Is there a prescribed format for business documents between companies?

There is no statutory format, as long as the content is clear. Commonly used documents may also form some writing habits.

Business documents between companies, if they are about administrative affairs, should refer to the Measures for Handling Official Documents of State Administrative Organs (Guo Fa [2000] No.23) and its corresponding format.

Common business documents:

1. Official information: including notice, announcement, notice, meeting minutes, meeting minutes, etc.

2. Communication from top to bottom: including requests for instructions, reports (work reports, reply reports), official letters, replies, opinions, etc.

3. Establish rules and regulations: including various management rules and regulations, decisions, orders and appointments of the enterprise;

4. Accommodate major issues: including briefings, investigation reports, plans, summaries, etc.

5. External publicity: etiquette practical articles, leaders' speeches, invitations, etc. ;

6. Finance and economics: economic contracts, power of attorney, etc.

7. Others: mail, notes, documents (IOUs, IOUs, receipts), etc.

Extended data

Characteristics of business official documents

1. The producers of official documents are legally established commercial organizations.

2. Official documents have specific effects and are used to handle business; Official documents have specific efficiency and influence endowed by administrative organs.

3. Official documents have a standardized structure and format, and all kinds of official documents have clearly defined formats, instead of relying mainly on various "established" formats like private official documents.

Official document classification

According to the field of official activities, official documents can be divided into general official documents and special official documents.

According to the procedures involving state secrets, official documents can be divided into six categories: public disclosure, domestic disclosure, internal use, secret, confidential and top secret.

According to the direction of writing, the issuing organ can divide official documents into three categories: upper writing, lower writing and parallel writing.

According to the nature of content, official documents can be divided into normative, leadership guidance, publicity, manuscript and petition, negotiation and certification official documents.

According to the requirements of processing time limit, official documents can be divided into three categories: ordinary official documents, urgent official documents and extremely urgent official documents.

According to the source, official documents can be divided into two categories: receiving and issuing.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Business Documents