Types of flowchart

Sterneckert (2003) suggested that flowcharts can be modelled from the perspective of different user groups (such as managers, system analysts and clerks) and that there are four general types:

    * Document flowcharts, showing controls over a document-flow through a system

    * Data flowcharts, showing controls over a data flows in a system

    * System flowcharts showing controls at a physical or resource level

    * Program flowchart, showing the controls in a program within a system

Notice that every type of flowchart focusses on some kind of control, rather than on the particular flow itself.

However there are several of these classifications.

For example Andrew Veronis (1978) named three basic types of flowcharts:

the system flowchart,

the general flowchart, and the

detailed flowchart.