Announcing the New Finance Policies and Procedures Manual

Strengthen compliance, enhance performance, or speed the development of your financial procedures.

Are you still trying to build an internal control system to help you comply with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and other financial regulations? The newest addition to the Bizmanualz Policies, Procedures & Forms product line – the Finance Policies, Procedures & Forms Manual – can provide a big boost in meeting regulatory requirements.

Policies and procedures are listed as key control activities in the COSO publication “Internal Control – Integrated Framework.” Both SEC and the PCAOB point to this COSO document as an example of internal controls that meets SOX requirements.

Easily Customizable Finance Procedures

Why start from scratch when writing your financial policies and procedures to implement internal controls? By researching best practices and key compliance activities, Bizmanualz has done most of the work for you. Besides providing the policies and procedures divided by tabs along functional areas in an easy to use 3-ring binder, all the materials are also provided on CD in Microsoft Word format so you can quickly and easily adapt and customize them to fit your organizational needs.

Although specifically designed to help small and medium sized businesses (which typically lack the resources to create the documentation frequently called for by internal control systems), the Bizmanualz Finance Policies, Procedures & Forms can help companies of all sizes with their compliance efforts, whether it is compliance with SOX, GAAP, or with SEC public company reporting. Plus, the Finance Manual covers important functional areas like Raising Capital, Treasury Management, Financial Reporting and Analysis, Auditing and Controls, and Financial Administration.

Prewritten Financial Procedure Templates for Compliance and Improvement

Since SOX became law, finance and accounting departments in business of all kinds and sizes have been scrambling to develop the required internal controls. Bizmanualz developed the Finance Procedures Manual as not just a not just a ‘how to’ book, but financial processes in the form of customizable procedure templates so your documentation can be dynamic and changeable.

With SOX and other regulatory requirements, the main goal of internal control is compliance. However, companies taking the time and effort to create a control system with compliance as the only goal is doing the bare minimum and, as a result, they are missing an important opportunity. Control systems are an excellent way to manage by objectives and drive performance upward. A well-defined process not only documents activities, but can be continually improved through incorporating objective setting, reviewing results, and corrective actions right into the process.

Speed Your Finance Policies and Procedure Development

Whether your goal is compliance, enhancing performance, a boost in developing documented procedures, or all three, the Bizmanualz Finance Policies and Procedures Manual can help. You can order the new Finance Procedures Manual online at our website at: www.bizmanualz.com or by calling 800-466-9953 (international customers call 1-314-863-5079). Or, to view a complete table of contents and a sample finance procedure, visit the sample page.

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Posted on Monday, March 24th, 2008 under Financial Policies, Writing Policies and Procedures

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