Assessing Business Processes by Checking Transaction Documents for Inconsistency Risks

Takafumi Komoto, Kokichi Futatsugi, Nobukazu Yoshioka

2016

Abstract

Business processes can be assessed by checking transaction documents for inconsistency risks and can be classified into two categories. Inconsistency refers to a mismatch between items (product name, quantity, unit price, amount price, etc.) among transaction documents. For any process in the first category, the consistency of any pair of transaction documents in the process is checked, and there is no risk of inconsistency. For any process in the second category, the consistency of some pairs of transaction documents in the process cannot be checked, and there is a risk of inconsistency. This paper proposes a method for the assessment of risk inconsistencies. The assessment can be used to design and evaluate business processes for a company’s internal control over financial reporting. A business process diagram and inconsistency risk detection algorithm for classifying business processes is provided.

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in Harvard Style

Komoto T., Futatsugi K. and Yoshioka N. (2016). Assessing Business Processes by Checking Transaction Documents for Inconsistency Risks . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD, ISBN 978-989-758-190-8, pages 39-45. DOI: 10.5220/0006222000390045


in Bibtex Style

@conference{bmsd16,
author={Takafumi Komoto and Kokichi Futatsugi and Nobukazu Yoshioka},
title={Assessing Business Processes by Checking Transaction Documents for Inconsistency Risks},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,},
year={2016},
pages={39-45},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006222000390045},
isbn={978-989-758-190-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,
TI - Assessing Business Processes by Checking Transaction Documents for Inconsistency Risks
SN - 978-989-758-190-8
AU - Komoto T.
AU - Futatsugi K.
AU - Yoshioka N.
PY - 2016
SP - 39
EP - 45
DO - 10.5220/0006222000390045