What gets reported · The duplicates · Element
The consolidation
What was merged or aligned.
The part
What it is
Where audiences genuinely need different presentations, aligning the calculation is enough and the presentations can stay separate.
Merging is only worth doing where the audiences are the same, which is less often than it appears.
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.
The other elements in the duplicates
The overlaps
Reports containing the same measures.
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Whether the duplicates produce the same numbers.
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