Whose money is this?
Trust accounting demands an exact answer to a fundamental question: whose money is this?
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Single Ledger Accounting. Available only through our firm.
Single Ledger Accounting connects your business books and personal finances in one ledger—from everyday transactions and source documents through to your personal tax return.
Our accountants use CleanBooks, the AI native platform we built around that methodology, to understand how those pieces affect one another and what they mean for you.
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A connected financial picture
The answer can change when you consider everything together.
Can the business afford an expansion? Why does cash feel tight when profits are strong? How would a purchase affect your taxes, borrowing, and plans for the year?
Each question involves more than one balance or report. Answering it means understanding the relationships between them.
Single Ledger Accounting gives our team a connected view of the facts. We can examine a decision in the context of your business and the goals it is meant to serve.
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We built our accounting around those relationships.
A payment is connected to an obligation. An asset has a purchase history, a tax treatment, and a role in your business. A recommendation depends on facts that may change.
Our methodology keeps those connections available to our accountants and AI. Information gathered for one piece of work can inform the next question, without starting the investigation over.
That is the value of Single Ledger Accounting: a growing understanding of your finances that our team can put to work for you.
Behind every conclusion
An answer you can examine.
When we bring you a conclusion, you should understand how we reached it.
We explain which facts support it, which assumptions affect it, and what could change it. If information is missing, we tell you what we need. If there are competing choices, we explain the tradeoffs.
You can ask questions of the people responsible for the work.
What decision are you working through?
Tell us about your business, what you want to accomplish, and the questions your current accounting leaves unanswered.
We’ll discuss how our firm could help.
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Washington trust accounting. Scrutinized rule by rule. Built into code.
Trust accounting demands an exact answer to a fundamental question: whose money is this?
We put Washington trust accounting requirements through rule-by-rule scrutiny: what each requires, how it applies, and how the software must enforce it. That work is built into deterministic code—explicit calculations and controls, not AI judgment calls about whether the numbers reconcile.
Three balances. To the penny.
Monthly three-way reconciliation compares the adjusted bank balance, trust books, and underlying client and other separately identified balances to the penny. Individual client balances are checked separately, so a matching total cannot hide one client’s shortfall behind another client’s money.
Controls before money moves.
The controls reach beyond reconciliation. Entries that would mix firm and client funds are rejected. Transfers from trust require explicit approval with supporting documentation.
A history that stays intact.
Corrections preserve the original record, so the history remains available for review.
The rigor goes beyond the normal workflow. Our test suite challenges the safeguards with attempts to bypass application controls, insert unattributed trust entries, and alter protected records. This is Washington trust accounting expertise translated into code—and challenged at the points where it matters.
See how our trust accounting works