Look up: audit-trail

1. Audit Trail
   An audit trail may be on paper or on disk. In computer security systems, a chronological record of when users log in, how long they arc engaged in various activities, what they were doing, whether any actual or attempted security violations occurred.
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2. Audit trail
   A record of the activity that has occurred to a certain file/document that may be kept for legal reasons.
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3. Audit Trail
   A step-by-step record by which data can be traced to its source.
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4. Audit trail
   The record of trading information identifying the brokers participating, the firms clearing, the terms and time of the trade and when applicable the customers involved.
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5. Audit trail
   The systematic presentation of material gathered within a naturalistic study that allows others to follow and audit the researcher's thinking and conclusions about the data
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6. audit trail
   On a network, an audit trail is kept by the network software. It as a record of users, when they were on the system and the files they accessed.
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7. Audit trail
   Resolves the validity of an accounting entry by a step-by-step record by which accounting data can be traced to their source.
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8. audit trail
   A record showing who has accessed a computer system and what operations he or she has performed during a given period of time. Audit trails are useful both for maintaining security and for recovering lost transactions. Most accounting systems and database management systems include an audit trail co...
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9. audit trail
   a sequential record of events having occurred in a system...
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10. audit trail
    Information on the significant steps in the progress of a transaction which allows an auditor to determine that there are no errors in the reporting of the transaction. In electronic commerce a good audit trail can help resolve programming errors and discrepancies in the how a transaction is recorded by the parties to the transaction.
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11. audit trail
    A path by which the original input to a process (e.g. data) can be traced back through the process, taking the process output as a starting point. This facilitates defect analysis and allows a process audit to be carried out. [After TMap]...
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12. Audit Trail
    The evidence of actions (whether automated or manual) performed upon data from original documents to final disposition. The existence of a reliable, easy-to-follow audit trail is considered one indication of good internal control in an organization.
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13. Audit Trail
    The documentation of transactions for use by consumers and auditors of financial statements to substantiate the authenticity and accuracy of the financial statements. Also, a report available in the General Ledger module that provides a chronological listing by account of the entries posted to each account.
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14. Audit trail
    A regulatory requirement for records to track the progress of a futures market order. Also a similar provision in many branches of accounting.
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15. Audit trail
    `Audit trail` is a sequence of steps supported by proof documenting the real processing of a transaction flow through an organization, a process or a system. (Definition for an audit and/or IT environment). An Audit log is a chronological sequence of audit records, each of which contains evidence di...
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