Balance

A monthly snapshot of everything you own and owe. Net Worth = Assets − Liabilities. Capture it once a month to build a long-term wealth trend.

Ask Claude

"Log my balance for April"Claude walks every category and saves them in one batch

"How is my net worth trending?"Monthly trend + progress toward your FIRE target (when profile is set)

[net_worth.xlsx attached] "Monthly net worth from 2023"/import-balance maps the columns and imports every month in one call

firma show balance [-p YYYY-MM]power user

Shows the balance snapshot for the current month. Pass -p to view a specific period.

$firma show balance -p 2026-03

Balance Sheet  2026-03

ASSETS
cash	$40,149
cash_other	$0
housing_sub	$4,039
savings	$0
domestic_stock	$0
overseas_stock	$259,347
pension	$7,477
real_estate	$6,817
deposit	$65,551
vehicle	$44,384

LIABILITIES
loan	$0
long_term_other	$0
credit_card	$1,073
short_term_other	$0

Assets	$427,764
Liabilities	$1,073
Net Worth	$426,691

Investments are auto-filled from your portfolio when you run firma add balance. The wizard asks whether to log them as domestic_stock or overseas_stock. Choose based on whether the market is in your home country or abroad.

Month-end Workflow

If you record balance and cash flow every month, use firma add monthly instead. It runs both wizards back-to-back and shows a combined summary (net worth, net flow, savings rate) at the end.

firma add monthlyBalance + cash flow in one session. Recommended for month-end

firma add balance [-p YYYY-MM]

Interactive wizard that walks through every asset and liability category. Existing values are shown as placeholders. Press Enter to keep them. Investments are filled automatically from your portfolio. The wizard asks whether to log them as domestic_stock or overseas_stock.

$firma add balance

Period: 2026-04 (2026-04-30)

── ASSETS ──────────────────────────────

◆ Cash$48,000

◆ Investments ($283,400 auto)↵ keep

◆ Pension$11,600

◆ Real Estate$10,400

◆ Vehicle$66,000

◆ Deposit$24,000

── LIABILITIES ─────────────────────────

◆ Credit Card$850

◆ Loans0

Balance Sheet 2026-04

Assets$443,400

Liabilities$850

Net Worth$442,550

Editing & Deleting

firma edit balance [YYYY-MM]Re-run the wizard with existing values pre-filled

firma delete balance [YYYY-MM]Delete all balance entries for a period

If no period is given, defaults to the current month. Editing re-runs the full wizard. Change only the values you need to update.