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Financials: Balance Sheet and Investments

Written by Taylor Stewart

Use Financials → Balance Sheet to review the household’s in-plan assets, liabilities, and net worth. Use Financials → Investments to understand the investment portfolio’s allocation, tax status, holdings-derived metrics, and account-level composition.

How do I read the Balance Sheet?

The Balance Sheet groups available assets and liabilities and calculates Net worth as total assets minus total liabilities. Select an account name to open its source record, review details, or correct the account.

The Balance Sheet uses accounts included in the plan. If an asset or debt is missing, confirm that the record exists, has a usable balance, and is not excluded from the plan. Linked accounts can still require review when ownership, subtype, or other planning fields are incomplete.

How do I read Investments?

The Investments page starts with four portfolio measures:

  • Portfolio value is the total value of household investment accounts.

  • Expense ratio is the holdings-weighted expense ratio. Kerdora also shows the estimated annual expense when holdings metrics are available.

  • Dividend yield is the holdings-weighted dividend yield, with estimated annual dividend income when available.

  • Tax-advantaged shows the value and share classified as tax-advantaged.

Asset allocation shows the value and percentage by recorded asset class. Tax allocation groups the portfolio by the accounts’ recorded tax status. The Investment accounts table shows account, owner, tax status, portfolio share, balance, and expense ratio. Select an account to open the full record.

Why are allocation, expense ratio, or dividend yield missing?

These results depend on the investment account and its holdings or allocation detail. If Kerdora says no holdings metrics are available, review the source account and holdings. Also check Office → Plan Cleanup for missing ticker data, an allocation that does not total 100%, a missing model portfolio, ownership, balance, or subtype.

Kerdora does not infer a complete portfolio from a balance alone. A portfolio value may appear while allocation, expense, dividend, concentration, or drift analysis remains incomplete.

What is the difference between Financials Investments and Planning Investments?

Financials is the concise current-state summary. Open the full Investments planning workspace when you need to review holdings in depth, assign a target portfolio, compare current and target allocation, or act on drift. Correct source accounts and holdings there or in client data, then return to Financials to verify the summary.

Related articles

  • The Financials Tab: Client-Ready Plan Summaries

  • Investments: Reviewing Holdings and Portfolio Detail

  • Account Types in Kerdora

  • What Data Is Available After Accounts Are Linked

  • Plan Cleanup: Resolve Missing and Inconsistent Plan Data

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