As a result, the GAO issued new independence standards applicable to audits of federal departments and agencies and entities that receive federal funds, and the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation limited the ability of auditors of public companies to perform certain non-audit services for their audit clients.
Resultant of this, the GAO issued independence standards which were applicable to audits of departments and agencies which receive federal funds.
I never noticed it when I took the tray up, but when I came to take it into the mistress's room I saw it at once, and I suppose I ought to have taken it down again, and asked Cook to make some fresh.