The process, performed by accountants or auditors, of providing independent opinion on published financial and other business information of a business, public agency, or other organization.
A thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, or authenticate; validation, verification, documentation.
A confirmation or authentication.
An appearance in print or otherwise recorded on a permanent medium.
A set of data to be analyzed.
A file of related records on a computer-readable medium such as disk, especially one on a mainframe computer; a dataset.
A modem (that connects a device such as a teletype to an ordinary telephone).