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The broken symmetry method is a standard approach for the calculation of isotropic exchange coupling constants in oligonuclear transition-metal compounds with density functional methods. It is most transparently derived through a mapping approach, where one maps energies calculated for broken symmetry configurations to the expectation value of Ising-type wave functions with a spin Hamiltonian. This approach is generalized to the anisotropic case, targeted at the calculation of zero-field splitting, g matrices, and hyperfine A tensors. Local quantities can be extracted from density functional calculations, which then give the final results by performing a spin projection through an exact diagonalization of a spin Hamiltonian. It is demonstrated how to do this within the strong exchange limit and beyond. In the case of hyperfine A tensors, more local quantities (on-site and off-site tensors) arise than treated in methods described so far. The importance of these off-site tensors in the hyperfine case is dem...