Tech Note: Using the AccountMate Audit Trail to Improve Internal Controls

The AccountMate Audit Trail feature assists companies in achieving effective internal controls. The Audit Trail feature allows you to track each user who amends a transaction or a master record in AccountMate and provides the ability to track the date when each record was last amended. It also allows tracking of each user who accesses certain functions in the Administrator program to provide the ability to track the date when each function was last accessed.

Article #1296: Using the AccountMate Audit Trail to Improve Internal Controls outlines the procedures for setting up and purging the audit trail in AccountMate. This document also discusses the effects of tracking and purging audit trails as well as the reports that provide information about the audit trail settings and records.