Basic of Flowchart: Meaning and Symbols

Flowcharts are the best for visually representation the business processes and the flow of a custom-order process through various departments within an organization. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Flowcharts solution offers the full set of predesigned basic flowchart symbols which are gathered at two libraries: Flowchart and Flowcharts Rapid Draw. Among them are: process, terminator, decision, data, document, display, manual loop, and many other specific symbols. The meaning for each symbol offered by ConceptDraw gives the presentation about their proposed use in professional Flowcharts for business and technical processes, software algorithms, well-developed structures of web sites, Workflow diagrams, Process flow diagram and correlation in developing on-line instructional projects or business process system. Use of ready flow chart symbols in diagrams is incredibly useful — you need simply drag desired from the libraries to your document and arrange them in required order. There are a few serious alternatives to Visio for Mac, one of them is ConceptDraw DIAGRAM. It is one of the main contender with the most similar features and capabilities.

How to Build a Flowchart

Comparing ConceptDraw DIAGRAM to Omnigraffle

Comparing ConceptDraw DIAGRAM to Omnigraffle you can see a lot of benefits of ConceptDraw products. First, the main, ConceptDraw applications are cross-platform and available in two independent and concurrent versions for Macintosh (macOS) and PC (Windows). ConceptDraw gives you the per named license, that you can use simultaneously for your both Macintosh and PC, at work and at home. Free access to the ConceptDraw Solution Park offers you the great number of solutions with hundreds of templates and samples, and thousands of ready-to-use vector objects for quick and easy creation diagrams, drawings, illustrations and Mind Maps. Besides, thanks to Ingyre Technology is provided the integration with Microsoft Office applications and capabilities of limitless exchange the information. The ConceptDraw Live Objects technology lets you design the visual dynamically-updated dashboards, the Rapid Draw technology allows creating the diagrams in minutes. The extensive presentation capabilities help you create lush and beautiful presentation slideshows from your ConceptDraw documents.

Audit Flowchart Symbols

The audit is a complex process consisting of defined quantity of steps, which have as a final goal the ensuring of success of a certain business project. It includes the independent examination of data, statements and financial performances of an enterprise for a stated purpose. It is convenient to construct the Audit Flowcharts or Audit Diagrams for visual representation and structuring the audit processes. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming software enhanced with Audit Flowcharts solution from the Finance and Accounting area of ConceptDraw Solution Park effectively helps to draw the Audit Diagrams for accounting, finance and money management, the Audit Flowcharts for fiscal information tracking, financial inventories and documenting Six Sigma, the decision making Flow Charts, etc. This solution provides the powerful drawing tools, numerous templates and samples, and large quantity of vector audit flowchart symbols that greatly facilitate the process of representation the audit steps and audit results, and designing efficient and visually appealing Audit Flowcharts.

Financial Comparison Chart

This sample shows the Bar Chart of the leverage ratios for two major investment banks. The leverage ratio is the ratio of the total debt to the total equity; it is a measure of the risk taken by the bank. The higher of the leverage ratio denotes the more risk, the greater risks can lead to the subprime crisis.

Sales flowchart - Vector stencils library

The vector stencils library "Sales flowchart" contains 62 sales process flow chart symbols.
Use these flow chart icon set to draw your sales flowcharts, workflow diagrams and process charts with the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software.
The sales process flowchart symbols library "Sales flowchart" is included in the Sales Flowcharts solution from the Marketing area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Annotation

Card

Check / audit (diamond)

Check / audit (square)

Collate

Comment / note symbol (brace)

Communication link

Compare (diamond)

Compare (square)

Completed form

Concurrency symbol (fork / join)

Conditional selector

Control transfer

Database

Data input / output

Decision

Decision indicator - No

Decision indicator - Yes

Delay

Direct access storage

Disk storage

Display

Divided process (table view)

Document

Entity (rounded)

Event

Extract

Flow line

Internal storage

Junction symbol

Lined document

Lined / shaded process

Loop limit

Manual file

Manual input

Manual operation

Merge

Multi document

Multi process

Off-page reference - arrow

Off-page reference - incoming

Off-page reference - outgoing

On-page reference/ Inspection point

Page

Paper tape

Predefined process

Prepare conditional

Process step

Reference point

Sequential access storage

Sort

Start (circle)

Start (ellipse)

Stickman pictogram

Stored data

Summary

Tagged document

Tagged process

Terminal point

Title block

Torso pictogram

Used Solutions

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Sales Flowcharts

Bar Graph

You need to draw the Bar Graph? The automated tool can be useful for you. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Bar Graphs solution from Graphs and Charts area of ConceptDraw Solution Park will help you create any Bar Graph.

Social Media Response Management DFD Charts - software tools

ConceptDraw is your tool for driving social integration and managing change across and streamline social media processes of your organisation.This tool keeps the entire team on the same page allowing you to realize your social media strategy, improve the quality of your answers, and minimize the time it takes to respond.

