Legal bookkeeping for law firms.
Office ledger, payroll and BAS for solicitors, barristers and conveyancers — with Xero kept in step with LEAP, Smokeball or Clio. If your practice runs a statutory trust account, we keep those records in the shape an external examiner expects to find them. If it doesn't, we look after everything else the practice needs just the same.
Nothing left to catch up on. The trust year closes on 31 March — and an examiner's file is built month by month, not in the fortnight before it's asked for.
The whole of your practice's books.
Statutory trust account maintenance
Ledgers kept current and reconciled to the bank every month, without exception.
Quarterly Statutory Deposit
Monitored through the year, calculated at each quarter end, reported to you before it falls due.
Discrepancies and reconciliation issues
Where the ledger and the bank disagree, we find why and set out how to correct it.
End of month process and reporting
A consistent monthly close, with reports that tell you where the practice actually stands.
Liaison with your external examiner
We deal directly with your examiner and auditors, and prepare the file before it's asked for.
Practices without a trust account
Barristers and firms that receive no trust money still lodge Part A by 30 April. We prepare it, and look after everything else the practice needs.
Office account, BAS and IAS
The business side of the firm kept accurate and lodged on time with the ATO.
Payroll and superannuation
Solicitors, paralegals and support staff paid correctly, with STP and super handled.
Xero kept in step with your legal software
Billed fees, transfers and disbursements landing on both sides, so LEAP, Smokeball or Clio and your Xero ledger agree.
Software training and support
We train your team to enter trust and matter transactions properly in LEAP, Smokeball and Clio.
The Statutory Deposit is a quarterly obligation here.
If your practice holds general trust money, New South Wales requires the Statutory Deposit to be recalculated every quarter as those balances move — unlike most other states. It is the requirement general bookkeepers most often overlook, because they have never had to think about it.
It moves with your balances
The amount isn't fixed. As trust money comes and goes through the year, the figure you're required to hold on deposit changes with it.
It is a compliance matter
Getting it wrong isn't an accounting error to tidy up later. It sits with the Law Society, alongside everything else attached to a practising certificate.
We track it, then tell you
We monitor the balances, calculate the figure each quarter and tell you what needs to happen — ahead of the deadline, not after it.
A trust account is not a business ledger.
Most bookkeepers are excellent with a business ledger and have never touched a trust account. The rules governing money held on behalf of clients are different, unforgiving, and enforced by the Law Society rather than the ATO.
A reconciliation left undone is not an accounting problem to catch up on. It is a compliance problem, and it is attached to a practising certificate.
Not every practice runs a trust account. Barristers generally don't, and plenty of advisory and commercial firms don't either. The case for a specialist is different there, but it still holds: Part A falls due on 30 April whether trust money was received or not, and getting a Xero ledger to agree with LEAP, Smokeball or Clio is its own kind of work that a general bookkeeper rarely sees.
That is the whole reason this practice exists. We don't take on general small business work, because staying current in one narrow field takes the attention that would otherwise be spread across many.
- Registration
- Registered BAS Agent 25251799
- Practice management software
- Certified partner — LEAP, Smokeball, Clio
- Accounting software
- Xero Gold Partner
- Principal
- Yuji Hiraizumi — Master of Accounting. Previously held an external examiner licence with the Law Society of NSW.
- Based in
- North Sydney, serving firms across New South Wales
What the firms we look after say.
My law firm has engaged Yuji and the Smart Egg team for the past two years. They have been excellent in streamlining our accounts systems, doing all of our book keeping including trust account statutory requirements and office accounts.
Yuji and his team are very approachable and knowledgeable. Highly recommended.
We have been working with Yuji and his team for several years now and I cannot speak highly enough in support of them!
They have shown diligence and expertise in Smokeball and with our Statutory Trust Accounts. Highly recommended!
Your first consultation is free.
Tell us how the practice runs today and we'll give you an honest read on where the books stand — and whether we're the right fit.
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