Budgeting · The strategy check · Element

The stated priorities

What the organisation says it is prioritising this period.

The part

What it is

Drawn from the plan rather than from the budget process, otherwise the check is circular.

Priorities that cannot be connected to any budget line are worth flagging, since they will be delivered from spare capacity that does not exist.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.