Style Guides

["Christina Dubach" <christinadubach -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Hi guys,

I graduate with a BA in technical communication in two months.  I have a job
preparing a small finance company (around 100 employees) for their first SAS
70 Audit. I found the dialogue about "log in" "log out" and "log on" "log
off" very interesting.  Someone mentioned choosing a style guide and
remaining consistent.  I searched for style guides, read descriptions, but
there were so many...

I am the only writer in the company, and will probably remain the only
writer for a while.  The departments I will be documenting are:
programming, accounting, billing, collections, data entry, due diligence,
cashiering, etc.  Should I combine several style guides and create my own
guide?  Or is there one style guide that would be perfect for my position?

Basically, I'm a newbie and need all the help I can get.  Can someone point
me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Christina Dubach
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