Who We Serve

Forest Systems partners with family offices, accounting firms, and wealth managers who support high-net-worth individuals and complex investment entities.

Our Mission

To enable and empower clients to achieve their investment goals through accurate, meaningful, and timely financial reports.

Here’s the way we see it:

A good accounting system keeps track of all your financial transactions and account balances — think of these as the “trees.”

Your “Forest” is the bigger picture: trends in spending, how your assets are spread out, how investments are performing compared to others, your available resources, and more.

You need an accounting & reporting partner who can see both the Forest and the trees.

Family offices

Retrieve and aggregate data, download investment transactions, and produce consolidated personal financial statements with confidence.
Meet the demands of wealth management by tracking an unlimited number of investment entities and handling a multitude of transactions without missing a detail.
Manage diverse information and meet major reporting responsibilities, from multi-generational beneficiaries to legal and tax authorities.

Accounting firms

Gather, organize, analyze, and communicate massive amounts of financial data accurately, efficiently, and quickly.
Enjoy the benefit of an integrated general ledger and portfolio tracking solution with true double-entry accounting integrity.
Use detailed general ledger activity to calculate time weighted return, analyze risk level, calculate IRR year-over-year, and more.

Trust & estate managers

Professionals who manage the accounting for trusts and estates have an important and challenging role to fill.
For trusts they must track income and expenses and then report to trustees and beneficiaries. The trustees need to know that the funds have been managed and distributed in accordance with the trust document. Often there are requirements in the trust document that calls for trustees to follow special procedures in administering the trust. They need to know these procedures were followed. This must be reflected in the accounting.
Beneficiaries need to know they are receiving all of the funds to which they are entitled. This can only be shown to them with proper documentation from trust accounting.

“The number of features available on the Forest platform - versus Financial Navigator - is both valuable and impressive. The Forest team is exceptional - they truly listen to their clients’ needs and suggestions, and, more often than not, implement our suggestions to enhance the product for all users.”

—Large family office on the east coast

“The Forest team is very willing and eager to work with us on our needs, which, given our work in private equity accounting, can be unique. Regardless of that unique need, the Forest team is respectful of where we are and they're always helpful - sometimes on our speed dial - with an easy fix for us.”

—Financial services company on the east coast

“I have been a client for 20+ years, and I couldn't be happier with Forest Systems. The firm I work for was a client with their original software, Financial Navigator, in the 1990s. Several years ago, we made the transition from Financial Navigator to Forest Systems. Our firm's IT team worked directly with the Forest team, and the conversion was smooth and seamless.”

—A family office & holding company based on the east coast