What is CQ?

The concept

What is CQ?

CQ — Cash Quotient — is your financial intelligence score: how well you earn, manage, grow, and survive with money, expressed as a single number.

The financial equivalent of IQ and EQ

IQ measures intelligence. EQ measures emotional intelligence. CQ measures how well you handle money — your financial capability, behaviour, and resilience, all wrapped into one stat.

What makes up your CQ

Your score is a blend of the habits and decisions that decide where your money story goes.

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Spending habits

What you spend on, and how it tracks with income.

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Saving discipline

How consistently you put money aside.

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Risk tolerance

How much uncertainty you can carry.

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Income streams

Where money comes from — and how many ways.

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Debt management

Borrowing well, or borrowing badly.

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Investment behaviour

Putting money to work over time.

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Financial resilience

Your buffer when life happens.

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Lifestyle choices

The trade-offs you make every day.

Why one number?

A single score is instantly readable. It gives you a baseline, a target, and a way to see progress — the same way a stat makes a game understandable, CQ makes your financial life measurable.

Life is money. Money is CQ.

Your financial story, quantified.