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Keep your net worth

What you'll do

Net Worth is a household balance sheet. Your bank and card accounts in Cashington, and the accounts you only track the value of, appear on it by themselves; you add the rest, such as a home, a car or a loan, and give each a dated value. It's kept apart from cash flow, so a new home value never shows up as income.

Updated October 2026 · Cashington 0.2.3 · 7 steps · screenshots show an invented household

  1. Click Add item

    Open Net Worth and click Add item.

    Net Worth: the household balance sheet with net worth as of today, total assets, total liabilities and an Add item button.

  2. Add an asset

    Choose Asset, name it, and pick the type, the current value and its date. Put it in a group (here a new one, Vacation home), then click Add item.

    Add a balance sheet item: Asset selected, Name, Type set to Real estate, Current value, Value date, Group and Owner.

  3. Add its loan and link it

    Add the loan as a Liability and link it to the asset. A linked loan is listed under its asset and moves with it: together they're one bundle.

    Adding a Liability of type Mortgage, with Balance owed and Linked asset set to Lake cabin in Vacation home.

  4. See the group

    The new group holds the cabin with its mortgage underneath. Equity is the value minus what's owed, and each row shows its share of net worth.

    The balance sheet's Vacation home group with Lake cabin and Cabin mortgage, and the Updated, Of net worth, Assets, Liabilities and Equity columns.

  5. Put it in your order

    Drag a row by its handle to reorder the sheet, or focus the handle, press Space, move it with the arrow keys and press Space again. Only the order changes, never a total.

    Reordering the Vacation home group by its handle, with the hint Drag a row by its handle to reorder it.

  6. Update a value

    To record a new value, open the item and click Update value.

    The Our home row opened, with Update value, Edit details, Move to group, Move up, Move down and Archive.

  7. Save the new value

    Type the value and its date, then click Save value. A dated value carries forward until the next update, and the older history stays.

    Update Our home: Asset value, As of date and Note, with Cancel and Save value.