is truly committed.

44.   It had no adequate review of maintenance documents, had no internal audit program, and had incomplete and disorganized training records of maintenance workers, the report said.

45.   Internal audit is the responsibility of management, and the SEC was worried that auditors would be reluctant to challenge bad internal auditing if done by their colleagues.

46.   It has opened its doors to investigators, conducted an internal audit of its practices and invested in a new corporate ethics program.

47.   It has yet to complete its own internal audit of its billing practices.

48.   Knox said the NRA has conducted internal audits which he said assured him the various payments to top officials were not improper.

49.   Nevertheless, the ethics program was relegated to the internal audit staff, and suffered the predicted lack of time and resources, the study found.

50.   One woman who was attracted was Sharon Kurtz, now a manager of internal audit services for the firm.