Question of the Month: How do policies and procedures fulfill requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley and other financial regulations?

This month’s highlight was the release of the Finance Policies, Procedures & Forms manual. Our newest product is the result of a nearly year-long effort of intensive research, writing, editing, and reviewing. The Finance Manual was finally ready for production and shipping last week. We are very pleased with this new product, and the response from our customers, to date, has been tremendous.

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What a year this was. A new policies and procedures manual. New training courses. And, most importantly, over 50 articles on various aspects of business management and process improvement. Our goal here at Bizmanualz is to help you streamline your processes and improve your business performance. If our articles help you achieve this in any way, we feel like we have succeeded.

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Question of the month: Why is a phased approach useful when you are writing policies and procedures for your organization?

Our topics in November revolved around writing policies and procedures.

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In past articles we have explored the very basic reasons why an organization needs procedures.  My belief is that, no matter how many complex explanations you give or long lists you create, it all boils down to four basic reasons: 

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Last week we brought up the topic of why we need procedures. While some would answer this question by providing very long lists of reasons why, these lists sometimes aren’t useful. They are too long to really remember and absorb, plus there is too much overlap and redundancy. I, however, listed four very basic reasons that I feel demonstrate why we should develop procedures

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It’s finally here ! The long awaited blog to manage Bizmanualz articles, news and special offers is up and running. The main motivation behind implementing this blog was to help web visitors like you more easily find the information you want at www.bizmanualz.com.

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User-friendly blog aimed at helping web visitors to www.bizmanualz.com more easily find articles, tips and special offers on policies, procedures and processes.

St. Louis, MO – November 17, 2006. Bizmanualz, Inc, a business publications and consulting company based in Clayton, Missouri, today announced the launch of a weblog titled Policies, Procedures and Processes Blog. This is in response to a growing demand from visitors to the Bizmanualz website for a simplified interface to its rich collection of articles on writing policies and procedures, process improvement concepts and implementation tips.

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Any old policy and procedure format saves time by not having to start from scratch, right? Well, not necessarily.

Using a weak starting point can hurt employee usability, introduce confusion and user-error, and may not

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