How safe is GnuCash?

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, 70147persson at telia.com wrote:

> How safe is GnuCash? No, I am not talking about lack of bugs etc, but from an 
> auditor's point of view. How to secure that no one is manipulating the 
> figures in the book?

   Configure gnucash to require reversing transactions rather than direct
editing of transactions. This provides an audit trail of changes. However,
there's no way for any bookkeeping software to ensure that the entered
numbers are correct. Maintaining receipts and other documents helps with the
latter issue.

Rich