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Short, practical guides to household money — budgets, cash flow, net worth, debt, emergency planning, and the records that hold it all together. Written to be read, not skimmed past.
Everything here is educational only, not personalized financial, tax, legal, or investment advice.
Owniko terminology
Short, plain-language explanations of the terms you will see inside Owniko.
Ledger
A ledger is a self-contained set of financial records: its own accounts, transactions, budgets, documents, and people. Most households need one; some genuinely need more.
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Account
An account is any place money or value sits, or is owed: checking, savings, credit cards, loans, investments, even cash in a drawer. Balances roll up into net worth.
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Transaction
A transaction is one money event in one account: a paycheck arriving, rent going out, a card swipe. Date, amount, account, category — that’s the whole grammar.
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Category
A category answers “what was this for?” — one label per transaction (or per split part) that powers budgets and every spending report.
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Tag
Tags are free-form labels for questions that cut across categories: a vacation, a renovation, a tax year. A transaction has one category but can carry many tags.
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Budget
In Owniko, a budget is a planned amount attached to a category for a period. Record transactions normally, and each budget shows plan versus actual on its own.
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Asset
An asset is anything the household owns with real value: account balances, a home, vehicles, valuables. Assets are the positive side of net worth.
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Liability
A liability is anything the household owes: mortgages, car loans, student loans, card balances. Liabilities are the negative side of net worth.
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Document
A document is any file worth keeping attached to your financial life: statements, policies, deeds, receipts — stored, typed, and linked to the records they belong to.
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Contact
Contacts are the people and organizations attached to your ledger: family members, tenants, agents, professionals — the human layer of your financial records.
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Family Continuity
Family Continuity makes sure trusted people can find what matters if you cannot guide them: contacts, check-in rules, and carefully scoped access packages. It is not estate planning.
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Smart view
A smart view gathers everything about one life area — health, retirement, taxes, debt, emergency fund — from records you already keep, without re-filing anything.
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Net worth
Owniko computes net worth from your records: account balances plus asset values, minus everything owed. One number, and the trend behind it.
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Cash flow
Owniko’s cash flow reporting shows money in versus money out for a period, with transfers excluded — the month’s honest story, not just its ending balance.
1 min readUpdated July 2026