The economics · The return · Element

The margin

What that revenue is worth after costs.

The part

What it is

Incremental margin rather than revenue, since a programme driving discounted purchases can raise revenue and lower profit.

Against the full programme cost including the liability accrued in the period.

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.