The record · The expectation · Element
The alternative
What was expected to happen instead.
The part
What it is
For a decline: what the organisation expected the opportunity to do without them, and what it expected to do with the released capacity.
The second is the part that is never recorded and is frequently the reason the decline was wrong.
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.