Different between Account and Contact

[nguyenle]

Contact is a person. Account is an organization.
An Account can have not any Contact or many Contact. A Contact may be not belong to any Account.
Is that right ?

My company's customer may be personal customer (Contact not belong to any Account) or an organization customer (Account have many Contact).
Why can't I create a Case for a Contact (personal customer) ?

Please help me. Thanks.

[nguyenle]

I sold this problem. I can create a Case in Contact module

[mjchin]

I'm not sure I follow, for example

An account contains:
company name, location, contact information (name, phone, email) and items and activities related to the account

A contact contains:
Contact information (name, phone, email), company name (Account), location and possibly, items and activities related to the contact

So by that, the contact is contained in the account. If I have account name information in contact, I can click and goto account page. If I have a contact name in ACcount, I can click and goto the contact page.

Does this make sense?