Personal finance vs investment tracking
Personal finance is the full household picture: cash, debt, budgets, goals, and investments together. An investment tracker alone shows portfolio P&L; a personal finance OS connects that portfolio to savings rate, emergency cover, and goal progress.
Capitallytics separates Personal Finance OS modules (net worth, budget, goals, tax tools) from the Portfolio Tracker, then links them so concentration risk and cash flow appear in context.
Business Finance is a separate workspace for revenue, expenses, cash flow, and FP&A — so household and company books stay clear.
What to track first
Start with net worth (assets minus liabilities), then a simple budget and one or two goals. Add your portfolio when you want P&L and allocation beside those numbers.
Use free finance calculators for SIP, EMI, FIRE, and retirement scenarios before committing to a plan. Capitallytics calculators are educational estimates — not personalized recommendations.
How the pieces connect
Every Personal module reads one financial snapshot built from your own records. Income and spending feed the savings rate and the budget; balances and loans feed net worth and emergency cover; holdings feed the portfolio and the retirement corpus. Because each figure is calculated once, the dashboard, the health score and the AI CFO quote the same numbers.
You can add data by hand, upload a bank statement through the AI CFO (in Beta, with every line checked before it is saved) or import a CAS for mutual funds and demat holdings. A family view brings household members together where you choose to share, and an optional daily brief and weekly report summarise what changed.
Four numbers that describe a household
Net worth is everything you own minus everything you owe. Savings rate is the share of take-home pay you keep. Emergency cover is liquid money — cash, bank and savings balances — divided by essential monthly expenses including EMIs, measured against a six-month target. The EMI ratio is loan repayments as a share of take-home pay; at 30% or below it is comfortable, and above 40% it is flagged.