As a real estate paralegal, you will be handling numerous checks. If your firm is acting as escrow agent for a real estate transaction, you will be receiving deposit checks, and if a problem should occur at closing, founds may be escrowed to cover the cost of repairs yet to be completed. Your firm also may be acting as closing agent and thus will have the responsibility of disbursing funds to realtors, lenders, title companies, and so forth. Nothing that these funds are not to be commingled with regular office funds and that you will be handling numerous transactions at the same time, what is the best way to assure that all incoming checks and all disbursements are handled properly?