traceability definition

traceability

Accounting: Ability to track a specific piece of financial information by means of recorded data or audit trail.

Cost accounting: Ability to assign a cost directly to an activity or cost object on the basis of a cause-and-effect (causal) relationship.

Quality control: Ability to trace the application, location, and/or history of an activity or item by means of recorded data.

Systems management: Ability to track system requirements from a system function to all those elements that individually or collectively perform that function.

traceability is in the Accounting & Auditing, Quality Control & Management and Systems & Methodologies subjects.

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