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Relevance is the degree to which the information is useful for making financial
decisions, therefore, accounting information is important or relevant if it can help with
both anticipating future events and taking action to handle potential ones as well as
providing useful information about past events. Whereas verifiability is the degree to
which the information can be replicated using the same facts and assumptions.
In management accounting, the focus is on providing managers with the
information they require when they need while fair reporting of operations and
financial situation is prioritized in financial accounting.