View Free Sample Policies & Procedures

View free policies procedures examples from all manuals. No obligation, no credit card!

Is Your Management Strategy Working?  Setting Strategy for the New Year is a continuation of your long-term plan of action designed to accomplish a desired set of goals.  Your New Year strategy relates to why and how your plan will work, relative to all the influences upon your company and its activities (in particular, its customers and competitors). Read more →

Your Accounting manual, associated accounting procedures, and accounting documents, establishes your Accounting Management System.  The system is designed to result in improving the effectiveness of your accounting operations and in your ability to satisfy auditor requirements. Read more →

Your Company’s Code of Conduct applies to all employees of your organization including officers, directors, and employees of the company and its subsidiaries and affiliates. Your Code of Conduct is a key governance best practice that guides your business policies, procedures, and practices.  It is in the best interest of your company and its stakeholders that you adopt and implement a Business Code of Conduct to, among other things, help ensure compliance with standards, laws and regulations applicable to all business activities. Read more →

Do you have an instruction manual for your company?  Most small businesses do not, yet most large (fortune 500) companies do.  What does that say about The Importance of Policies and Procedures to your organization?  One thing is clear, if you want to grow into a large enterprise, then eventually you will need a company manual to provide the instruction and guidance your employees require. Read more →

Company manuals are used in many different departments and areas within a company.  The most common type of company manual is your policy and procedure manual, which is used for compliance, control, and communication of your business processes, best practices, and company standards.  Other types of company manuals include your policy manual, individual procedures manuals, and your employee manual.  What company manuals are you using? Read more →

Your policies and procedures manual houses your company best practices, core business process descriptions, and methods and standards for how work is performed.  Creating your manual allows you to focus your company for growth, simplifies training, and eases your ability to scale.

Your procedures manual can be a three ring binder, a folder on a network share drive, or automated and published online using procedures management software like Onpolicy.  What’s important is that everyone understands what constitutes your policy and procedure manual and where a policy or procedure can be found when someone needs it. Read more →

Your policies and procedures provide a baseline of internal control, a starting point for internal training, and a foundation for improvement.  A business without internal controls is at risk of waste, fraud and abuse.  A company without training produces more errors, mistakes, and rework.  And an organization that fails to improve is quickly overtaken by the competition.  Read more →

Example Procedure

If you are planning to write your own policies and procedures manual from scratch, then it helps to have a number of example policies and procedures to guide you to creating your own manual.  There are a number of free sample policies and procedures templates that you can use to start your manual of policies & procedures. Read more →

Your Policy & Procedure Manual is also referred to as a Standard Operating Procedures Manual or SOP manual, which focuses on your critical daily tasks that must get done for your business to continue.  Many people find it difficult to get started, wondering what to say, who should write the SOP manual or what needs to be included?  You don’t need to document everything your business does, just those things that are critical to safe and efficient operations.   What do you need to get started? Read more →

Creating a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Template will allow you to standardize your procedures, get started quickly, and provide fast, easy answers to common SOP questions.  A SOP template will communicate to everyone the procedure format you want to use.  It will provide a handy starting point so you don’t have to stare at a blank page.  And will save everyone a lot of time selecting the font, margins, outlining, and answering questions about your company SOP structure. Download sample SOP Template examples from Bizmanualz. Read more →