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Personal Finance Budget Excel Workbook
Posted on 7/21/13 at 9:43 pm
Posted on 7/21/13 at 9:43 pm
I know most people these days just use their own excel files to manage their monthly budget. Is anyone willing to share an existing excel workbook that they utilize? Thank you!
Posted on 7/21/13 at 9:47 pm to ClownQuestionBro
Have you checked out the personal finance & budgeting Excel templates available for free download on the Microsoft website?
I don't use any of them but they are pretty comprhensive for spreadsheet applications.
I don't use any of them but they are pretty comprhensive for spreadsheet applications.
Posted on 7/21/13 at 10:10 pm to LSURussian
No I have not thanks for the tip.
Posted on 7/22/13 at 12:04 am to ClownQuestionBro
I built one but I haven't updated the tax information.
Posted on 7/22/13 at 7:08 am to ClownQuestionBro
if you have gmail, you can use google docs and they have a bunch of good budget/finance templates for household use.
Posted on 7/22/13 at 7:33 am to trillhog
quote:You don't think Google would stoop to accessing those documents on a person's computer in order to obtain demographic data for their targeted advertising, do you?
if you have gmail, you can use google docs and they have a bunch of good budget/finance templates for household use.
Nah. They wouldn't do that.....
Posted on 7/22/13 at 7:38 am to LSURussian
no way, i trust them
if they want to look at a bunch of numbers they can have at it.
if they want to look at a bunch of numbers they can have at it.
Posted on 7/22/13 at 7:51 am to trillhog
I haven't look at the templates you referred to so I'm just talking out of my anal orifice here, but if their budgeting/personal finance spreadsheets has the user inputting his expenses, such as "Dinner at Ruth's Chris = $174.00" then that type of info would be very helpful to GOOG in their targeted advertising and in their selling of mailing lists to advertisers.
Just think of data that could be mined from such information on an expenditure spreadsheet.
ETA: And I'd be willing to bet the user would give GOOG permission to access those spreadsheets on his PC when he clicks on the "I Agree" button on the ever-present "Terms of Service" 20+ page document that none of us ever reads but the user must click on before he can download the "free" software.
Just think of data that could be mined from such information on an expenditure spreadsheet.
ETA: And I'd be willing to bet the user would give GOOG permission to access those spreadsheets on his PC when he clicks on the "I Agree" button on the ever-present "Terms of Service" 20+ page document that none of us ever reads but the user must click on before he can download the "free" software.
This post was edited on 7/22/13 at 7:53 am
Posted on 7/22/13 at 8:01 am to LSURussian
i just have months and data for each month in there that i can compare months to each other so i'm not worried about it, but there aren't ad's on the google docs page so idk, how all that works. use exel i was just offering up a suggestion. the google docs section though has user made templates so there are thousands of them to choose from.
Posted on 7/22/13 at 8:23 am to ClownQuestionBro
Have you tried mint.com? I find it to be awesome. You can go in and categorize every transaction so it falls in your budget and you can see where your money goes. You can also pull in your credit cards, mortage, car loans, student loans, etc. to show the balances and your net worth.
Posted on 7/22/13 at 6:20 pm to CQQ
Yes I have tried mint.com however I have an uneasy feeling with them having access to all my accounts. Secondly, I don't really want the auto update my accounts feature. I just want to know expenses versus projected income.
Posted on 7/22/13 at 8:24 pm to ClownQuestionBro
IMO, mint.com or quicken are much better. why manually update spreadsheets when everything is automated these days?
Posted on 7/22/13 at 9:58 pm to aaronb023
It's for planning purposes only. Mint is great real time to track but I don't care about tracking I just want to use it for planning various scenarios.
Posted on 7/22/13 at 11:16 pm to ClownQuestionBro
You know they have a goals function that you can utilize right?
Posted on 7/23/13 at 12:46 am to HoLeInOnEr05
I have an Excel sheet for financial planning purposes. I have data for income, deductions, taxes, expenses, credit, bank accounts, and investments, with projections for this year and next. I also have a rough retirement calculator using some of those numbers. I use mint to track monthly budgeting.
I can make a template but I only have the taxes and deductions calculated for my income range.
I can make a template but I only have the taxes and deductions calculated for my income range.
Posted on 7/23/13 at 8:00 am to HoLeInOnEr05
quote:
You know they have a goals function that you can utilize right?
This. It will let you set a goal and tell you how much you have left to put towards that goal. I have a separate savings acct for a down payment on a house. Once I pull that acct in, mint can tell me how close I am to it, etc.
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