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How Three-Way Reconciliation Helps Every Aspect of your Business
How Three-Way Reconciliation Helps Every Aspect of your Business
Mary Anne Harris
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Time to Take Action: Updating Processes to Implement ALTA Best Practices 4.0
The American Land Title Association (ALTA) released its ALTA Best Practices Framework version 4.0 in January, highlighting updates.
Mary Anne Harris
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Using an Expert Bookkeeper Can Safeguard your Trust Accounts
Using an expert bookkeeper can safeguard your trust accounts.
Mary Anne Harris
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3 Steps to Assessing Your Need for Outsourcing
Many businesses outsource certain tasks for a whole host of reasons. Title agencies are no different.
Mary Anne Harris
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Year’s End is a Time to Reflect on What’s Important and Look Ahead as Well
Admittedly, it’s been a tough year for many in the title and settlement services industry. The contrast between the chaotic, high volume...
Mary Anne Harris
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The Audit Predicament in Title Insurance: Multiple Audits, Multiple Underwriters
Auditing requirements are inevitable in every type of insurance business, since it is one of the most highly regulated industries in the...
Mary Anne Harris
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When it comes to technology, human expertise is still critical in the title industry.
The title industry has been undergoing a bit of an “automation revolution.” We’ve always been a bit traditional or conservative, owing in...
Mary Anne Harris
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Trial Balance
Our Business Protecting Your Business Trial Balance. We know what it is. A snapshot of files with a non-zero balance. The real question...
Mary Anne Harris
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Review Outstanding Deposits
Outstanding deposits, also known as deposits in transit, are receipts (cash, checks, incoming wires) entered your records / closing...
Mary Anne Harris
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Top Reasons To Conduct Background Checks
What if all you had to do to avoid the costly mistake of hiring the wrong person was as easy as running a background check. There are...
Mary Anne Harris
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Prepare to Escheat to the State
Escheating refers to the power of the state to acquire abandoned or unclaimed property. Escheating becomes relevant in the legal...
Mary Anne Harris
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Verify ACH Blocks On All Trust Accounts
What is an ACH? ACH stands for Automated Clearing House. It is a "batch" processing system that handles millions of payments at the end...
Mary Anne Harris
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Review Earnest Money Being Held
Earnest money is usually paid by certified check, personal check or a wire transfer into a trust or escrow account that is held by a real...
Mary Anne Harris
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Review & Closeout Dormant Accounts
What is a Dormant Account? A dormant account is an account that has had no activity for a long period of time, other than posting...
Mary Anne Harris
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Simplify Escrow, Save Time, Avoid Mistakes
Positively Balanced offers escrow reconciliation service solutions for title agents. Our integrated services provide a customized client...
Mary Anne Harris
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