Growth and direction · The rate · Element
The forecast
What is expected next, and on what basis.
The part
What it is
Forecasts inherited from analyst reports carry that report’s assumptions, which are rarely stated and frequently the same ones everyone else is using.
A forecast built from the named drivers is worse-looking and considerably more useful.
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.