Financial reporting · The close calendar · Element

The estimates

What is estimated rather than waited for, and within what tolerance.

The part

What it is

Deciding in advance what may be estimated is what makes a fast close possible, and it removes the argument from the moment.

Estimates should be trued up in the following period rather than corrected retrospectively, which keeps the reporting comparable.

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.