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.
Mary Shelley began her work on the Frankenstein novel on June 16, 1816 when she was 18 years old. She reveals how she came upon the novelâs idea in her introduction to its 1831 edition (4, pp. 361â366) where she replies to the question often put to her as to where she could get such an idea and at such a young age.