Audit Trail

The BDOS audit trail captures information for all critical operations that impact the broker dealer's general ledger. These include:

• Transferring trades from the batch.
• Receiving payment from vendors.
• Paying broker commissions.
• Adjusting broker commissions.
• Writing checks to the internal checkbook.
• Manual journal entries.

Audit Trail - Receiving Payment

The form above shows the initial step in receiving payment and triggering the audit trail. The form below shows the general ledger entries that were automatically generated by BDOS and the initiation of the audit trail dialog.

Audit trail files are automatically named and sent to the a predetermined storage location. Typically, a PDF file is generated using the internal BDOS PDF generator.