FDM.5:4.3 - Follow the use through the financial effect

Identify the decision or action the output can change and the financial relation or resource consequence that action can establish. Use FDM.1–4 where the position, terms or actual effect is unclear.

For a proposed service, explain the mechanism and assumptions under which the contribution is expected. For an actual service, obtain evidence of the receiving use and effect at the scope claimed. These can have different truth status within the same explanation.

Follow the connection far enough to answer the participant’s question. A loan can provide usable proceeds; an equipment purchase can fail to deliver a working asset; changed demand can defeat the expected return from that asset. The financial service can have supplied its promised result while a later business outcome fails.