Seeing Benefits of Atomic Design Methodology

The Atomic Design Methodology is a very useful way to think about "graphs" and "digital" and "information" and "models".  Tools that a business professional will use need to be special purpose tools not general purpose tools.  Below you see a set of financial reporting frameworks that start small then grow larger and more complex and sophisticated.  But the foundation, the fundamental model of each is the same.

Rather than end up with a kludge; I have consciously attempted to remove all possible accidental complexity from my Seattle Method framework.  All of these working proof of concepts are available on GitHub. You can also see actual reports using the reporting frameworks in my set of reference implementations of reports.

Here are some things to fiddle with to help accountants, auditors, and analysts think about how to work with digital information: (To see the specific view I am showing, from the hierarchy on the LEFT, in the "Reporting style specific rules" section, click on "Types and parts", and then select the "Graph" view)

Accounting Equation (Base double entry accounting model upon which all financial reporting frameworks are constructed)


SFAC 6 (Elements of Financial Statements, conceptual framework)

SFAC 8 (Elements of Financial Statement, conceptual framework)

OCC (Very simple financial reporting framework)


Common Elements (Four Statement Model)


PROOF (Testing tool, calibration tool, proof that all the parts work together effectively within a financial reporting framework)


MINI Financial Reporting Framework (Basic working proof of concept financial reporting framework)

AASB 1060 (Working proof of concept financial reporting framework)


IFRS for SMEs (Working proof of concept financial reporting framework)


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