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		<title><![CDATA[MAXIMUS Inc. F3Q09 (Qtr End 06/30/09) Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions  Our first question comes from Charles Strauzer &#8211; CJS Securities. Charles Strauzer &#8211; CJS Securities Rich, ink up on your slide about healthcare reform and also talking about kind of the independence that is critical to any kind of package that were to come...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:25:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Celebrate Independence: Dare to Slack]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's the day before a three-day holiday weekend, and if you're like me, you're ready for a break from work.    Which explains why I'm leaving you with a couple of grins instead of a long and thoughtful post. I'm taking tomorrow off but will catch up with...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:51:26 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who Rules the BoE's King?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/03/25/who-rules-the-boes-king/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Was it deliberate or simply serendipitous that Bank of England governor Mervyn King inveighed against further fiscal stimulus just as PM Gordon Brown was extolling its virtues to Euro MPs (well, the few who turned up) in Strasbourg?    King is grown-up enough to know that timing matters...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:41:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Petrobras: Brazil's Oil Giant]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Brazilian state-owned giant is the fastest growing oil company in the world. By owning some shares of Petrobras PBR, you can hedge your bets against rising prices at the pump.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=72064]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sarbanes-Oxley act primarily is intended to address fraud in financial reporting and lack of oversight by the self-interested senior corporate management. Although many uncertainties remain regarding the act's implementation and eventual impact on corporate governance and liability, the act embodies an unprecedented effort to impose federal securities regulation on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jul 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Antecedents and Consequences of Independence Risk: Framework for Analysis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=138417]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper presents a framework that explains how certain incentives affecting independence risk interact with situational factors to affect actual or perceived audit quality. It articulates the combined effects of direct incentives, indirect incentives, and judgment-based decisions involving difficult accounting issues, materiality, and audit conduct. It then identifies a variety...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Auditor Independence: An Update]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=57499]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Auditor independence continues to be an important topic. Objectivity or "independence of mind" is essential for the exercise of professional judgement. It is a state of mind which only has regard to considerations relevant to the task in hand and ignores other factors. The objective of this section is to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who Needs Facts When You Have Common Sense? Thoughts on the SEC’s Proposal on Auditor Independence]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=58395]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, SEC Chief Accountant Lynn Turner sent the American Accounting Association AAA a letter suggesting various areas for research on auditing and other issues, including whether users of financial statements consider non-audit services to impair independence, and how disclosure of all non-audit services would affect investors' perceptions regarding independence....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2000 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reflections on Independence and Objectivity]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=56823]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of this article is to examine to what degree, if any, independence and objectivity might be compromised and the importance of independence, and to whom, when weighed against other factors influencing internal audit's ability to add value. The proposed changes to the Standards for the Professional Practice of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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