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Money Guy Show

How Do You Figure Out Your Net Worth?

Money Guy Show

Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors

Education, Investing, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

What exactly is a net worth statement, and what all should you include on it? We'll walk you through that question and more in today's Q&A episode! Watch more exclusive content only on YouTube! Visit our website - Get our FREE financial resources - Check out our course, Know Your Number! - Sign up for our Financial Order of Operations course - Get easy to understand answers to your financial questions Follow us on social media! -Instagram -Twitter -Facebook -TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, Mary has a question for you guys.

0:10.4

When you calculate your net worth, would you advise to include the present appraised

0:15.1

value of things like cars, especially the non-daily commute car?

0:19.7

And then would you advise to include things like points, jewelry, luxury bags, etc.

0:25.8

How do you factor these into your net worth statement?

0:28.9

And which of these things do you not factor in your net worth statement?

0:32.4

So here is the beautiful thing about a net worth statement.

0:35.2

It's like a snowflake.

0:36.9

It's unique.

0:37.9

It's yours.

0:38.9

You get to design it and you get to do it the way that you want to.

0:42.3

So what's the right way to do it?

0:44.2

I don't know that we can exactly say what's the right way.

0:46.2

I'm going to share what you do and I'll share what I do.

0:48.5

I'll share mine.

0:49.5

For real estate assets, I like to value them at market cost.

0:54.6

At the price I paid it, purchase price, not at market cost.

0:58.4

I want to stay really, really conservative.

0:59.7

I don't want my net worth to go up by whatever amount, simply because the value of the

1:05.0

hole that I'm not going to sell happened to go up that amount.

1:08.0

So it's really, really conservative.

1:09.8

You asked about present like appraised value on cars.

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