As an entrepreneur, planning and implementing the accounting system of the business that you hope is going to make you money, it is important that your accounting system must produce information that are going to be useful to you and to those who are reading it.
How do you do this? Information that a business is expected to present must be:
1. Understandable.
Naturally the information produced must be understandable. A guideline is to provide information that people, who are willing to understand it, can understand it: professionals or nonprofessionals. As a business owner, you have to think of the different accounting backgrounds of the different types of people who will be reading your reports and match that accordingly.
2. Relevant & Material
Relevance is the capacity of information to make a difference in a decision. It is important to report and disclose information that is relevant for anyone to make a decision. Accounting information must also deal with things that are significant enough to impact decisions that are made by those who use your financial reports.
3. Reliable
People must depend that the figures...