Level of Assurance (LoA) is a key component of authentication, but what does it mean? The phrase ‘level of assurance’ is identifying that with identity and authentication come in many shades of sureness. There are times when a low level of assurance is the right thing, such as an anonymous posting of comments on a … Read more
The International Framework for Assurance Engagements (The Framework) permits only two types of assurance engagement, i.e. a reasonable assurance engagement and a limited assurance engagement. Reasonable assurance engagement In a reasonable assurance engagement, the practitioner gathers sufficient appropriate evidence to conclude that the subject matter conforms in all material respects with identified suitable criteria, and … Read more
Praise for the Lord #71 Words: Fanny J. Crosby, 1873 Music: Phoebe Palmer Knapp, 1873 Fanny Crosby told slightly different stories of the origin of this hymn. Perhaps better known is her account from Memories of Eighty Years, In a successful song words and music must harmonize, not only in number of syllables, but in … Read more
Definitions: “Quality assurance” means the planned and systematic actions that provide adequate confidence that a diagnostic facility will produce consistently high-quality images with minimum exposure of the patients and healing arts personnel. The determination of what constitutes high quality will be made by the facility producing the images. Quality assurance actions include both “quality control” … Read more
Quality is an ongoing process, it’s a comprehensive program which analyse each and every aspect of an entire lab operation. It involves determination of quality goal, deciding whether the goal has been achieved and implementing corrective and preventive action (CAPA) if the goal has not been reached. “Quality assurance is a total process whereby the … Read more
This is a follow-up on my previous post “Are Telco Revenue Assurance Teams Responsible for all Revenue Loss and Fraud?” Because when writing that post, I realized that in order to really talk about Revenue Management, like I had promised, I would need to first talk about it in relation to Revenue Assurance. This is … Read more
I’ve been writing a lot about Revenue Management recently, and you can read part 1 and part 2 of my posts on it, as well as this one and this one. And just to be clear, while I do try to “define” or clarify what I think Revenue Management is in those posts (and this … Read more