Contracts, employment records, land use records, legal opinions and similar records fall into this category. Some records have long-term value in documenting the financial operations of SFU as a public body. For example, records of the University's assets and liabilities, lists of bequests and donations, and the University's budget submissions to the provincial government would have residual fiscal value. This means that the records document the evolution of the powers, organizational structure, programs, policies and procedures, and decisions of the University. Many records are kept for their evidential value including substantive correspondence and subject files, annual reports, policy manuals, organizational charts and the like.
Every record contains information but some records are valuable primarily for their raw data.
An example would be enrolment figures and other types of statistical information. These categories are not mutually exclusive. Records are kept in the archives usually because they have several kinds of residual value.