Compilation of information treated as a unit and permanently stored on a medium.

Description

Legally speaking, nowadays it is determined that magnetic bands, CDs and similar tools with recorded data, should also be considered as documents. Therefore, all laws and regulations regarding documents are applied on this new information carriers without any modifications. (Reference needed)

A document file is a data file which consists of formatted or unformatted text, intended to be read by i.e. a word-processor or a text-editor.

Example

Examples of documents are:

• Budget
• Marketing plan
• Employment contract
• Purchase order
• Requirements specification