Budgeting spreadsheet

Mandie71

Hi,
Does anyone have a spreadsheet template that I can use to enter the regular income & outgoings that I have, but also to input my daily/weekly expenditure as I spend it so that I can keep track of how much money I should have at any given time? I can then balance this against my bank statements too.
Thanks
Mandie

KPR11

Mandie71 wrote: »

Hi,
Does anyone have a spreadsheet template that I can use to enter the regular income & outgoings that I have, but also to input my daily/weekly expenditure as I spend it so that I can keep track of how much money I should have at any given time? I can then balance this against my bank statements too.
Thanks
Mandie

I think Microsoft Money is really good. You can download it for free, I am sorry I can't find the link but I am sure you will find it if you google it.

getmore4less

I agree one of the packages (even though no longer supported in the UK) give the best solution with lots of builting features for budgeting and forcasting if you don't want to put much work into customizing something like a spreadsheet..

MS Money still does the job well, some like Quicken better.

It can take a bit of time setting up the accounts and catagories but once that is done it becomes a regular data entry task with reviews and reporting as and when you want to do some analysis.

missile

Have you tried this?> http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/banking/Budget-planning?dd

jimjames

I still use Microsoft Money 2000 but I'm not aware that you can legally download it for free. They have now stopped making new versions of it but the 2000 version works fine for me.

The one package that is free is called GNU Cash. You can download that and setup but it isn't as easy as MS Money.

If you have a look at fool.co.uk I believe there are some spreadsheets available that you can use.

Andy

datostar

jimjames wrote: »

I still use Microsoft Money 2000 but I'm not aware that you can legally download it for free. They have now stopped making new versions of it but the 2000 version works fine for me.

The one package that is free is called GNU Cash. You can download that and setup but it isn't as easy as MS Money.

If you have a look at fool.co.uk I believe there are some spreadsheets available that you can use.

Andy

Microsoft are giving away the last US version of Money by way of download from their site. You can change $ to £ but there'll be of a lot of irrelevant stuff like 401K plans and whatnot. It's certainly usable in the UK but you cannot convert existing UK files.

xrjtg

jimjames wrote: »

The one package that is free is called GNU Cash. You can download that and setup but it isn't as easy as MS Money.

There are other free (libre) accounting packages, but none of them looked as useful as Gnucash when I investigated them. I can certainly recommend it for keeping accounts, but it probably isn't so suitable for budgeting as there's no facility to enter planned expenditure (you can forward date transactions, but you'd have to edit them to agree with what actually happens as you go along, and it wouldn't be obvious which transactions had received this treatment).

pmduk

I'd also look at the opensource freeware Money Manager Ex