Accountants + Probate & Estate Administration: The Challenge
As an accountant, preparing bank statements for probate & estate administration is a common but time-consuming task. Executors and solicitors handling probate need to review the deceased's bank statements to value the estate, identify debts, and distribute assets.
How BankScan AI Helps Accountants with Probate & Estate Administration
BankScan AI lets you drag-and-drop any client's bank statement PDF and get a formatted Excel spreadsheet in seconds — ready to import into Xero, QuickBooks, or Sage. For probate & estate administration specifically, BankScan AI extracts Balance at date of death, standing orders and direct debits payable, regular inc automatically.
How Accountants Handle Probate & Estate Administration
When preparing bank statements for probate & estate administration, accountants need to Accountants typically receive client bank statements monthly, reconcile them against purchase and sales ledgers, post adjusting entries, and prepare m. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: nominal ledger, bank reconciliation, trial balance, management accounts.
How It Works
Upload bank statement PDFs
Supports all major banks. Upload Date of death statement plus 6-12 months prior to identify regular commitments, standing orders, and direct debits to cancel of statements for probate & estate administration.
AI extracts what you need
Our AI extracts Balance at date of death, standing orders and direct debits — formatted for accountants workflows.
Complete your probate & estate administration work
Download Excel files ready for probate & estate administration. Date-of-death balance clearly stated, recurring payments listed separately for cancellation, all accounts of the deceased consolidated into one estate summary
Supported Banks
BankScan AI works with all major UK and US banks, including:
Features for Accountants — Probate & Estate Administration
- Built for Accountants — Saves an average of 45 minutes per client per month on bank reconciliation, or 6+ hours per week for a typical practice with 30 clients
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Xero, Sage, QuickBooks
- Built for Probate & Estate Administration — Convert the deceased's bank statements to Excel for fast estate valuation, identification of standing orders, direct debits, and outstanding payments.
- Key data extracted — Balance at date of death, standing orders and direct debits payable, regular income sources, any joint account contributions, gifts made in the 7 years before death
Compliance: Accountants + Probate & Estate Administration
When accountants prepare bank statements for probate & estate administration, specific compliance requirements apply.
- Accountants must comply with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations requiring them to verify client bank transactions. HMRC Making Tax Digital mandates quarterly digital submissions, and ICAEW/ACCA practice standards require accurate record-keeping with full audit trails.
- Legal basis: Administration of Estates Act 1925; Inheritance Tax Act 1984 sections 4 and 171; Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987
Probate & Estate Administration — Built for Accountants
IHT400 must be submitted within 12 months of death to avoid interest charges; probate grant cannot be issued until HMRC receives the IHT forms
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