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IJSREM65718
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10 |
6 |
Jun 2026
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1-6
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Monthly (12 issues per year)
License:International Journal of Scientific Research in Engineering and Management follows the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) License, allowing free use and distribution with proper attribution.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Sri Vidya College of Engineering and Technology
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Sri Vidya College of Engineering and Technology
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Sri Vidya College of Engineering and Technology
Personal finance management is a growing challenge for middle-class families, who must simultaneously track daily expenditure, manage a monthly salary and monitor a diverse portfolio of investments. Most existing tools address only one of these needs, forcing families to switch between disconnected applications. This paper presents Smart Family Financier, a full-stack web application that unifies expense tracking, salary management, investment portfolio management, financial reporting and rule-based advisory within a single dashboard. The client is a single-page application built with React and Vite, and the server is a stateless REST API built with Node.js and Express, secured using JSON Web Tokens. The investment module supports thirteen asset classes spanning traditional Indian instruments such as gold, fixed deposits, the Public Provident Fund and the National Pension System, and modern alternatives such as equities, mutual funds and cryptocurrency. Gold holdings are revalued in real time, a composite portfolio health score is computed from diversification, emergency-fund coverage and equity exposure, and a wealth-prediction engine projects value over multiple horizons. Evaluation on a representative family dataset of over one hundred and seventy expense records and eleven months of salary history shows that the platform computes the key financial indicators accurately and presents them in an intuitive, India-centric interface.
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This paper has presented the design and implementation of Smart Family Financier, a full-stack web application that unifies expense tracking, salary management, investment portfolio management, financial reporting and rule-based advisory within a single dashboard. Built as a React single-page application backed by a stateless Node.js and Express REST API secured with JWTs, the system supports thirteen investment asset classes, revalues gold holdings in real time, computes a composite portfolio health score, generates personalized insights, projects future wealth and exports data to Excel and PDF. Evaluation on a representative family dataset demonstrated accurate computation of the key indicators in an intuitive, India-centric interface. Planned future work includes multi-member sub-accounts, category-level budgets, open-banking transaction import, live stock-market prices, an income-tax calculator, a React Native mobile application, and machine-learning-based spending-pattern analysis and anomaly detection.
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6/30/2026
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Double-Blind Peer Review
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