Hopkins Forensic turns bank records, PDFs, scans, and transaction histories into structured forensic workpapers that attorneys, fiduciaries, and financial reviewers can actually use — source-referenced schedules, review flags, missing-document controls, and an attorney-ready binder.
StatementProof is the first commercial system from Hopkins Forensic.
StatementProof
StatementProof is not generic PDF conversion and not an AI black box. It is a structured forensic workpaper system designed to organize financial-document disorder into reviewable schedules, source references, flags, and questions.
Bank statements, scanned PDFs, partial records, and transaction histories come in — an Excel workbook goes out, with normalized schedules, source-page references on every line, review flags, missing-document controls, open questions, and a short summary memo suitable for use as the front of an attorney-ready binder.
Every value is traceable to a specific page of a specific statement. Every total either reconciles internally or is flagged with a reason. Every control is documented in the workbook itself. The output is built to be reviewed by an attorney, fiduciary, or auditor, not just opened.
The workpaper never shows a false tie. Where a statement is internally inconsistent — and many are — that inconsistency is preserved and documented, not smoothed away.
The problem
Attorneys and fiduciaries often receive financial records as messy PDFs, scans, exports, duplicate files, partial statements, missing months, unclear transfers, and unexplained deposits. The records arrive in whatever shape they happen to be in — not the shape a review needs them in.
A pile of PDFs is not a workpaper. A categorized spreadsheet is not a workpaper. What counsel and fiduciaries need are organized, source-referenced workpapers that tie out and show what is missing, what is known, and what requires review.
If the records do not tie out, the matter cannot move.
Method
A repeatable forensic-workpaper process, not an ad hoc hourly service. Every engagement runs through the same six stages.
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Counsel or the fiduciary describes the matter in writing. Hopkins Forensic returns a written scope, price, and estimated turnaround before any work begins. Statements are uploaded only through a secure document-exchange link sent after scope is confirmed — never by email.
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Statements are processed against the institution’s layout. Pages are placed in sequence. Missing pages, missing months, and partial statements are identified and recorded against the engagement window. The workbook reflects the statements as they actually exist, not as they would exist if the file were complete.
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Every transaction is normalized into a single register: date, description, counterparty, direction, amount, running balance, source page. Duplicates between exports and statements are reconciled. Counterparties are normalized so the same payee or payor appears as the same name.
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Opening and ending balances are walked. Section totals are checked against statement-printed control totals. Period-to-period continuity is verified where the documents permit. Where a balance does not tie out, the gap is preserved and documented rather than smoothed away.
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Items that do not reconcile, items that warrant explanation, missing-document items, and items requiring follow-up are surfaced as review flags. Each flag is source-referenced to the statement page that produced it. Flags identify items for review; they do not adjudicate them.
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The workbook, summary memo, source-document index, missing-document request list, and open-questions schedule are packaged so counsel or the fiduciary can review the matter without re-reading every PDF.
Core components
The standard StatementProof deliverable is built from eight productized components. Scope determines which components are included.
The core workbook. Organizes statements in sequence, normalizes transactions into a single register, walks opening and ending balances, and reconciles section totals where records permit. Source-references every value to a specific statement page.
A complete index of the documents reviewed within scope — institution, account, statement period, page count, and provenance. Anchors every cited value in the workbook to a specific source document.
Identifies missing statement periods, missing pages, and supporting items not provided. Helps structure follow-up requests to the client, an opposing party, or the institution, so the matter is not built on records that do not exist.
Source-referenced flags for items requiring follow-up: large transactions, round-dollar activity, repeated amounts, threshold-adjacent items, new counterparties, frequency spikes, and similar patterns. Flags identify financial-record issues for reviewer follow-up; they are not legal conclusions.
Organizes statement-face deposits — large deposits, recurring deposits, unidentified deposits, deposits followed by withdrawals, and deposit concentration by description. Instrument-level deposit work (deposit tickets, check images, individual payor identification) is separately scoped.
Incoming and outgoing transfer tables, matched and unmatched transfers, account-to-account flow summaries, and concentration by counterparty or account. Where only one side of a transfer is available, the relationship is labeled apparent or potential.
A packaged deliverable for counsel: summary memo, key transaction schedule, review-flags tab, source-page excerpt index, missing-document list, methodology page, and limitations page. Supports attorney review; does not substitute for legal analysis or expert testimony.
The questions counsel, the client, or the fiduciary should answer for the workpaper to be complete — categorized, source-referenced, and resolvable. The open-questions log makes follow-up structured rather than ad hoc.
Use cases
Practical matters where organized, source-referenced statement workpapers materially change what counsel and fiduciaries can do with the records.
Beneficiary challenges, contested accountings, and probate matters where the underlying numbers need to be tested against the statements rather than accepted on face.
