Money tracer / tracker

[Azura2019]

This is going to sound ridiculous however given my mental state I'm not surprised I'm in this situation.
Basically, I need to track/ trace what happened to some lump sum of money that I inherited after family members death. I have invested some but I don't know where some of it. It's easy to think I've spent it but when you look at the amounts it's hard to think I have spent that much.

Can I hire someone to see where the money went? I have all the paperwork but I need some help looking through paperwork and linking everything.

Is there such service exists?

Thanks

Bump 😊

Forensic accountant would do that. Might be very costly though.

If you can't manage this yourself, do you have a competent friend or family member who could help?

What you're asking doesn't sound particularly difficult. If this was something I wanted to know, I would start by looking through all bank and credit card statements since I had received the money, get copies of credit record and look through emails and any paperwork, to identify any relevant accounts or correspondence to make a start to see if I could see any big payments, or obvious 'holes' eg the money has gone by spending more than your income over a period of time.

You can download transactions into excel and manipulate them to make categorising and adding up easier.

Wild, that's the name!!

Barbara, great idea, just feel daunting though. I have close friends but not sure I want to expose my spending trends 😊
You've given me some thoughts to what I could do, thank you.