Controls and Security · Odoo glossary
Audit Trail
An audit trail preserves evidence of transactions and relevant changes, including who performed an action and when.
Definition
In general ERP practice
An audit trail preserves evidence of transactions and relevant changes, including who performed an action and when. It should allow reviewers to trace financial figures back to source records.
In Odoo
Odoo Accounting includes an Audit Trail report and secured-entry hashing to help verify accounting data integrity. Chatter tracks configured field changes on supported records; these tools are not a universal immutable log of every action in every app.
Official Odoo documentation
The Odoo-specific explanation above is based on the documentation for Odoo 19. Features and workflows can differ in other versions.
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