2 Inputs
Old Abe considers precisely three inputs in doing all of its accounting, and it will be useful to keep these in mind as we learn more:
Attributions – an association of contributor to percentage of value allocated from the value represented by the project as a whole.
Instruments – an association of an instrument to percentage of value allocated from the value represented by the project as a whole.
Price – a generic "fair market value" provided by the project to its users (Like many concepts, this concept named price has a distinct role in ABE from its traditional role in capitalism).
Valuation – the assessed present value of the project as a whole.
All of these are determined through the process of Dialectical Inheritance Attribution (DIA), which may initially assign values by fiat (following the DIA process for appraisal). Subsequently, these values change by incorporating every new accountable action (in a manner agreed-upon in DIA), as we’ll see next.