Acting as a fiduciary isn’t always easy. A fiduciary owes many duties to the beneficiaries and a breach of a duty can result in liability. One of these duties is the duty to account. In our litigious society, having an accounting is one of the best ways a fiduciary can protect itself from liability. From the beneficiary’s perspective, an accounting protects the beneficiary because it forces the fiduciary to either: (1) Admit that he or she can’t account due to a failure of recordkeeping; (2) Truthfully account, providing the beneficiaries with evidence of any potential wrongdoings; or (3) Falsify the accounts, which the beneficiaries can then disprove.