Flow Chart Symbols

The Flowcharts are incredibly useful and popular tool used in science, business, software development, analytics, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, administration, architecture, government, politics, and many other fields thanks to a variety of existing types of flowcharts. A Flowchart is a visual graphical representation of the process, algorithm, or the set of steps taken for problem's solution. Widely used for designing, visualizing and documenting simple and complex processes and programs, they effectively help to understand the process and to find easier the flaws if they are. Each flowchart type supposes the use of its own set of notations for drawing corresponding diagram, which includes the symbols of process, decision, data, document, data base, termination, initiation processes, processing loops, conditions, etc. It is easily design a Flowchart using the special professional flowchart maker - ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagram software with numerous predesigned flow chart symbols grouped in libraries of Flowcharts solution from ConceptDraw Solution Park.

How to Create a Line Chart

Create a Line Chart with ConceptDraw using our tips. Here you can find an explanation of how to create a line chart quickly.

Purchasing Flow Chart. Purchasing Flowchart Example

Purchasing Flow Chart.<br>Purchasing Flowchart Example *

This sample shows the Purchasing Flow Chart Diagram that displays the money flow in the carbon offset sphere. The carbon offsets are the compensatory measures that the companies make for the carbon emissions. You can see on this sample the groups that have interests in the carbon offsets and the money flow after the carbon offset vendors sold the carbon offsets.

Purchasing Flow Chart. Purchasing Flowchart Example

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM Comparison with Omnigraffle Professional and MS Visio

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM comparison with Omnigraffle Professional and MS Visio shows you the significant benefits of ConceptDraw DIAGRAM , which offers varied useful drawing tools, the capability of creation multi-page documents, wide export / import capabilities in graphics formats, integration with Visio and Microsoft Office applications, availability of built-in scripting language and ConceptDraw Solution Park with numerous solutions, vector objects libraries, templates and samples. Business today is conducted with incredible rate and dynamic presentations become very popular. Sometimes while conducting the business, may happen that you can't describe some situation, state, or process with only words. In these cases, it is convenient to include graphics and diagrams associated with the text. This guarantees successful communication with other stakeholders and team members, and faultless understanding the information by them. The combination of words and graphics is an ideal combination, it improves the clarity and removes any doubt. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM helps you easily create any kinds of diagrams and dynamic presentations too.

Scientific Symbols Chart

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is the beautiful design software that provides many vector stencils, examples and templates for drawing different types of illustrations and diagrams.

Mathematics Solution from the Science and Education area of ConceptDraw Solution Park includes a few shape libraries of plane, solid geometric figures, trigonometrical functions and greek letters to help you create different professional looking mathematic illustrations for science and education.

Flowcharts

We have a lot of samples of flowchart diagrams for your needs.

Flowchart Components

The ConceptDraw Flowchart component includes a set of samples and templates. This geathered as flowchart maker toolbox which focused on drawing flowcharts of any industry standards.

Chart Audits. Chart Auditor

Chart Audits, Chart Auditor - Designing the chart auditor can use the audit flowchart symbols from the Audit Flowcharts library for Audit Flowcharts Solution. Moreover it is convenient to use anyone of samples or templates offered by Audit Flowcharts Solution and design its own chart audits and audit flowcharts on the base of them.

How to Draw a Flowchart

A good Flowchart is incredibly helpful for representing and understanding the system and systematic flow of information in the system. That's why its creation requires attention, accuracy, caution and expertise. There are many standardized symbols which can be used in Flowcharts to represent different kinds of steps. The basic flowchart's element is a simple action, which is represented as a box containing description of the action. The flow is shown with arrows between sequential action boxes. The decision is shown as a diamond that contains a simple question to which the answer is 'yes' or 'no' Are you confused on how to draw a Flowchart? ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software will help you in flowchart drawing due to the included templates, samples and vector objects libraries which are offered in great quantity by Flowcharts solution from Diagrams area. Besides you need clearly and accurately define the process boundaries with starting and ending points, and each step in the process, identify time lags and non-value-adding steps.

Circular Arrows

The Circular Arrows Diagrams are very popular in management and marketing. They are the useful way to visualize a sequence of steps, tasks, or events as a circular flow. But how design the Circular Arrows Diagram quick and easy? You will need a powerful software. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM charting and vector drawing software is exactly what you need. Extended with a multi-functional Business Diagrams solution from the Management Area, ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is the best for drawing the Circular Arrows Diagrams.

What is SWOT Analysis in Marketing

What is SWOT analysis in marketing? SWOT analysis gives for analysts, marketing specialists and other professionals the perfect ability to identify the positives and negatives in an organization, as well as in the external environment. The SWOT and TOWS methods were developed for business and industry, they involve the specifying of a project's objective and identifying internal and external causes for accomplishing the project goals. A full awareness about the situation within and around your business can help effectively with both strategic planning and decision-making. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and ConceptDraw MINDMAP software allow professionals to make the situation analysis, to develop strategies and plans for achievement defined objectives, to suppose the possible scenarios of further activity, to see the whole situation at a glance, to create well-designed SWOT and TOWS matrices in minutes. The SWOT and TOWS Matrix Diagrams solution from ConceptDraw Solution Park includes the SWOT matrix samples and templates that allow users quickly create their own SWOT and TOWS diagrams.

Column Chart Software

ConceptDraw Column Chart software allows drawing column charts using predesigned objects or drawing tools. In ConceptDraw Column Chart software you can find a complete set of column chart tools and objects.

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