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 ...

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, ...

The issue of using statistical sampling in federal False Claims Act (FCA) cases has come to the fore in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, following a U.S. District Court decision denying its use in a ...

1. The government has been dramatically increasing the use of data mining to identify potential health care fraud and data analysis to support liability and damages in False Claims Act cases. 2. One ...

Survey sampling and estimation methods form the cornerstone of modern statistical inference, underpinning research across the social, medical, and natural sciences. At their heart, these methods ...

Visual Sample Plan is a software tool that supports the development of a defensible sampling plan based on statistical sampling theory and the statistical analysis of sample results to support ...

The Committee on National Statistics held a 2-day public workshop on estimating the prevalence of human trafficking in the United States on April 8-9, 2019. The workshop explored current and ...