Splitting a windfall sensibly.
A worked example
Starting figures
- Amount
- $80,000
- To debt
- 30%
- To investing
- 45%
- To spending
- 10%
What it returns
- To investing
- $36,000
- To debt
- $24,000
- To spending
- $8,000
- Left as cash
- $12,000
How to read the results
With the defaults above, to investing works out at $36,000.