Straight answers before you call.

A fiduciary accounting is a formal report of every transaction inside a trust, estate, guardianship, or conservatorship over a set period: receipts, disbursements, and everything allocated between principal and income. It’s governed by the trust instrument and state law, has to include every asset, and has to balance to the penny. Courts order them. Beneficiaries are often entitled to them.

California, where nine years of hands-on experience is built specifically around the Probate Code and UFIPA, and Wisconsin, which we’ve more recently begun serving as well.

Yes. California accountings are delivered in the schedule format courts and opposing counsel already expect: a Summary of Account and Schedules A through E, built to drop straight into a GC-400 or GC-405 rather than a spreadsheet that still needs to be translated into that format.

Call or email us to talk through the matter: who’s involved, what the court or beneficiaries require, and what the timeline looks like. From there, we’ll tell you exactly what to send over.

To properly prepare your accounting, we’ll need:

• Bank statements
• Check registers
• Investment statements and trade confirmations
• Final escrow settlement statement(s)
• Any pertinent court documents (inventory & appraisal, previous accountings prepared by others, etc.)

Your records don’t need to be organized before you send them. Making sense of the mess is our job, not yours.

However works best for you: scanned and emailed, mailed or couriered as hard copies, or uploaded to secure online storage.

Original materials are returned within a month or two of receiving them. The finished accounting itself we keep indefinitely, so it’s there if you or the court need it again.

It depends on how much activity there was, how long a period it covers, how quickly documents are available, and how many open items turn up along the way. A quiet single year moves fast. A decade of activity across a dozen accounts takes longer, and we’ll tell you why.

It varies with the complexity and volume of activity involved. Tell us about the matter, and we’ll give you a specific estimate rather than a generic range.

No, and that’s deliberate. We don’t prepare tax returns, audits, or general bookkeeping. Fiduciary accounting for trusts, estates, guardianships, and conservatorships is the entire practice, not a sideline, and it’s what our co-founder has done, exclusively, for nine years.