2024 Fiduciary Accounting for Estates and Trusts

Financial accounting for trusts and estates is one of the least understood branches of accounting. It is not particularly concerned with recording income and expenses but is obsessed with determining whether receipts and expenditures are assigned to income or principal/corpus. This course will dive into this tricky area and provide a reporting guide for fiduciary accounting.

Presented by Arthur Werner

• Delivery Format: Live Webcast Replay

Practitioners and members in industry seeking to gain a better understanding of fiduciary accounting of estate and trusts issues

• Apply a working knowledge of the financial accounting rules for estates and trusts
• Identify planning and potential pitfalls

• 10 Principles of Tax Accounting for Trust Income
• Entity accounting income and Form 1041
• Uniform Principal and Income Act
• Discretionary Power to Adjust
• Allocations between principal and income
• Trust accounting issues

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