Aceostrat
What does it say in your Performance Manual? That is the ultimate practical authority.
Not all questions in aviation actually have a precise and/or useful answer and often require the use of common sense to fill in the gaps. What would you set as an AA with an intersection departure? Do you need to correct for humidity and local gravity anomalies? Does a jet aircraft have a critical engine?
If everyone you fly with does a particular thing slightly differently, including trainers, then it probably doesn’t matter. If there is a universally adhered-to standard, then it probably does.
A really good explanatory document is
Getting to grips with aircraft performance. It comes from Airbus but 99% of it is applicable to any aircraft, and gives an excellent insight into why we do what we do most of the time...