# Audit Trail

- URL: https://www.usewisecost.com/help/reports-and-audit-trail/audit-trail
- Audience: Admins
- Last updated: 2026-09-19
- Part of the WiseCost Help Center: https://www.usewisecost.com/help

> The WiseCost Audit Trail is an immutable log of every change, with old and new values, filters by date, user, entity and action, and a CSV export.

The Audit Trail in WiseCost is an immutable record of every change in your company, with the old value and the new value of each one. Open **Audit Trail** in the sidebar, filter by date, user, entity or action, and click **Export CSV** to hand it to an auditor. Nothing in it can be edited or deleted.

**Who can do this:** an Administrator.

## What it records

- Time entries: created, edited, deleted, and who keyed them, including entries made on someone's behalf.
- Timesheets: submissions, approvals, rejections and reopenings.
- Labor Distribution: posted entries and reopened periods.
- Settings: every change in **Company Setup → Company settings → Compliance**, with its old and new value.
- API keys: created and revoked.

## Find a change

1. Open **Audit Trail** in the sidebar. It is its own page, at the same level as Reports and Company Setup.
2. Filter by date range, user, entity or action.
3. Read the **Old value** and **New value** columns of the row.

[Screenshot: Audit Trail table with old and new values for every change]

## Export it

Click **Export CSV** to download the filtered records.

## Why it matters

An auditor does not only ask what your records say. They ask whether someone could have changed them quietly. With an immutable trail, every correction is visible: who changed what, when, and what it said before. That applies to a DCAA floor check and to the internal controls the Uniform Guidance expects behind time and effort records.

## Common questions

### Can an admin delete or edit an Audit Trail record?

No. The Audit Trail is immutable for everyone.

### Where did the Audit Trail go? It used to be under Company Setup.

It is now its own item in the sidebar, **Audit Trail**.

### Can I see who changed a compliance setting?

Yes. Every change on the Compliance tab is recorded with the user, the old value and the new value.

## Further reading

- [DCAA Timekeeping Requirements: What Auditors Actually Check and How to Pass](https://www.usewisecost.com/blog/dcaa-timekeeping-requirements-auditors-check)
- [When DCAA Sends an IPA: Answering Document Requests Before They Cost You](https://www.usewisecost.com/blog/dcaa-ipa-audit-document-requests)