Patent ID: 8489705

Claim:
A report management system comprising: a first receiving unit that receives input of report identification information assigned to each of one or more reports to be collectively delivered to a receiver from a sender; an assigning unit that assigns group identification information to a group of the one or more reports to be collectively delivered, the group identification information being assigned to identify the group; a registration unit that registers, in a storage unit, the group identification information and each piece of the report identification information, received by the first receiving unit for each report of the group having the group identification information, in such a manner that the group identification information and the report identification information are associated with each other; an attached document generation unit that generates an attached document that is a document including the group identification information and is to be attached to a report delivered to the receiver from the sender; a second receiving unit that receives, upon reception of one or more reports by the receiver from the sender together with the attached document, input of the group identification information included in the attached document received by the receiver, and the report identification information of each of the one or more reports received by the receiver together with the attached document; and an output unit that outputs information indicative of a result of comparison made between the report identification information stored in the storage unit in association with the group identification information received by the second receiving unit, and the report identification information received by the second receiving unit.