This necessary resource is a how-to guide for creating an effective and efficient accounting department policies and procedures manual. Use this guide as step-by-step plan to prepare a pertinent and accurate accounting manual, determine which format to use, as well as how to best maintain and update information.

This edition includes:

• List of 114 policies that can be dropped directly into a company's corporate policy manual.
• A complete purchasing card procedures.
• A complete document management manual.
• New procedures to address the timekeeping, payroll processing, and pay distribution requirements of a state-of-the-art payroll system.

Table of Contents

• Preface.
• Acknowledgments.
• About the Author.
• About the Web Site.
• Chapter 1. Accounting Manuals.
• Chapter 2. General Accounting Manual.
• Chapter 3. Procedure Statements.
• Chapter 4. Maintaining and Distributing Accounting Manuals.
• Chapter 5. Corporate Policies Manual.
• Chapter 6. Accounting Procedures.
• Chapter 7. Purchasing Card Manual.
• Chapter 8. Accounting Controls Manual.
• Chapter 9. Period-End Manual.
• Chapter 10. Budget Manual.
• Chapter 11. Property Accounting Manual.
• Chapter 12. Forms Manual.
• Chapter 13. Document Management Manual.
• Chapter 14. User Manual.
  Index.