Doing Minor HOA Financial Operations Right Your community needs to make small purchases for minor day to day operations. What is the best way to accomplish this without a Board member spending his or her own money, or possibly risking fraud from improper controls around petty cash, debit, or credit card usage? First, some local…
Many associations use credit cards or debit cards for handling some expense items. We don’t agree with this practice as it can lead to abuses and fraud. With good planing and budgeting an association should be able to do with out these payment methods. We wanted to take a look at Condo and HOA Debit…
If you live near Denver come join Community Financials at CAI’s Spring Conference. We are a speaker at the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Community Association Institute (CAI) 2019 Spring Showcase and Tradeshow Friday March 15th from 10am – 4pm. We will be teaching a class on Financial Best Practices for the 3:00pm – 4:00pm breakout…
We’re all aware that the economy has a rhythm or cycle and is also referred to as a business cycle. When the cycle is on an upward trajectory people’s financial situation is improving and as the cycle turns downward their financial situation can deteriorate. The U.S. is experiencing the second longest economic expansion in post…
People naturally want to have control over aspects of their life and this is especially true when it comes to money. Boards are made up of people and so boards also want control over money and for good reason they have a fiduciary responsibility to the owners that elected them. If the Board does all…
As if the job of managing a condo, HOA, or other common interest community association wasn’t challenging enough, many self-managed associations are facing additional challenges from increasing and constantly changing state regulations around the country. You have to ask yourself this question when it comes to complying with state regulations: can your self-managed association keep…
Are you the Treasurer at your condo community or homeowners’ association (HOA)? One Treasurer of a professionally managed community I spoke with spends 20 hours a month on this volunteer role. You are not paid, most unit or homeowners don’t know what you do or appreciate how much time it takes. If owners do know…
Your community recently decided to switch management companies or go from “full management” to self-managed or change software systems. Can you keep your Condo or HOA’s financial data during a transition? That is what we’ll discuss in this post. Is there a way to bring your financial and administrative data over from one system to…
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TOPS is the most widely used management and accounting software in the community management (condo and HOA) industry. TOPS Pro, TOPS 212, TOPS IQ or other older variants are their older desktop based software. They are tried and tested and have done a good job for its customers for many, many years. TOPS [ONE] is…
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