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audit trail

noun

  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.


audit trail

noun

  1. a record of all the transactions or data entries that a person or firm has carried out over a specific period
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of audit trail1

First recorded in 1965–70
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Example Sentences

Any financial transaction would also most likely have left an audit trail.

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