Modeling Personal Finances
Do people build granular financial models for their personal finances? Started to build one and realized it's a lot more involved than I originally thought to account for traditional vs. Roth accounts, long-term vs short-term capital gains, extremely variable spending, tax implications as comp grows, etc. Could build it myself but would just take some time. Anyone build a dynamic template they personally use and would like to share?
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No real template to share but I literally started modelling my personal balance sheet, income and Cash flow statements (ie budget) yesterday... fairly straightforward I do it by quarter with mark to markets for my assets and debt. I also have a detailed comp tracker which tracks sign on bonuses, bonus buyouts, vesting schedules etc for deferred comp, etc. it's not super dynamic and nuanced and doesn't really tie out but it's enough for what I need
No. There are too many unknown variables, and most of them are unknowable. Career progression, expense progression, etc.
When I did mass-affluent financial planning a lifetime ago what we'd do is massively simplify things. We'd put in a fixed salary growth rate, savings rate (% of salary) & investment rate of return. Anything else in accumulation would be a one time (or recurring) add-in. Similar with the decumulation phase: fixed spending with growth rate and one time or recurring extra expenses or inflows. At the end we'd show a leftover balance or deficit at your anticipated life expectancy. The only way to try to optimize would be to re-run it changing a variable each time, which would take forever.
I never did one for myself because I couldn't even guess on most of those variables.
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