Forensic Accountants + Bankruptcy Filing: The Challenge
As forensic accountant, preparing bank statements for bankruptcy filing is a common but time-consuming task. Bankruptcy attorneys and filers need 6+ months of bank statements for means testing, Schedule I/J preparation, and trustee review in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 cases.
How BankScan AI Helps Forensic Accountants with Bankruptcy Filing
Bulk-convert bank statements into structured spreadsheets for pattern analysis, timeline reconstruction, and expert witness reporting. For bankruptcy filing specifically, BankScan AI extracts Current Monthly Income (CMI) for means test, payments to creditors in the 90 day automatically.
How Forensic Accountants Handle Bankruptcy Filing
When preparing bank statements for bankruptcy filing, forensic accountants need to Forensic accountants receive large volumes of bank statements through court orders or client disclosure. They convert statements to structured data, b. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: transaction tracing, fund flow analysis, structuring, Benford's Law analysis.
How It Works
Upload bank statement PDFs
Supports all major banks. Upload 6 months of statements for means test (CMI calculation); trustees may request up to 2 years to identify preferential or fraudulent transfers of statements for bankruptcy filing.
AI extracts what you need
Our AI extracts Current Monthly Income (CMI) for means test, payments to cre — formatted for forensic accountants workflows.
Complete your bankruptcy filing work
Download Excel files ready for bankruptcy filing. Income averaged over 6-month look-back period per means test form (B122A/B122C); expenses categorized per Schedule J; transfers over $600 in prior 2 years identified for SOFA
Supported Banks
BankScan AI works with all major UK and US banks, including:
Features for Forensic Accountants — Bankruptcy Filing
- Built for Forensic Accountants — Saves 4-8 hours per investigation on initial data extraction, allowing forensic accountants to focus on analysis rather than data entry across cases spanning hundreds of statements
- Software compatible — Output works directly with CaseWare, IDEA Data Analysis, Excel with Power Query
- Built for Bankruptcy Filing — Convert bank statements to Excel for quick means test analysis, income/expense categorization, and complete financial disclosure required by bankruptcy courts.
- Key data extracted — Current Monthly Income (CMI) for means test, payments to creditors in the 90 days pre-filing (preferential transfers), insider payments in prior year, cash on hand at filing date
Compliance: Forensic Accountants + Bankruptcy Filing
When forensic accountants prepare bank statements for bankruptcy filing, specific compliance requirements apply.
- Forensic accountants must follow evidence handling procedures that maintain chain of custody for court admissibility. They are bound by CPD requirements under ICAEW, ACCA, or CIMA, and expert witness reports must comply with Civil Procedure Rules Part 35 or Criminal Procedure Rules Part 19.
- Legal basis: 11 USC section 707(b) (means test for Chapter 7); 11 USC section 521 (debtor duties including document production); Bankruptcy Rules 1007 and 4002
Bankruptcy Filing — Built for Forensic Accountants
Bankruptcy petition triggers automatic stay immediately; however, required documents (including bank statements) must be filed within 45 days or the case may be dismissed
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