Kim Fuller 1-2

Question 1

Before Kim Fuller start to manage his business, he need to identify two kinds of information which is can categorized to accounting information and non-accounting information.

Accounting Information
Accounting Information is a set of financial data indicating an organization's resources, revenues, debts or expenses. Information about accounting information system is responsible for providing timely and accurate financial and statistical reports for internal management decision making, and for external parties such as investors.
In case of Kim Fuller’s, the accounting information that he need to identified are; 2 grind machine workers, 1 truck drive, 1 accountant, and the 2 contracts with bottling companies.

Non-accounting information
Non-accounting information can be results of certain accounting information. The non-accounting information is qualitative, narrative, unaudited and future oriented prose.
In this case study, the non-accounting information that he need to identify are; the old truck, the used grinding machine, three trailers, new grinding machine, personal computer, warehouse, investors (two sisters and one brother), and mortgage.

Question 1: What information will Fuller need to manage the business? Classify thus information in two categories: accounting information and non-accounting information.

The content of financial reports can be divided to accounting and non accounting information. According to Ahmed Belkaoui and Alain Cousineau (1977), accounting information is defined as quantitative, formal, structured, audited, numerical and past oriented material. While non accounting information is defined as qualitative, unaudited, narrative and it is future oriented prose. For accounting information, it can further categorized into 4 different categories:
1. Operating information
2. Financial accounting
3. Management accounting
4. Tax accounting

1.) Operating information
This is the information needed on day-to