What Changes When You Filter Your Dashboard to One Account (and What Stays Whole)

If you keep more than one account in Where Is My Money, you have probably noticed something. Pick a single account from the filter at the top of the dashboard, say "Bank of America Checking," and your Spending number drops to just that account. But the Budget Overview, the Upcoming Bills, and your Net Worth keep showing everything. That is not a bug, and it is not the filter forgetting to do its job. It is a deliberate choice about which numbers belong to one account and which numbers belong to your whole financial life.

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What the account filter actually changes

When you choose one account (or one institution) from the dashboard filter, WIMM re-scopes everything that is genuinely about money moving through that account:

• Spending, Debt Payments, Income, and Net narrow to transactions in that account.
• The spending donut and the income versus expense trend redraw for that account alone.
• Recent transactions show only that account's activity.
• Each budget's "spent so far" counts only what that account spent against the category.

So when you want to answer "what did this card do this month," the filter is exactly the right tool. Everything that can honestly be attributed to a single account follows the filter.

Why budgets, bills, net worth, and goals stay whole

Four things on the dashboard intentionally ignore the account filter, because narrowing them to one account would be misleading or empty.

Your budget list. A budget is a target for a category, not for an account. A "Groceries" budget is not owned by your checking account, because you might buy groceries on a debit card one week and a credit card the next. WIMM keeps every budget on screen and only narrows the spending counted against it. That is why the "X of Y budgets on track" count does not change when you switch accounts, even though the spent amounts do.

Your bills. A bill is something you owe, regardless of which account happens to pay it. Your mortgage is still due whether it comes out of checking or you move money first. Hiding bills behind whichever account paid them last would turn a reliable checklist into a guessing game, so Upcoming Bills always shows the full list.

Your net worth. Net worth is everything you own minus everything you owe, added up across every account. Filtered to one checking account, a "net worth" figure would leave out your savings, your investments, and your debts, which is not net worth at all. WIMM keeps it whole so the number always tells the truth.

Your goals. A savings goal is a target you fund from wherever the money is. It belongs to you, not to a single account, so it stays put.

A simple way to think about it

Here is the rule in one line. The account filter narrows the things that are about an account, and leaves whole the things that are about you.

Use the filter when you want a single account's story: what it spent, what it earned, how much of a category it covered. Clear the filter when you want the household truth: your total net worth, every bill you owe, and the full progress on each budget and goal.

How this compares to other apps

When Mint shut down, a lot of people moved to aggregators like Empower or Monarch precisely because those tools roll every account into one net worth number. That whole-picture view is the right default, and WIMM keeps it. What WIMM adds on top is an honest per-account lens for the numbers that actually belong to an account, without pretending your net worth or your bills live inside a single checking account. You get both views, and the app is clear about which one you are looking at.

See it for yourself

Open the dashboard with the sample data, pick one account from the filter, and watch the Spending card change while Net Worth and Bills hold steady. Then clear it and see the whole picture come back. Start at app.wimm.money/demo, or sign in and try it with your own accounts.