At its annual Awards Night on April 21, 2010, TEXO, the combined chapter of the North/East Texas Chapter of the Associated General Contractors and the Associated Builders and Contractors North Texas, named Balfour Beatty Construction’s Hank Mouser its 2010 Safety Professional of the Year. The award recognizes safety professionals who demonstrate a commitment to safety excellence by leading their company’s safety and environmental efforts and helping to raise the level of safety awareness for the entire construction industry.

Global eProcure is proud to announce that it obtained an unqualified SAS 70 Type II report for its entities in Clark, NJ and Mumbai, India. SAS 70 (Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70) is granted following an audit of a services business such as a product development and SaaS company that reviews its entire internal control framework and evaluates its internal control processes. The SAS 70 Type I and II independent auditor reports do not show any exceptions and will give clients the confidence that Global eProcure is a reliable entity that has demonstrated robust internal controls.

Just two months after the appointment of member firms in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, London-based accounting group Russell Bedford International has taken a further step in its expansion into Central Asia by adding a member firm in the Republic of Tajikistan.

Asian Business Group (ABG) is a multi-discipline professional services group comprising an audit practice, a finance and business consulting firm and a tax/legal services practice. The group was created in 2005 and is now one of the leading audit and consulting firms in Tajikistan.

Have you received notice for a tax audit from the IRS? Are you prepared to deal with this legal matter? Most of the people hire tax attorneys to fight the issue. However, there are few people who think that they can deal with the IRS on their own. It is possible, but most of the time they find themselves in a mess just because of misinformation and little knowledge about work ethics of the IRS. For most people the main reason for not hiring any tax professional or tax attorney is to save money.

The ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) hosted a public debate entitled “Future of Audit” to discuss the increasing public interest in the work of auditors in current economic conditions around the world. Topics discussed included role of audit in society, tackling the lack of transparency, addressing corruption, calls for stricter adherence to existing regulations and greater cooperation with regulators, the economics of audit in times of downturn, proportionate and fair limitation of auditor liability.