Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

contrôle par épreuves

English translation:

sample-based audit

Added to glossary by philgoddard
Dec 5, 2012 15:29
11 yrs ago
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French term

contrôles par épreuves

French to English Bus/Financial Finance (general) general contract conditions
La vérification des écritures et leur rapprochement avec les pièces justificatives ne sont effectués que par contrôles par épreuves ; ces vérifications ne comportent pas de contrôle systématique des pièces justificatives elles-mêmes


...seeking confirmation ;) MTIA
Proposed translations (English)
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Change log

Dec 11, 2012 06:27: philgoddard Created KOG entry

Dec 11, 2012 06:27: philgoddard changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/71839">philgoddard's</a> old entry - "contrôles par épreuves"" to ""sample-based audit""

Proposed translations

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sample-based audit

You haven't given the background, but I assume these are some kind of accounting documents. A sample-based audit is one in which a representative sample of documents is audited.
Example sentence:

Given that VPI pays over a million policy claims each year, sample-based audit techniques simply cannot provide enough coverage to deliver meaningful results.

Peer comment(s):

agree AllegroTrans : even if they are not accounting documents, this might still work, "audit" nowadays being a word used in a wider sense than I was young (i.e. aeons ago)
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Precisely. Thanks.
agree Yvonne Gallagher
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