Essential Expenses Part 1 of 4
Liquidity Needs Assessment

Your Emergency Fund Should Fit Your Life

You may have heard everyone should keep three to six months of expenses saved. That's a helpful guideline, but your ideal reserve depends on much more than a single formula.

This assessment calculates a personalized liquidity target based on your actual life: your income, career, family, housing, health, business, insurance, and comfort with uncertainty. There are no right or wrong answers.

4Parts
20Scored questions
~8Minutes
Part 1

Essential Monthly Expenses

Enter what you'd need each month to maintain your household during a temporary emergency. Include only necessary expenses that would continue if your income stopped.

Your Essential Monthly Expenses$0
The emergency monthly budget should generally exclude or reduce:
  • Vacations, entertainment, restaurants
  • Optional shopping & nonessential subscriptions
  • Debt payments above the required minimum
  • Voluntary investment contributions
  • Discretionary business reinvestment
  • Anything that could temporarily be paused
Part 2

Current Emergency Liquidity

Enter money available for a genuine emergency without selling long-term investments, borrowing, or creating significant taxes or penalties.

Your Current Emergency Liquidity$0

Secondary Liquidity

These resources are not automatically counted as dedicated emergency savings. Enter them separately for advisor review. Access may involve market losses, debt, taxes, penalties, delays, or dependence on another person.
Part 3

Liquidity Risk

Question 1 of 20

Part 4

A Few Reflections

These aren't scored - they help your advisor understand your situation.

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Your Results

The Emergency Fund Designed Around Your Life

Recommended Reserve
6months of essential expenses
$0
Emergency-Fund Target
$0
Current Liquidity
$0
Funding Gap
0%
Currently Funded
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