Read the Benefits of Audit Trail in QuickBooks

 An audit trail is an incredible and important feature of QuickBooks that will helps business owners in managing and organizing accounting files, entries, and transactions (modified, voided, and deleted audit trail very easily. It is like a “digital fingerprint” via which you can track and control all your inventory data. An audit trail report is quite helpful to the business as it keeps all accounting records secure and ordered. You can use audit trail this feature to allow multi-users to access the QuickBooks files and data and also track the changes made by them without any miss. 

How to Run QuickBooks Audit Trail:

Running and accessing the audit trail in QuickBooks is quite an easy and systematic task. You can use the below steps to run an audit trail.

• First, you need to open your QuickBooks account.
• Then go to the “Edit” menu and from the listed options, choose the “Preferences” option.
• Now you will see a dialog box with “Preferences” options. 
• After that, specify that you want to modify the preference of accounting for the company’s data file. 
• To modify and change accounting preferences: Hit the icon bar which is present on the left side of the “Preferences” dialog box.
• Now you can appropriately choose the accounting set of preferences.
• Once done, now press on the “Company Preferences” option.
• Now you need to inform QuickBooks about your need to use “Audit”
• After that go to the ‘Audit Trail check box,’ and hit the OK button to proceed further. 
• Once done with the above steps, now QuickBooks will automatically keep a record of each and every user and also the changes made by them in the “Accounting file”.

Benefits of Using QuickBooks Audit Trail:

• As a training tool - Beginners, as well as old users, can easily manage all the deleted and modified transactions data without any hindrance or worries.
• As a control tool – The owner can easily manage the authorization of any specific transaction. You can also keep track of each file and modifications are done on it. Apart from this, you can handily check all the files and transactions without any miss.

Overall QuickBooks audit trail is a great feature that lets you keep a secure track of your company’s accounting file. In case, you encounter any problem or issues while running the audit trail then you can contact the customer executive via QuickBooks Support Phone Number. Our team will surely help to delete and erase the audit trail related to QuickBooks.