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What is "RC"?
When manually matching, Total Lockbox Applied records are matched to this transaction type
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What is US Bank?
It's the bank where we have the majority of our accounts.
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What are Outstanding checks?
In general, they're the only things that should be in the A/P Clearing accounts at the end of the month.
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What is Chatham?
It's the name of the debt management system we use to store our loan documents. We also reconcile most of our debt to this system.
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What is "1-6"?
Escrow accounts begin with these two digits.
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What is data or transactions?
If an A/R Clearing account is out of balance the most likely reason for it would be that the account is missing this.
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What is an operating account?
Most properties have 2 types of accounts. A lender controlled "lockbox" account and this.
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What is cash?
A/P Clearing account balances appear in this line of the balance sheet
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What is original principal?
It's the principal balance reflected in account 20005.001.
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What is Restricted Cash?
Escrow accounts appear in this section of the balance sheet.
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What is "RO"?
If a check is returned NSF, the journal entry recording the charge back to the A/R Clearing account would be matched with this transaction type.
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What is 9?
In general, a lockbox account at PNC bank would have a GL account number ending in this digit.
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What is ACH payments?
Accounts payable records two main types of payments in the A/P Clearing accounts: checks and this electronic payment option.
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What is interest expense?
Generally we reconcile 4 types of debt balances. This one is the only type that relates to the income statement.
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What is a tax escrow?
The most common type of escrow we have.
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What is 30?
For an A/R Clearing reconciliation to auto-verify, it must be in balance and have no unmatched transactions older than this many days.
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What is a BAI file?
It's the type of file received from each of banks on a daily basis. The file includes the previous day's bank transactions and account balances.
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What is a PN?
For external wire payments that are not issued via Accounts Payable, a memo entry is made to the A/P Clearing account using this transaction type denoting a manual check.
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What is floating-rate?
There are two interest rate types on our debt. The first is fixed, and the second is this.
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What is a Cash Management Account?
When a property defaults on a loan, some lenders have the right to begin diverting receipts directly to their own account, creating a special type of escrow called this.
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What is JJ?
If an A/R Clearing account has a debit balance, what is the most likely transaction type that is needed to bring the balance to zero?
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What is a zero balance account, or ZBA?
When an account sends all excess funds to another account and never maintains a balance, it is called this type of account, or these three letters.
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What is 2?
In general, an A/P Clearing GL account number for a Bank of America bank account would end in this digit.
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What is Accrued Interest?
To record interest accruals, we debit interest expense, and credit this account.
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What are reserves?
These are specific purpose escrows sometimes required by the lenders, but instead of escrows, they are called this.
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