The audit trail, who changed what

Every change to a money record is recorded in a permanent trail you can hand to an accountant or auditor. It answers "an expense was $5,000 and is now $500, who changed it, when, and what was it before?"

What is recorded

For every money change (a charge, a payment, an expense created, edited, or removed, an approval or rejection, a refund) the trail records:

• Who made the change and when.
• The before and after values, so the original is always recoverable.
• The IP address the change came from.

Nothing is edited or erased in place

A money figure is never overwritten or hard-deleted. When you edit a posted expense, Wealtharu records a reversing entry that cancels the old amount and a new entry for the new amount. Both stay in the books. When you remove a financial record, it is archived (kept for your records) and its ledger entry is reversed, never purged. This is required for an audit and for CRA record-keeping.

It is tamper-evident

The trail and the ledger are chained together cryptographically, per account. If a single row were deleted, reordered, or changed directly in the database, the chain would break and the built-in verifier would flag it. You can run that check from the General ledger page.

Export for your accountant

Your data export includes the full change history as financial-change-log.csv, alongside the trial balance and the general-ledger listing. So an accountant can see not just the current numbers but exactly how they got there. See "Export for your accountant".

Good to know

This is tooling, not accounting or legal advice. The trail helps you and your accountant substantiate the figures. Keep your accountant in the loop before filing.