Audit Trail
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Enterprise Correctness in the Age of Infinite Generation
The scarce resource is no longer information. It is verifiable truth. AI is a powerful tool — but the control plane for fiduciary systems must …
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Ledger Enforcement: The Missing Layer in Fiduciary Financial Systems
Audit logs and approvals do not enforce correctness; only ledger-level constraints can prevent fiduciary violations before money moves.
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Why Most Accounting Software Is Not Legally Defensible
If you can't defend your books in front of an auditor or a judge, you don't have accounting software—you have a ledger-shaped UI. Board members …
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Why Configuration Changes Must Be Audited Like Financial Transactions
If you can't prove who changed what configuration when, your audit trail has a hole large enough to hide fraud. Configuration is financial infrastructure.
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Why Time Is the Hardest Problem in Accounting Software
Accounting systems don't fail because they get math wrong. They fail because they forget the past. Your books from January must be explainable by January's …
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Why Audit Trails Fail in Most HOA Software
Your software claims to have an "audit trail." But can you prove exactly how every journal entry was created, by whom, under what rules? Most …
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What Is Posting Provenance?
Every journal entry should know exactly how it was created—which rules were applied, which accounts were used, and why. This is posting provenance.