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Book VII
Chapter 1
Administering
QuickBooks
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Simultaneous Multi-User Access
Turning on Audit Trail Tracking
In versions of QuickBooks prior to QuickBooks 2007, you had to turn on the
audit trail feature. With the recent versions of QuickBooks, however, the
QuickBooks Audit Trail feature is “always on.” You don’t need to do anything
to begin using it.
Producing an Audit Trail Report
To produce an Audit Trail report, simply choose the Reports menu’s
Accountant and Taxes command and then select the Audit Trail command
from the submenu. Figure 1-10 shows a QuickBooks Audit Trail report in a
window. Note that the report identifies both the type of change made and
the person who made the change to the QuickBooks data file.
Figure 1-10:
The Audit
Trail report.
Simultaneous Multi-User Access
Sometimes, you need only a single computer and a single copy of
QuickBooks even though you have several employees using QuickBooks.
For example, if a small business has only an administrative assistant and
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