Trustees, executors, conservators, and guardians preparing periodic or final accountings. StatementProof produces accounting-ready schedules with documented source references.
Activity around incapacity, power-of-attorney execution, caregiver involvement, or disputed transfers from an elderly account holder. Items are flagged for attorney review, not adjudicated.
Marital-estate discovery, contested transfers, and long discovery windows. Helps structure attorney review of bank activity around filing dates and key events identified by counsel.
Multi-month or multi-year reconstruction for partnership disputes, owner-dispute matters, or businesses whose books need to be rebuilt against the actual statements.
Statement activity that does not reconcile against known sources, or transfers between accounts where the matching side is missing or unclear. Surfaced as review flags with source references.
Counsel preparing a matter who needs a reconciled workpaper layer beneath their own work, without standing up internal capacity to produce it. StatementProof supplies the workpaper; counsel supplies the legal analysis.
StatementProof supports attorney and fiduciary review. It does not replace counsel, tax preparers, or expert testimony.
Specialized Forensic Review Modules
Most forensic accounting engagements offer a generic deliverable. Hopkins Forensic breaks financial-record review into focused modules — each built for a specific record problem, dispute type, or investigative need. All modules are powered by StatementProof workpapers.
Identify statement gaps, missing production periods, and incomplete account coverage before a financial review can proceed.
Separate supported deposits from unsupported credits and produce a deposit-source schedule for review.
Trace movement between accounts, identify matched transfers, and distinguish internal from external account activity.
Prepare workpaper-style LIBR schedules organizing account activity in a form that supports commingled-fund tracing analysis.
Review account activity for patterns consistent with financial exploitation concerns in elder or vulnerable-adult matters.
Entry-level financial-record review for matters with a defined question, a manageable record set, and available documentation.
Comprehensive review for complex matters involving multiple accounts, extended date ranges, and layered tracing needs.
Review fiduciary-prepared accountings against underlying bank records and produce workpaper-style findings for trustees, beneficiaries, and counsel.
Organize marital account records, transfers, and deposits for attorney review in divorce and family-law financial matters.
Workpaper-style financial-record review organized for attorney use in discovery, settlement, mediation, or trial preparation.
CFE-led forensic-accounting review, investigative-support workpapers, bank-statement analysis, tracing schedules, loss calculations, damages schedules, restitution-support summaries, and source-referenced financial findings for law-enforcement, inspector-general, public-integrity, agency-counsel, and public-sector matters.
Hopkins Forensic reviews financial records, identifies reconciliation issues, missing records, unexplained transactions, unsupported disbursements, transfer patterns, questioned costs, and loss amounts supported by the documents provided. Work is performed under a written scope, with lawful authority and secure document handling.
Hopkins Forensic does not make charging decisions, court rulings, or official agency determinations.
Organized financial records and transaction summaries prepared to support CPA review, compilation, or tax work.
Organize billing records, EOBs, provider invoices, patient payments, and reimbursement trails for insurer, provider, attorney, or reviewer follow-up.
Review partnership distributions, capital accounts, vendor payments, and related-party transactions for business dispute or shareholder review matters.
Review vendor payments, disbursement records, and payment patterns for unexplained, unsupported, or duplicate activity.
Review billing records, claim histories, and payment patterns where healthcare billing irregularities are at issue.
Source-referenced forensic-accounting workpapers calculating loss, damages, questioned costs, unsupported disbursements, overpayments, restitution amounts, fiduciary shortfalls, or damages schedules where the records permit. Hopkins Forensic documents the calculation method, source records, assumptions, exclusions, and unresolved items.
All specialized review modules are led by a Certified Fraud Examiner and powered by StatementProof workpapers.
Sample workbook
A real StatementProof sample workbook is available for download. It shows the Control Summary, transaction register, balance walk, source-page references, and review-items tabs as they appear in an actual engagement deliverable. No client data; sample only.
Services & pricing
Three tiers. Each scope is confirmed in writing before any work begins. Pricing depends on record volume, PDF quality, number of accounts, date range, and the analysis requested.
StatementProof Starter Review
$300 launch fixed fee
A paid first look using one representative monthly statement from one account at one institution. The purpose is to show the StatementProof workpaper format, test the statement layout, run statement-face reconciliation controls, flag items requiring follow-up, and determine whether broader reconstruction should be quoted.
Acceptance at this fixed fee is subject to document quality, transaction volume, and statement complexity. The Starter Review is statement-face work only; scanned-PDF, brokerage, multi-account, multi-period, tracing, and instrument-level work are quoted separately.
The Starter Review is not per-month pricing for larger matters.
Statement Reconstructions
Scoped quote
Multi-period or multi-account work across a single institution, generally on the face of the statement. Adds cross-period continuity checks, counterparty rollups across the window, and per-statement provenance to the deliverables of the Starter Review.
