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.