audit trail

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noun

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

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

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Origin of audit trail

First recorded in 1965–70

Words nearby audit trail

auditory aphasia, auditory canal, auditory nerve, auditory phonetics, auditory vesicle, audit trail, Audrey, Audubon, Audubon, John James, Audubon Society, Audubon's warbler

How to use audit trail in a sentence

Any financial transaction would also most likely have left an audit trail.
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British Dictionary definitions for audit trail

audit trail

noun

a record of all the transactions or data entries that a person or firm has carried out over a specific period

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