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TRACEABILITY Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

1. Accounting. Ability of tracking a piece of financial information in recorded data or with an audit trail. 2. Cost accounting. Ability of assigning a direct cost to an activity based on cause and effect relationships. 3. Quality control. Ability in tracing application, location and history of an activity using recorded data. 4. Systems management. Ability of tracking system needs from the system function to all elements performing that function.

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