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.
During the summer of 1816, eighteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was hanging out in a Swiss lake house with her lover and future husband Percy Bysshe Shelley; famous English poet, Lord Byron; and Byron's doctor John Polidori.