Articles in the Budget Category
Which Of These 5 Budgeting Systems Do You Use?
April 26th, 2008
Blueprint for Financial Prosperity recently wrote a post which gave a brief look at 5 different budgeting systems.
Here is a summary of the different methods mentioned, along with my own thoughts on each of them.
- Envelope budgeting - not tried this one myself yet, it’s where you
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Budget 2008: Are You Any Better Off?
March 13th, 2008
This year’s budget wasn’t the most exciting, but in the current financial climate, you could hardly expect it to be.
With businesses and consumers finding borrowing more and more difficult, as banks reduce their lending following the credit crunch, and as the cost of electricity, …
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Manage Your Finances In Excel
December 9th, 2007
I’ve talked before about using Excel to track your expenses and to setup a budget, but it can be difficult to know where to begin when faced with a blank Excel sheet and the thought of having to add in all of your expenses and spending.
If you’d like some help, …
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Tracking Your Spending: The First Step To Saving Money
October 15th, 2007
As you may have read in some previous posts, I’ve been trying to knuckle down to track all of my spending for at least a month. The reason for this effort? So that I can identify where my money is being spent, and identify where money can be …
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Expensr: A New Budgeting Tool
July 9th, 2007
Expensr is a new budget / spending tracking tool which looks quite interesting. It allows you to monitor what you are spending money on, gives you useful visuaisation of statistics to show you where all of your money is going, and probably most interestingly, allows …
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