The missing link between BPM and accounting: Using event data for accounting in process-oriented organizations

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 213-246

  Sonnenberg, Christian ^a   Brocke, Jan vom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN   (Liechtenstein)

Author keywords

Accounting; Activity based costing; Event driven BPM; Process accounting model; Process analysis; Process audit; Process mining; Process performance; Process simulation; Resource event agent

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900458125     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BPMJ-12-2012-0136     Document Type: Article

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