Planning and Organizing Personal and Professional Development

The Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal's annual report for 2002 stated that financial irregularity and breaches of the Solicitors' Accounts Rules were the predominant cause of misconduct in around a third of the cases it heard. This book offers a comprehensive guide to solicitors' accounts. It starts with basic bookkeeping principles and develops an analysis of the provisions of the Solicitors' Accounts Rules 1998. This leads to an explanation of specific areas, for example, VAT accounting for disbursements, stakeholding and retirement from practice. Accounts for Solicitors should be of value to solicitors, their accounting staff as well as students on the Legal Practice Course and trainees.