Multiple devices, best to have one account or two?

Hi
I have an iphone 5, ipad 4, ipad mini and an iPhone 4. I use the iphone 4 as a phone for my self employed work so it has to have separate contacts etc. the other three are for personal use so I don't mind them all being on one account. Is it best to set the "work" phone up on a new iTunes account? Or can I configure them in a way that not everything is shared? Such as appointments notifications etc?
Thanks for any help provided

Maybe you've answered this already and I didn't get it, but I shared an app store/iTunes account with my boyfriend since I owned any I product and we are broken up now but tied together by this account. We use the account under his Apple ID without realizing the consequences but we both contributed financially quite a large sum of money over the years and now we don't know how to separate the account so that we no longer need to communicate. It wouldn't be such a big issue separating the financial part but the problem is that people suck and are immature and think changing the password on each other is acceptable when it is in fact not. I currently have control of the account and password out of necessity but it is not how I want things. Maybe you can tell that I'm talking about the other party when I talk about the password changer and childish tantrum thrower. Let's call him "John Doe". I'm not perfect either granted, not that that has anything to do with this. The point is this...Just be warned people that there are consequences for opening a joint iTunes account under one person's personal Apple ID. 8 to 10 years ago though, did anyone really know this stuff? Especially us tech challenged who are basically poking at things with sticks. We totally poked the wrong thing. Does anyone know how we can separate this and ourselves peacefully and without losing anything? Personally it seems to me that Apple should be able to duplicate an account and allow one person to open it under their own ID in such a case but so far that doesn't seem to be possible.

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From what I understand you want to all use the same iCloud Apple ID for:
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- Calendars (diary)
- Photo Stream
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4895

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