deleting

[Derek Atkins]

Once we move closer to embedded SQL I think we'll have a better
chance of using audit trails.

-derek

Dale Alspach <alspach at math.okstate.edu> writes:

> What some accounting software allows is the deleting/revising of
> transactions and other entries from the normally visible registers, but
> all of the  time stamped versions of a transaction are secretly kept in
> the audit trail along with any time stamped deletion. For example
>  QuickBooks Pro has an optional
> audit trail. Essentially an audit trail is like a log which could be
> played back to reconstruct the state of the books at any moment. (It
> is slightly coarser than a keystroke history since only committed
> transactions are recorded.)
> 
> I had it turned on (in QuickBooks Pro) for the last fiscal year for an
> organization that I help, and then tried to use it to clear up some
> oddities at the end of the year. I found that searching the audit
> trail was difficult and that I was always getting either way too much
> information or not enough.
> 
> I think that having an audit trail available for gnucash will be
> important for its adoption by some businesses. Larger business
> might also need some type of login so that the audit trail would
> also show who made which changes. QuickBooks Pro has been around
> a while and the fact that its implementation is not very
> satisfactory indicates that doing audit trails well may require a
> lot of careful planning.
> 
> Dale Alspach
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