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- Missouri Society of Accountants - A member guided organization designed to promote education and standards for all accountants. Providing tax preparation, estate planning, and business management.
- Accounting on the Web - View your custom and standard accounting data securely on the web. Web sites created to link to your financial database.
- The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Newfoundland - Serves its membership and the public in maintaining professional standards of accountancy. Includes membership and career information, with a directory of CA's in the province.
- The Efficacy Institute - The Institute promotes education reform by implementing high standards of academic achievement for children and young adults.
- Campaign for Real Education - Campaigning for higher standards and more parental choice in UK state education. Not affiliated with any political party and funded entirely by voluntary donations.
- Independent Voices for Better Education - An organization dedicated to improving education and educational accountability. Based in Florida, the organization is planning to expand throughout the United States.
- The Problem With Music - Article by Steve Albini about how standard accounting and contracts have made the music industry so bloated and unproductive.
- Dole Europe - European packer and distributor. Products, quality standards and accountability, and environmental information.
Wikipedia Articles
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - ... the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with State governments to administer Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and health insurance portability standards. In addition to these programs, CMS has other responsibilities, including the administrative simplification standards from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), quality standards in long-term care facilities (more commonly referred to as nursing homes) through its survey and certification process, and clinical laboratory quality standards under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments.
- Sphere Project - The Sphere ProjectSphere Project was launched in 1997 to develop a set of minimum standards in core areas of humanitarian assistance. The aim of the project is to improve the quality of assistance provided to people affected by disasters, and to enhance the accountability of the humanitarian system in disaster response.
- High School Competency Test - ... from the early 1980s until the implementation of the FCAT in the late 1990s. First mandated by the State Board of Education in 1977, it was the first attempt by the state to ensure that school districts across the state were being held to at least some minimal standards of accountability.
- Standardized Testing and Reporting - The Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program measures performance on the California Achievement Test, Sixth Edition Survey (CAT/6 Survey), the California Content Standards Test and the Spanish Assessment of Basic Education (SABE/2). The STAR Program is the cornerstone of the California Public Schools Accountability Act of 1999 (PSAA).
- California State Board of Education - The California State Board of Education is the governing and policy-making body of the California Department of Education. The State Board of Education sets K-12 education policy in the areas of standards, instructional materials, assessment, and accountability.