AUDIT TRAIL Definition

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AUDIT TRAIL is a step-by-step record by which financial, business, and quality assurance data can be traced to its source. For example: checking the validity of an accounting entry through the step-by-step record by which accounting data can be traced to their source.

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WITHHOLDING TAX usually refers to those taxes that are withheld from an employee's compensation to account for that individuals tax liability on his/her compensation.

VEST / VESTING / VESTED, in law, is to give a secured right of present or future award. An entity has a vested right to an asset that cannot be taken away by a third party, even if physical possession of the asset has not yet been realized.

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