traceability

Definition 1

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

Definition 2

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

Definition 3

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

Definition 4

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