diff --git a/app.go b/app.go
index d899dda..5173745 100644
--- a/app.go
+++ b/app.go
@@ -5612,11 +5612,19 @@ func (a *App) recomputeAwardRefsForCodesAsync(codes []string) {
 // definition / reference-list change, or a bulk ADIF import.
 func (a *App) recomputeAwardRefsAsync() {
 	go func() {
+		t0 := time.Now()
 		n, err := a.RecomputeAllAwardRefs()
 		if err != nil {
 			applog.Printf("award_refs: bulk recompute failed: %v", err)
 			return
 		}
+		// Logged on SUCCESS too, and this is why: "I changed an award and the
+		// column stayed empty" is unanswerable without knowing whether the
+		// recompute ran at all, how long it took, and whether it changed
+		// anything. Zero rows changed is a real answer — the definition matches
+		// nothing in the log — and it looks exactly like a recompute that never
+		// happened.
+		applog.Printf("award_refs: bulk recompute done — %d rows changed in %s", n, time.Since(t0).Round(time.Millisecond))
 		if a.ctx != nil {
 			wruntime.EventsEmit(a.ctx, "awards:recomputed", n)
 		}