 Finance Policies and Procedures Manual.  Process Procedures Communication  Communication activities can be built into the processes and procedures, creating communication channels that seem to frequently be lacking in organizations. These communication channels help create and communicate strategic level goals and objectives, which inform departments and segment level goals and objectives (which are also created as part of the control system). This kind of strategic alignment of objectives creates synergistic power in an organization.  COSO certainly fits our philosophy of control systems 