Reading the wealth journal and evolution
The wealth journal brings together the records that explain how your wealth has evolved. It distinguishes current values, which are used in Portfolio overview, from historical values kept for analysing a period.
1. What the journal keeps
Depending on the items being tracked, the journal can show the overall value or the value for an owner, family, asset, liability, or holding account. Entries follow asset and liability families so that each change retains its context. It also keeps property changes, payments, results, and the rates used in calculations.
When a date has no record, My Wealth carries forward the latest known value. If no usable data exists, the value remains unavailable instead of being estimated.
2. Exploring a period
Use the period, scope, and filters to isolate a change. The vertical axis adapts to the visible values. The ref. date marks a reference value separate from ordinary points.
The details for a day and the list of changes are read-only: an individual historical row cannot be modified or deleted. This rule preserves consistency between recorded values, operations, and properties.
3. Distinguishing the journal from monthly movements
The wealth journal traces an item's historical values and changes over a period. To examine monthly movements, open Portfolio overview and select a month instead. The detail is organised by custodian, investment vehicle, then asset or liability: signed quantity changes, tracked deposits and withdrawals, and loan principal repayments. The Contributions / Outflows summary avoids counting a flow twice between an investment vehicle and its position.
Amounts are shown in their native currency and, where a historical rate exists, with their equivalent in the main currency. Missing conversions and unmatched flows are identified. A simple market revaluation changes the tracked value without automatically becoming a contribution or outflow. Read movements in Portfolio overview.
4. Correcting the current situation
To correct a current price, balance, quantity, or property, open the relevant item in Portfolio and modify its valuation or information. The correction then creates the necessary entries in the journal.
5. Resetting history
In the history settings, Clear all history deletes every record. Reset records starts again from the current situation. These actions affect the entire journal and require confirmation.
When deleting an asset, liability, or another item, My Wealth may offer to retain its former entries or purge them. Keep them to preserve continuity in charts; purge them if the item should no longer appear in history.
Save your wealth file before resetting. On desktop, a .bak backup may let you recover an earlier version of the file.