Developed Comprehensive Personal Finance Tracking System

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Developed Comprehensive Personal Finance Tracking System

  • Day: 2025-03-14
  • Time: 19:10 to 19:50
  • Project: Accounting
  • Workspace: WP 3: Personal
  • Status: In Progress
  • Priority: MEDIUM
  • Assignee: Matías Nehuen Iglesias
  • Tags: Finance, Accounting, Personal Finance, Budgeting, Tracking

Description

Session Goal

The session aimed to develop a comprehensive personal finance tracking system to manage income, expenses, debts, and net wealth effectively.

Key Activities

  • Holistic Financial View: Designed a structured accounting system with detailed tables for tracking income, account movements, liabilities, expenses, and wealth overview.
  • Internal Transfers Tracking: Proposed a refined system for tracking internal money transfers, differentiating between actual income and account movements, and suggested [[data visualization]] techniques.
  • Liabilities Tracking: Developed a method to track liabilities by distinguishing between debt stock and debt flow, including monitoring total outstanding debt and net changes.
  • Smart Net Calculation: Outlined a workflow to calculate net balance changes for accounts, ensuring accurate representation of internal transactions.
  • Cash and Mercado Pago Transactions: Provided guidelines for recording cash and Mercado Pago transfers accurately to avoid double-counting.
  • Consistent Financial Tracking Rules: Established essential rules for accurate financial tracking across multiple accounts.

Achievements

  • Developed a detailed framework for a personal finance tracking system.
  • Clarified methods for tracking various financial elements, including income, expenses, liabilities, and internal transfers.

Pending Tasks

  • Implement the proposed systems and frameworks in a practical setting.
  • Test the visualization techniques for internal transfers.
  • Validate the accuracy of the smart net calculation workflow with real data.

Evidence

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