Course Title: Diploma in Business Process
Management
Module 4: Reading Data Flow Diagrams
Figure 1:
Bubble symbol depicts an entity or a process
within which incoming data flows are transformed
into outgoing data flows.
Data flow symbol represents a pathway for data
External entity symbol portrays a
source or a destination of data
outside the system
Data store symbol represents where data is stored.
Figure 2:
Customer Bank
Payment Deposit
Cash
receipts
process
Figure 3:
Customer
Cash
1.0 Cash and
Sales register
Clerk tape
Scanned data 3.0
Cashier
Sales data store Sales
2.0 Report
Computer
Deposit slip
and cash
Bank
Inventory data store
Figure 4:
3.0
Customer Compare
Payment cash and
tape with
sales data
1.0 Receipts and
Receive receipts
payment summary
Sales record
Validated
receipts
2.0 Sales
Record summary 4.0
sale Prepare
deposit
Deposit
Sales data
Bank
Inventory data
Figure 5.1: The Context Diagram
Source
A
The
System
B
Destination
Figure 5.2: The level 0 DFD
Source
A
2.0
C
1.0
Data store
D
3.0
Destination
B
Figure 5.3: Diagram 1.0
1.2
A
E
1.1 G
1.3
F
1.4
D
Figure 5.4: Diagram 3.0
D Data store
3.1
H I
3.2
B
Figure 5.5: Diagram 3.1
3.1.1
3.1.2