The fundamental qualitative characteristics that financial information must possess to be useful to the primary users of general purpose financial reports—identified in the Conceptual Framework are ‘relevance’ and ‘faithful representation’. Required: a) Provide one example where information is relevant but not faithfully represented. (explain)  b) Provide one example where information is not relevant but is faithfully represented. (explain) c) Provide one example where information is relevant and faithfully represented. (breifly explain)

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The fundamental qualitative characteristics that financial information must possess to be useful to the primary users of general purpose financial reports—identified in the Conceptual Framework are ‘relevance’ and ‘faithful representation’.

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a) Provide one example where information is relevant but not faithfully represented. (explain) 

b) Provide one example where information is not relevant but is faithfully represented. (explain)

c) Provide one example where information is relevant and faithfully represented. (breifly explain)

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Relevance is the primary characteristic of financial information which says that the information provided must be relevant for the decision making process.

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