A useful guideline in designing policies and operating procedures that facilitate good strategy execution is .
O to prescribe enough policies and procedures that little is left to chance in performing value chain activities--employees should have no leeway to do things in a manner that deviates from the company's best practices standard.
O that strictly-enforced policies work better than loosely-enforced policies.
O to prescribe enough policies to give organizational members clear direction and to place desirable boundaries on their actions, then empower them to act within these boundaries however they think makes sense.
O to create a sufficiently comprehensive set of policies and procedures that each company employee will know exactly how daily operations are to be conducted in his/her assigned area of responsibility.
O that more policies/procedures work better than few policies/procedures and that strict enforcement always beats lax enforcement.

Swathmore clothing corporation grants its customers 30 days' credit. the company uses the allowance method for its uncollectible accounts receivable. during the year, a monthly bad debt accrual is made by multiplying 3% times the amount of credit sales for the month. at the fiscal year-end of december 31, an aging of accounts receivable schedule is prepared and the allowance for uncollectible accounts is adjusted accordingly. at the end of 2012, accounts receivable were dollar 586.000 and the allowance account had a credit balance of dollar 50,000. accounts receivable activity for 2013 was as follows: the company's controller prepared the following aging summary of year-end accounts receivable: prepare a summary journal entry to record the monthly bad debt accrual and the write-offs during the year. (if no entry is required for a particular event, select "no journal entry required" in the first account field.) prepare the necessary year-end adjusting entry for bad debt expense. (if no entry is required for an event, select "no journal entry required" in the first account field.) what is total bad debt expense for 2013? calculate the amount of accounts receivable that would appear in the 2013 balance sheet?