How money actually moves through a trust account

01 · Trust Money Flows, Receipts & Disbursements · Masterclass · 14 min

Every dollar that enters trust arrives for a specific, identifiable reason — a sales deposit, a rental bond, weekly or fortnightly rent, an owner contribution for maintenance — and every dollar that leaves must be traceable back to that same reason with a proper authority attached. The discipline that separates a well-run trust account from a fragile one isn't complexity, it's consistency: the same receipting process…

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