Patent Document ID: 20020107764
Application ID: 09731008
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for enabling a plurality of audit firms, each operating independently of each other and having a reporting relationship with a common investment entity to perform substantially identical current net operating income (NOI) audit practices on behalf of the common investment entity, each of the plurality of audit firms being adapted to conduct an audit of a respective real estate property for the purpose of generating an associated set of current NOI values, said plurality of audit firms using respective copies of a computer program, the method comprising: deploying said respective copies of said computer program to said audit firms, said computer program including an interactive global NOI audit model and user-viewable standards, procedures, documentation, and reporting requirements, said deployed computer program being adapted for receiving a respective first input data in connection with the respective real estate property and generating a respective current NOI audit report associated with said respective real estate property; inputting said respective first input data by the respective audit firm to said computer program; receiving by the investment entity at least one said respective current NOI audit report, said at least one report being generated by a respective copy of said deployed computer program and reflecting said received respective first input data, wherein all said received respective current NOI audit reports have been developed by substantially identical audit practices resulting from the respective audit firms using said interactive global NOI audit model and user-viewable standards, procedures, documentation, and reporting requirements.