How safe is GnuCash?

[Robert Kesterson]

This has been discussed before, fairy recently.  There is no system, either in paper or in software, that can give you absolute assurance of the audit trail you seek.   There are only successive approximations. 

> On Jan 11, 2017, at 1:10 PM, 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? The best way of book keeping is an, in advance paginated, paper book, in which you write your notes with non erasable ink. Then, if I make a mistake, I have to make a change by drawing a straight line (in ink) over the wrong figures and write the correct ones next to the original and sign it with my signature. That way the auditor can see all changes and can verify it to the written documents/verifications.
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> A good electronic book keeping system should be as close to these (manual) methods as possible, and I have also seen such programs. An already written and accepted notation can never be changed in such a program, but substituted with the correct one next to the original. Moreover there are log files, protected with checksums, where all transactions are noted.
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> Does GnuCash have anything of this? My impression is no, but I might have missed something important. If not  the program is not much better then a simple spread sheet, which some people use, although a wee easier to use. When using GnuCash or any book keeping program, in professional business, and if I was the auditor I would demand these facilities, to make sure that no way exist to manipulate the book after the original book keeping .
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> /Kaj
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