Clarify Responsibility
Have a clear record of who is responsible for any action taken: Who created a document, who deleted the document, who shared it. Proof of actions taken.
Full regulatory compliant audit trail system, so you and your customers have peace of mind. Already buit-in.
TimeCatchApp has a complete audit trail tracking capability built into the system. The audit trail will leave an indelible record of your team's activities: Datetime stamps, person who did the action, and what the action was. Easily accessed for you, your customer, or any regulatory official. Never worry about losing this information again. And TimeCatchApp is the only platform designed for consultants, freelancers, SMBs that has this feature.
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Have a clear record of who is responsible for any action taken: Who created a document, who deleted the document, who shared it. Proof of actions taken.
With this information, any disputes about who is responsible for action is quickly resolved. Did you upload your document on schedule? Proof is in the audit trail.
Like a features in TimeCatchApp, this is project oriented. The audit trail is attached to the project. Easily found, and always there. Always working in the background: You need not worry about any data getting lost or forgotten.
If you need just a basic version of the audit trail software, that is available for free, and is automatically running on every account. If you need audit trails for all actions you, your vendors, and your customers take on the system, the Regulatory Grade audit trail is what you will need: Designed with regulated industries in mind. And available only from TimeCatchApp.
It ensures that responsibility for any output or action can be traced properly. It ensures inspectors, be they you in the future, your customer, or in some cases regulators, will have confidence of who did the work, that the work was done by some qualified to do the work, and that the results were not altered.
An audit trail should have the following characteristics:
TimeCatchApp audit trail has these features to protect you. You will not always need this, but when you do it can save you hundreds of hours of work and thousands of dollars of potential lost revenue.
Audit trails are an important tool in many fields to maintain accountability, responsibility, and compliance with regulations, including in finance, drug development, nuclear energy and other areas.
Audit trails are essential for ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOX) by providing verifiable documentation of data or document handling. They identify the exact user or system component responsible for creating, modifying, or deleting data, promoting accountability among employees. They track the full lifecycle of a document or transaction to ensure it has not been tampered with or improperly modified.
A consultant in a small consultancy was looking for a document that was needed as a source for a subsequent deliverable. The consultant went to the shared drive where all of the project work was being stored. The key document was not there. The consultant panicked! Where is it? The entire group scrambled to find the document. After 4 hours of searching, during which time no billable work was performed, the document was found in another directory, where it had been placed by accident.
Without the audit trail, there was no way of knowing where the document was, how it got moved, who made this mistake, or if the document had originally been placed in the wrong location. An audit trail with a centralized storage system like TimeCatchApp would have resolved the issue within a few minutes.Audit trails support trust, since all of the actions, such as storing of new documents, updates of documents, when invoices were sent, and more, are tracked in the audit trail. And the audit trail is performed in the background, so you never need to worry about it.
Basic audit trail processes come automatically with every TimeCatchApp account. Standard audit trail tracks the following actions:
If you work in a regulated industry, you will need the upgraded audit trails. This will ensure full compliance with regulations and will provide the necessary review capabilities for inspectors. And is easy to find.
The regulatory level of audit trails tracks everything in the standard level, plus:
Every covered action is tracked in the audit trail. This is by project, and also by task. Never lose sleep over lost information and lack of documentation again. We have you covered!
Your plan's covered actions are automatically logged. Always on, from the start.
All covered actions are tracked at the level there were made. This makes it easier to find the log when needed, and associates the action with the specific task. And it does not slow down your system performance.
Same access restrictions to the log files as to any other file associated with the project. No need for separate roles for this function. Makes the system admin function easy!
For service-based teams, a modern audit trail is required. It saves you time when problems arise, maintains actions with transparency, and as industries increasingly rely on QA processes such as Six Sigma you will need the proof that the work was done, when it was done, and by whom it was done. And it comes bundles with TimeCatchApp.
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Many operating systems have some sort of audit trail capabilities as well. Who wrote a file, date/time stampes, etc. But if you work in multiple systems, you will have an audit trail for each, with no communication. This makes the flow of work challenging and time consuming to tease apart. It is much easier if all actions occurred in one integrated system. All actions are tracked, and no action is omitted, either by accident or on purppose by a rogue actor.
Everyone. We have seen the consequences of no audit trails, and the results are not pretty: Wasted time, inspectors asking more questions to address the lack of an audit trail, potential fines due to nonconformance with regulations.
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On a traditional shared computing resource it will. It does not on TimeCatchApp. OK, we tested it and there actually is a small decrease in speed, but it is not noticeable by the user.