audit trail

noun

: a record of a sequence of events (as actions performed by a computer) from which a history of those events may be reconstructed

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1. Accounting. the process or an instance of cross-referring each bookkeeping entry to its source in order to facilitate checking its accuracy.

2. Computers. a track of a particular item of output data back through the processing steps that produced it to the corresponding input data.

[1965-70]

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audit trail noun (computing)

The record of the file updating that takes place during a specific transaction

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Main Entry: ↑audit

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audit trail UK US noun [countable] [singular audit trail plural audit trails] business

information that is recorded, for example on paper or in a computer, and that proves that events happened in a particular way

Thesaurus: proof and evidence_synonym

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audit trail,

a record of the passage of data in a computer or data processing machine, used especially to trace data from an output back to the original or source items: »

the computer's audit trail—the internal monitoring system that can record all significant actions of the users (New Yorker).

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ˈaudit trail 7 [audit trail] noun

the detailed record of information on paper or on a computer that can be examined to prove what happened, for example what pieces of business were done and what decisions were made

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There is an audit trail by way of tax invoices which VAT auditors can follow.