Common scope: six to twenty-four monthly statements across one or two accounts at one institution; one year of bookkeeping reconstruction; a fiduciary preparing an accounting that covers several quarters.
Fiduciary Dispute Workpapers
Scoped quote
The full-scope deliverable: multi-account, multi-institution, or matters requiring a documented control set for fiduciary, probate, trust, guardianship, divorce, or contested-asset proceedings. Instrument-level review — check images, deposit tickets, deposit-item detail, endorsements, or matching checks against deposits — is included when the matter requires it, scoped separately within the engagement.
The deliverable includes per-statement provenance logs, a documented control set across the entire engagement, and a summary memo describing methodology in language suitable for use as an attachment to correspondence or filings.
Not sure which review fits your matter, or whether a full forensic accounting engagement is the right scope? See how StatementProof review modules compare to a full forensic accounting engagement.
Scope and boundaries
Every engagement is bounded by a written scope confirmed before any work begins. The scope governs what is reviewed, how it is reviewed, and what the deliverable contains.
Most engagements are based on the face of the statement: dates, descriptions, debits and credits, running balances, section totals, statement totals, and page references. The face of the statement is the unit of work for the StatementProof Starter Review and for standard Statement Reconstructions.
A single line on a statement is not always a single underlying transaction. A deposit shown as one line may be one payment, or it may be a deposit ticket containing many checks. Work that goes behind the statement to the underlying instruments — check images, deposit tickets, deposit-item detail, endorsements, multiple-check deposits, payor or payee reconstruction, or matching checks against deposits — is instrument-level review. Instrument-level review is a different kind of engagement and is quoted separately.
Hopkins Forensic identifies, calculates, reconciles, traces, documents, and explains financial-record findings within a written scope.
Hopkins Forensic does not provide legal advice or tax advice, and does not make charging decisions, court rulings, or official agency determinations. Legal liability, criminal intent, fiduciary breach, recoverability, and final remedies remain with counsel, the client, the agency, insurer, court, or other authorized decision-maker.
Hopkins Forensic does not investigate transactions, contact merchants, contact institutions, or verify information outside the documents provided. Expert reports, testimony, affidavits, or declarations require a separate written engagement with its own scope and preparation.
Document security and transmission method are confirmed before sensitive files are sent. Statements are uploaded through a secure document-exchange link issued after scope is confirmed in writing. Unredacted statements should never be sent by email — not at intake, not at any stage. Statements should be submitted only by someone with authority to provide them: the account holder, a fiduciary with documented authority, or counsel with client authorization.
FAQ
The $300 StatementProof Starter Review is a paid first look using one representative monthly statement from one account at one institution. It shows the StatementProof workpaper format, tests the statement layout and document quality, runs statement-face reconciliation checks, flags items requiring follow-up, and helps determine whether a broader reconstruction or forensic-accounting review should be quoted.
It is not a full account reconstruction, tracing analysis, full fraud investigation, loss/damages calculation, restitution-support schedule, expert report, or multi-period engagement. Larger matters are scoped separately based on record volume, PDF/image quality, account count, date range, and requested analysis.
Not as a legal conclusion. StatementProof workpapers reconcile and document what the records show. They identify financial-record findings, source-support gaps, reconciliation issues, missing records, and items requiring attorney, fiduciary, or reviewer follow-up. Review flags are financial-record issues, not legal conclusions.
Where separately scoped, Hopkins Forensic may prepare forensic-accounting findings, tracing schedules, loss / damages calculations, restitution-support summaries, and source-referenced exhibits. Legal liability, criminal intent, fiduciary breach, recoverability, charging decisions, court rulings, and official agency determinations remain with counsel, the client, the agency, insurer, court, or other authorized decision-maker.
Founder
Oscar Hopkins is the founder of Hopkins Forensic. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and has completed forensic-accounting training at the FBI Forensic Accounting Academy. He is a graduate of Boston College.
His professional background spans forensic accounting, audit, internal investigations, litigation support, and the operation of a small professional-services business. That combination is the basis for the StatementProof methodology: the workpaper is built the way a forensic accountant would build it, structured the way an auditor would expect to review it, and documented the way litigation support requires.
Hopkins Forensic is independent. The firm has no government affiliation and no government endorsement. Engagements are accepted on the merits of the matter and the documents provided.
Certified Fraud Examiner FBI Forensic Accounting Academy Boston College
Intake
To request scoping, email contact@hopkinsforensic.com with a short description of the matter.
Include: the institution, the type of account, the approximate number of statements, the purpose of the review, and any deadline. A paragraph is enough. Do not include account numbers, balances, or other sensitive details in the email.
Do not attach statements. A secure document-exchange link is sent after scope is confirmed in writing. Unredacted statements should never be sent by email — not at this stage, not at any stage.