Agreed Upon Procedures (AUP) and Standardized Information Gathering (SIG) The BITS Shared Assessment Program was created by leading financial institutions, the Big 4 accounting firms, and key service providers to inject standardization, consistency, speed, efficiency and cost savings into the service provider assessment process.
April 09, 1995|James Grant | James Grant is an occasional contributor to Calendar. It's Friday, and Shelley Winters is craving red meat. Lying on a daybed in the cluttered living room of her Spanish-style Beverly Hills duplex, the 72-year-old two-time Oscar winner is chatting on the phone. I'm sorry about last night, she purrs to an anonymous friend.
Behind the craving and the common condition that often causes it. Kay Suzanne is a 45-year-old stay-at-home mom of two kids who developed a serious addiction to eating ice. She speaks about the compulsion and how she finally overcame it. After I gave birth to my daughter at the age of 34, I developed iron deficiency anemia.