Reporting · The report content · Element

The interpretation

What the change means, which is the part only you can supply.

The part

What it is

Numbers handed over without interpretation are interpreted by the recipient, and each will reach a different conclusion.

Interpretation is also where credibility is built, because it can be checked against what happens next.

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.