Estate, Trust, and Fiduciary Accounting
Fiduciary accounting is the accounting prepared for an estate, trust, or conservatorship. We rebuild it from the bank and brokerage statements. A licensed CPA reviews every file. The diagnostic is $499.
Court format depends on the state. See the format for your state, then confirm it with your attorney. We prepare the accounting you specify. We do not give legal advice, and we do not appear in court.
US-based · CPA-reviewed · Fixed fee per matter · Real records only, never estimates
How the Work Gets Done
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Send us what exists
Bank, brokerage, and card statements for the period, plus whatever is already in the file. Partial records are normal and are not a problem.
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We tell you what can be reconstructed
You get a written diagnostic: what the records actually support, what is missing, and what it would take to close the gaps. The diagnostic is $499 and it credits in full against the reconstruction if you move forward.
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Fixed fee, in writing
You approve the scope and the price before any reconstruction work begins. No hourly billing and no revised estimates partway through.
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You get the accounting
Rebuilt records, reconciled to the statements, with a written Reasoning Log behind every decision and a licensed CPA sign-off. Delivered to you.
What You Get Back
- ✓Reconstructed ledgers for the period, built from the statements
- ✓Reconciliations that tie to those statements
- ✓A written Reasoning Log behind every categorization decision
- ✓An exceptions report naming anything that could not be substantiated, and why
- ✓The accounting itself, in the format you specify
Reviewed and signed off by Jade Wang, CPA.
Where This Usually Comes Up
The pattern is almost always the same. The legal work is ready and the numbers are not.
- ✓Years of activity in an estate and nobody kept books
- ✓A prior bookkeeper, or the decedent, left records that are partial at best
- ✓Beneficiaries are asking questions the current numbers cannot answer
- ✓The matter is stalled and the hours it would take to fix this in-house are worth more spent elsewhere
When the Estate Holds Entities
Holding companies, LLCs, rental partnerships, and operating businesses often sit inside a single estate or a single client structure. Each one carries its own books and its own gaps, kept by different people to different conventions. We reconstruct them and bring them onto one consistent basis, so the reporting underneath the plan holds together instead of being reconciled after the fact.
What We Do Not Do
We do not give legal advice. We do not appear in court. We do not contact the IRS or any tax authority, and nothing we produce is transmitted to one by us. Everything goes to you. Your client relationship and your professional judgment stay yours.
Fiduciary accounting questions
What is fiduciary accounting?
Fiduciary accounting is the accounting prepared for an estate, trust, or conservatorship. It is built from the bank and brokerage statements, not from memory. A licensed CPA reviews the file before it reaches you.
Who prepares a probate accounting?
We prepare the books and the accounting in the format you specify. Your attorney, and the court if one is involved, decide whether that format is the one the matter requires. Confirm that with them.
Where do I see the court format for my state?
State format pages show the sample layouts we already document, with fictitious figures. Start with your state, then confirm the current form with your attorney. The diagnostic is $499 and it credits toward the reconstruction if you move forward.
Have a Matter That Is Stuck?
Thirty minutes with a licensed CPA about one file. If it is not work we should take, we will say so on the call.