Portfolio Desk
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Accounting 7 min read

Ledger assurance

Refusing to edit a posted entry is only worth as much as the assumption that every write went through the application. Assurance is how you demonstrate that, rather than assert it.

  1. 1

    Verify the chain

    Each posted entry carries a hash chained to its predecessor. Verification walks the chain and reports whether it is intact, where the first break is, and when it was last checked.

    Ledger assurance page with chain verification and journal entry tests
    A real screen from the running product, captured against a demo portfolio.
  2. 2

    Run journal-entry tests

    The procedures an auditor performs anyway: postings outside working hours, suspiciously round amounts, entries just under an approval threshold, accounts that woke up after a long silence, and Benford’s law on leading digits.

  3. 3

    Export the evidence

    A standard data export plus the attestation pack, so an auditor can work without a database extract and a phone call.

Worth knowing

Verification runs nightly and every run is retained, so the record shows the chain was checked continuously rather than the once you opened the page. A selection is not a finding — a round number is usually just a round number — and the output says so, because a tool that reports suspicion as fact teaches you to ignore it.

Used alongside

General ledger

Double-entry accounting with append-only journal entries and a tamper-evident chain.
Financial statements

Income statement, balance sheet, cash flow and equity, on accrual or cash basis, with an attestation pack.
Activity & audit log

Who did what, when, and to which record.
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