Estateably

Managing assets and liabilities in your files

Inventory

This article walks through the general steps to add an asset, with consideration to how initial assets of a trust are added.

Adding an Asset

There are two ways to add an investment account in Estate Accounting — with holdings for detailed tracking, or without holdings for a simpler cash-only approach. This article covers both…

Add an investment account (Estates)

How to add original and trustee/executor/guardian-purchased holdings to Estateably.

Adding Holdings

This article walks through the general steps to add a liability, with consideration adding initial liabilities of a trust.

Adding a Liability

Import holdings for a deceased investment or bank account using a PDF statement that covers the date of death. This article walks through each step of the import process.

Import a Date of Death statement

How to manage inventory items in Estateably

Getting Started

Add a GIC that existed at the date of death as an inventory asset. This article walks through the steps and explains what is recorded.

Add a GIC

Record accrued interest separately from a GIC asset. This article explains how to add an accrued interest asset and where it appears in your file.

Track accrued interest for a GIC

This article explains how to liquidate a GIC within an account.

How to Liquidate a GIC

Answers to common questions about recording, tracking, distributing, and liquidating Guaranteed Investment Certificates (GICs) in Estateably.

GIC FAQs

Distribute a GIC to a beneficiary from either the Assets tab or the Distributions page. This article covers both methods and explains what happens after distribution.

Distribute a GIC

A series of articles that guide you on how to add and manage GICs

Adding and Managing GICs

How to export an excel file of all inventory items added to Estateably.

Exporting an inventory (Estates)

How to generate a report that shows all the funds in managed/estate/trust accounts as of a certain date.

Cash on hand reporting (Estates and Trusts)

How to generate a report that shows all the inventory currently held by an Estate, Trust, or POA.

Inventory as of today reporting

How to generate a report that shows the deceased's inventory as of the date of death.

Original asset reports (Estates)

How to generate a report that shows all the liabilities in an Estate as of the current date.

Unrealized liability reporting (Estates)

How to generate and manage inventory reporting

Inventory Reporting

By default all inventory items pass through the estate. This article explains how to mark an asset or liability as passing outside the estate — for example, insurance or registered…

Set an asset or liability to pass outside the estate

Can I enter holdings by total value instead of calculating per-unit costs?

Record an asset that is to be given in-kind to a beneficiary under the directions of the will, then distribute it from the Distributions tab.

Add and distribute a bequeathed asset

Answers to common questions about recording and managing assets and liabilities in the Inventory section of Estateably, including how to add, categorize, and export inventory items.

Inventory management FAQs

Frequently asked questions about inventory management in Estateably

Inventory FAQs

To record transactions in a deceased's or grantor's bank account, the account must first be managed. This article explains how to manage an account and change its opening balance.

Manage bank accounts (Estates and POAs)

To record transactions in a deceased's or grantor's investment account, the account must first be managed. This article explains how to manage an account and change its opening balance.

Manage investment accounts (Estates and POAs)

How to perform actions on holdings such as purchases, sales, stock splits, ACB adjustments, and ROCs.

Corporate actions and holding options

When adding a holding, use the Asset Class and Sub-class fields to classify it correctly for reporting. This article explains when each field is required and lists all available values.

Select the right asset class and sub-class for a holding

How to track payments to a loan, line of credit, or other liability in Estateably.

Accounting for an active loan/line of credit

How to manage bank and investment accounts

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