Who changed what, forever
Every consequential change leaves a name and a timestamp. When a number looks wrong, the audit trail turns 'who touched this?' from an office argument into a lookup.
What you get
What the books used to say
The audit trail is the record of journal lines that WERE in the books and no longer are — each with its entry date, account, amounts, the document it belonged to, why it went, when, and by whom. 'Replaced' rows accumulate as corrections happen; nothing is ever silently overwritten.
Tap a row and the document it belonged to opens — the trail is navigable, not archival.
Corrections leave fingerprints
Edit an invoice and its old journals move here as the new ones post. The ledger stays clean to read; the history stays complete to audit. Who changed what, when, and what the numbers were before — the three questions every audit asks, answered by design.
163 superseded rows in a trading month is a business correcting itself in the open, which is exactly what an auditor wants to see.
Trust is the product
Permission gates decide who can edit; the trail records that they did. Together with period locks and the self-checking statements, the result is books a lender, buyer or CRA reviewer can walk through without a leap of faith anywhere.
Every number defensible, every change explained — that is the whole promise, kept mechanically.
Frequently asked questions
Does the audit trail cover staff actions at the till?
Documents, returns, adjustments and permission approvals all leave their trace — the trail follows the money wherever it moved.