In Q4 last year, Microsoft announced through its Inter­op­er­ability @ Microsoft blog that it was planning to open up its propri­etary PST email format used by Outlook. The data in .pst files has been acces­sible through the Messaging API (MAPI) and Outlook Object Model (two things of which my under­standing is minimal at best), but […]

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BusinessDay, a South African business news website, published a recent article refer­encing an E&Y study involving “more than 100 industry analysts from more than 20 disci­plines”: Organ­i­sa­tions need to break out of the compliance cocoon and evolve into a fully fledged leadership role that delivers real value to the business. In the current economic climate, […]

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A survey conducted at the recent Institute of Internal Auditors annual conference by Protiviti has revealed that ⅔ of IA profes­sionals believe their department is under-resourced and therefore unable to adequately carry out their duties. Protiviti’s take is that due to increased expec­ta­tions of the assurance Internal Audit can provide on an ever-widening spectrum of […]

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Converting their payroll system has resulted in some serious errors to the tune of greater than $1.5 million for the Fort Worth (Texas) school district. The school district overpaid employees and former employees at least $1.54 million, according to the [internal] audit. It also found that the district’s payroll system lacked proper controls, was cumbersome […]

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A survey conducted in July and August of 2009 by Aon has revealed that companies are moving beyond “basic” ERM imple­men­ta­tions: 62% of the survey respon­dents in the Global Enter­prise Risk Management Survey 2010 reported going beyond basic ERM, compared with only 38% in Aon’s inaugural ERM survey in 2007. I wonder what happened between now […]

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