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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Materi­ality is an important concept in auditing. The point of an audit is to certify the financial state­ments as being free of material misstatement. A material misstatement is one which would affect the decisions of a user of those state­ments. This recent blog post at the VeraSage Institute, more known for their pioneering work in […]

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I need to commend the publi­cation of my profession here in Canada, CA Magazine, for offering the full content of each issue online as soon as the physical copy of the issue arrives on my doorstep. There are many magazines that charge for access to their full content, but CA Magazine realizes that increased readership […]

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