An audit trail consists of records that document every step in a business transaction. This may mean invoices for payments issued or sales contracts documenting revenue. Payroll and other human ...

A record of transactions in an information system that provides verification of the activity of the system. The simplest audit trail is the transaction itself. If a person's salary is increased, the ...

An election commission headed by former President Jimmy Carter and former secretary of state James A. Baker III drew attention last month by proposing that voters be outfitted with national ...

A woman suing a hospital over treatment that allegedly caused brain damage should be allowed to access "audit trail" information outlining which health care providers viewed her medical records and ...

An accounting audit trail strikes at the underlying conditions -- fraud, data incompleteness and missing information -- that breed inaccurate financial reporting. By giving corporate auditors fodder ...