14. The software product of claim 11 , wherein the consent indication corresponds to consent to perform an auditing action for the electronic document.
11. A software product embodied in a non-transient machine-readable medium, the software product comprising instructions operable to cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising: generating a consent statement relating to an electronic document tethered to a document control system; transmitting the consent statement to a client that is authorized to access the electronic document; receiving, from the client and in response to the consent statement, a consent indication that represents an affirmative response to the consent statement; modifying, based on the consent indication, actions-taken information associated with the electronic document, the actions-taken information describing actions taken with respect to the electronic document; combining and signing the electronic document and the modified actions-taken information to form a signed document that includes the modified actions-taken information and that can be accessed independent of the document control system.