if a company has several operational branches for meat and fish and the manager ask me to do comparative analysis to cover the meat only.On top of that my colleague suggests that since the company has diffrenet branches and products, financial statements should caver all the company's activities.

using my knowledge of financial and managerial accounting, general and specific purpose financial reports and various users of accounting info

advise my colleague to approach they should adopt managers requirements and to reflect the department's operations

how am i supposed to answer this question?