Audit Trail By User and Process

All plans evolve over time.  Planning systems that focus purely on results, don’t reveal the process that individual managers went through in setting targets; the actions that were going to be required; and just as important, the reasons why.

Similarly, knowing what works in a plan and what doesn’t is extremely valuable.  This requires plans to record what activities were carried out, who did them, how they were financed, and whether the assumptions made about the business environment were correct.  All of which must be available for future reference when reviewing past results.  Even knowing where a course of action failed is useful information, providing the lessons are learned and history is not allowed to repeat itself.   Because of this the ability to track change – whether that is data or structures is essential. 

All data and structures held by CorPeuM is tracked in terms of how it was entered and modified throughout the different processes.  With data, each task in a process stores its modifications and adjustments to existing values as increments, together with information about process, task, user and time of change. This means that a task in a process will never overwrite the values collected by a previous task or other processes, but it will store the difference with the previous value. This way of storing values allows for a full audit trail of every value in the system and also provides full or partial roll-back of a process.

For structures, CorPeuM tracks how model definitions have changed over time.

All of this change information can be used in reports so that users can see the impact of change from one period to another and how summary results have been impacted by a structure or accounting changes.

CorPeuM Benefit

CorPeuM allows users and management to see the story behind each and every number.