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20 business types. Explore your area of work and the records it may leave behind.

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Banks

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  • Review, exception-handling and reconciliation procedures

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Payment processors

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  • Non-personal review and reconciliation procedures
  • Exception-handling methods; not payment-account or transaction histories

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Insurance carriers

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  • Review, exception-handling and reconciliation procedures

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Insurance loss-adjusting firms

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  • Review, exception-handling and reconciliation procedures

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Insurance brokerages

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  • Review, exception-handling and reconciliation procedures

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Mortgage brokerages

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  • Review, exception-handling and reconciliation procedures

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Credit-reporting agencies

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  • Non-personal data-quality and matching procedures
  • No individual credit files, scores or account details in an enquiry

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Accounting and tax practices

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  • Review, exception-handling and reconciliation procedures

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Payroll service companies

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  • Review, exception-handling and reconciliation procedures

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Investment management firms

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  • Review, exception-handling and reconciliation procedures

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Law firms

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  • Analytical reasoning, alternatives and review decisions

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Court-reporting businesses

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  • Analytical reasoning, alternatives and review decisions
  • Speaker, timing and correction metadata

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Patent-search firms

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  • Prior-art evidence and claim comparisons
  • Relevance assessments and search reasoning
  • Client briefs, technical queries and review feedback
  • Analytical reasoning, alternatives and review decisions

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Translation agencies

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  • Translation memories, terminology and alignment
  • Reviewer corrections and translation feedback
  • Client briefs, technical queries and review feedback
  • Analytical reasoning, alternatives and review decisions

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Market-research companies

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  • Interview and focus-group recordings
  • Survey responses and coded research findings
  • Client briefs, technical queries and review feedback
  • Analytical reasoning, alternatives and review decisions

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Management consultancies

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  • Working analyses and recommendations
  • Client briefs, proposals and final deliverables
  • Client briefs, technical queries and review feedback
  • Analytical reasoning, alternatives and review decisions

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Architecture practices

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  • Design drawings, BIM and revisions
  • Alternatives, design reviews and specification decisions
  • Client briefs, technical queries and review feedback
  • Analytical reasoning, alternatives and review decisions

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Engineering design consultancies

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  • Calculations, models and simulation assumptions
  • Design drawings and review revisions
  • Client briefs, technical queries and review feedback
  • Analytical reasoning, alternatives and review decisions

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Industrial design studios

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  • Prototype drawings and design revisions
  • Usability observations and product feedback
  • Client briefs, technical queries and review feedback
  • Analytical reasoning, alternatives and review decisions

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Product testing and certification companies

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  • Test results and certification evidence
  • Nonconformities and corrective-action reviews
  • Client briefs, technical queries and review feedback
  • Analytical reasoning, alternatives and review decisions

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