Financial Audit Trail Overview A financial audit trail records every change to financial data — orders, payments, refunds, manual price adjustments, and invoice approvals — with who made the change, when, from what IP, and what the record looked like before and after. This infrastructure is required for PCI-DSS logging compliance, SOX ITGC evidence, GDPR erasure audit trails, and financial statement audits. Every major e-commerce platform generates some audit history; the gap is usually in completeness, manual change attribution, and export format for auditors. When to Use This Skill - When y…