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IOTA Accounting

Bookkeeping for Florida Attorneys' IOLTA.

A lawyer must hold property of others with the care required of a professional fiduciary. Florida Bar requires specific and detailed bookkeeping and accounting of Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts, IOTA IOLTA. This care is necessary and ordinary for the practice of a Florida Law Firm.

IOTA Accounting

A lawyer must hold in trust, separate from the lawyer’s own property, funds and property of clients or third persons that are in a lawyer’s possession in connection with a representation.

Proper bookkeeping and accounting is necessary with steep penalties to those attorneys failing the requirements.

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At Bridges Capital LLC, professional CPA accounting and bookkeeping for your IOTA.

Failure of a member to timely produce trust accounting records will be considered as a matter of contempt subdivision (d) and (f) of rule 3-7.11, Rules Regulating The Florida Bar.

Summary of Select Requirements
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IOTA ACCOUNTING RECORDS AND PROCEDURES
A separate cash receipts and disbursements journal, including columns for receipts, disbursements, transfers, and the account balance, and containing at least:
  • (A) the identification of the client or matter for which the funds were received, disbursed, or transferred;
  • (B) the date on which all trust funds were received, disbursed, or transferred
  • (C) the check number for all disbursements; and
  • (D) the reason for which all trust funds were received, disbursed, or transferred;
A separate file or ledger with an individual card or page for each client or matter, showing all individual receipts, disbursements, or transfers and any unexpended balance, and containing:

  • (A) the identification of the client or matter for which trust funds were received, disbursed, or transferred;
  • (B) the date on which all trust funds were received, disbursed, or transferred;
  • (C) the check number for all disbursements; and
  • (D) the reason for which all trust funds were received, disbursed, or transferred; and
All bank or savings and loan association statements for all trust accounts.
Minimum Trust Accounting Procedures

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