About the entity audit
Learn how the entity audit records actions and events for an entity in Moody's for Compliance, showing who performed each action and when the system processed it to support accountability and traceability.
The entity audit provides a transparent, chronological record of all significant actions and events associated with an entity in Moody's for Compliance. It helps compliance teams, analysts, and auditors understand how entity-related data has changed over time, ensuring accountability and traceability.
Events are displayed with the most recent entry first. Each entry includes the time the event was processed and who or what performed the action. For example:
User actions display the user's name.
Assessment workflow actions display the assessment name.
Learn how to view and export an entity audit.
Chronology in the entity audit
The entity audit lists events in the order they were processed by the system, beginning with the most recent. Although each entry includes a timestamp, the list reflects the system's processing order, not necessarily the moment the event originally occurred.
Because of this:
Timestamps may appear out of order if updates arrive at different times from external systems or background processes.
The audit reflects when the system received and processed the data, which may differ from the source system's recorded time.
Related events are correlated by the system. When one change directly causes another event, for example, a monitoring update that triggers a downstream workflow action, the originating change is always recorded before the resulting event in the audit. This ordering is guaranteed even if the timestamps differ.
This approach ensures that every change is captured accurately, even when data originates from multiple connected systems or asynchronous processes.