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Tips for Creating Your Internal Procedure Documents

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What are the relevant statutory references, and/ The next most important step after creating a
or references to district policy, USFR, etc? procedures document is to maintain it and keep
Where are important files located? Who do you it current. Store the document(s) in a logical and
contact for help? What/where are the resources accessible location. Give yourself permission to
for the task? Does someone need to know when spend time on updates. It is far less daunting to

a task is completed? Who should be notified if make small, frequent updates than to tackle an
something goes wrong? What are the commonly infrequent overhaul. A procedure document is
used websites? What is the estimated time to ever changing and never perfect. Good luck!
complete? (This one is helpful for tasks that seem
simple to complete but actually take a long time, Lisa Smith, Accounting Analyst for Dysart Unified School
or vice versa.) When/why did a process change? District, can be reached at lisa.smith@dysart.org
What are the questions that people frequently ask
you, and what are the answers to those questions?
What are the unusual/infrequent situations and
the resolutions of those situations that you are
not likely to remember one or more years from
now but will wish you had?

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