Contacts on my Mac won't sync via iTunes or iCloud onto my 4

Hi, writting this for my Dad. He's recently brought a mac and an iphone 4 for use in his business. He's uploaded all his contact information on contacts on the mac from a Yahoo email account and also off old phones ect...
iCloud settings are set to share contacts etc... but only a handful of the contacts are actually on the iphone. When you look in the contacts settings it seems that the iCloud option isn't showing. I've tried to go down the route of logging out of iCloud etc... but as it starts to threaten to delete data from the mac we're not inclidned to go down this route.
After buying a mac to make working life easier, it's been nothing but a pain so hopefully someone can help him out before he bins it and turns windows back on...

Contacts 'On My Mac' are (as the name suggests), On your Mac, not on iCloud. Move them to the iCloud account and they will then be on iCloud (and thus on the iPhone 4)

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