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Future proofing your electronic audit files using plaintext

In shortEvolving software file types sometimes make it impossible to access files or workpapers which were created in file types that are currently no longer readily available. In order to ensure forward compatibility, I'm considering adopting the .txt plaintext format as the go-to format for both verbose file documentation and tabular data in our audit … Continue reading Future proofing your electronic audit files using plaintext