I reckon there are so many ways to skin a cat in this game, that I could give the ways I do it, and 90% of the controllers on here may disagree with parts of what I say. But the thing is if it works for me then thats ok. The beauty of this job. I suppose my one rule of thumb is you can make anything work, it just depends how hard you want to work.
Oh and the old, "there for the grace of god go you or I" and my favourite and most pertinent in this part of the world, the Golden rule.... He who has the gold makes the rules (thanks Ron King).