Calculation of your personal net worth!

Personal net worth is a combination of the total assets you own and what liabilities you owe.

Net worth helps an individual to measure his wealth. It gives a realistic picture of what a person owns and owes. An individual might possess various assets due to which he may think that he has enough to fulfil his life goals, but that isn’t true. Along with assets, an individual might have other outstanding liabilities or he might plan to take further liabilities. If liabilities are more than assets, then people will have to face severe financial consequences, if they continue to increase over time. So, to keep a check over an individual’s financial status, and control his habit of taking loans or debt over small things, he should calculate net worth every month.

This is how an individual can come to know where he stands financially and take his financial decisions accordingly.

Net worth can be negative or positive. If it is negative that means liabilities are more than assets which might put an individual in trouble whereas, positive net worth means assets are more than liabilities, which depicts that individual is in a better position. Positive net worth does not mean that an individual shouldn’t calculate his wealth, as his net worth might take a turn anytime and get into the negative zone.

So, now, the question arises as to how should one calculate net worth?

Net worth formula:

Net worth = Sum of all assets – Sum of all liabilities

Personal net worth is a combination of the total assets you possess and what you owe. Understanding and knowing your personal net worth helps you in the following ways:

• It helps an individual to know where he stands financially.

• It will help an individual to check whether his liabilities are not going beyond your assets.

• It will give an individual a clear picture of whether he needs to save more and spend less. 

How to calculate net worth: 

List down all your assets and then your liabilities and subtract the number of total liabilities from the amount of total assets.

For instance,

An individual has a house worth Rs 5 crore and a farmhouse worth Rs 60 lakh. He also has stocks worth Rs 45 lakh in his Demat account and other investments worth Rs 25 lakh. His business is worth Rs 10 crore as per the balance sheet. He has a home loan worth Rs 2 crore and a children’s education loan worth Rs 15 lakh. So, what will be the net worth of this individual?