Evidence your auditors actually want

Screenshots of dashboards are not reconciliation evidence. Timestamps, source files, and signer identity are.

Hands writing notes on printed reports

When external or internal auditors ask for reconciliation packs, they are testing whether a competent outsider can reconstruct the close. A screenshot without source files, timestamps, or who approved an exception fails that test.

Strong packs include the source extract, the matching run log, open-item listing with ages, adjustment journal with dual control, and a short narrative for material breaks. Automation helps only if it retains that trail.

Before your next review cycle, pick one high-volume ledger and assemble the pack as if you were the auditor. Whatever you cannot reconstruct in under an hour is your next control project.

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