Writing Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Business and finance === {{See also|Professional writing|Professional communication}} Writing permeates everyday commerce. For example, in the course of an afternoon, a wholesaler might receive a written inquiry about the availability of a product line, then communicate with suppliers and fabricators through work orders and purchase agreements, correspond via email to affirm shipping availability with a [[drayage]] company, write an invoice, and request proof of receipt in the form of a written signature. At a much larger scale, modern systems of finances, banking, and business rest on many forms of written documents—including written regulations, policies, and procedures; the creation of reports and other monitoring documents to make, evaluate, and provide accountability for decisions and operations; the creation and maintenance of records; internal written communications within departments to coordinate work; written communications that comprise work products presented to other departments and to clients; and external communications to clients and the public.<ref>{{cite book|last=Yates|first=JoAnne|author-link=JoAnne Yates|year=1989|title=Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management|location=Baltimore, MD|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=978-0-8018-3757-9}}{{page needed|date=June 2023}}</ref><ref>Smart, G. (2006). ''Writing the economy: Activity, genre and technology in the world of banking.'' London: Equinox.{{page needed|date=June 2023}}</ref> Business and financial organizations also rely on many written legal documents, such as contracts, reports to government agencies, tax records, and accounting reports.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Devitt |first=Amy J. |title=Textual Dynamics of the Professions: Historical and Contemporary Studies of Writing in Professional Communities |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |year=1991 |location=Madison |pages=336–357 |chapter=Intertextuality in Tax Accounting: Generic, Referential, and Functional}}</ref> Financial institutions and markets that hold, transmit, trade, insure, or regulate holdings for clients or other institutions are particularly dependent on written records (though now often in digital form) to maintain the integrity of their roles.<ref>{{cite book|last=Yates|first=JoAnne|author-link=JoAnne Yates|year=2005|title=Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century|location=Baltimore, MD|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=978-0-8018-8086-5}}{{page needed|date=June 2023}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page