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

Word History and Origins

Origin of audit trail¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast