Spreadsheet for a children's home

flyer

Hi all. I'm looking for a spreadsheet whereby the home can have a monthly budget for, say, children's food, and whenever they go shopping, they enter the amount spent and it draws down against the budget so the manager can always see what is left. Is anyone aware of such a thing?

Emmia

That sounds like a standard spreadsheet with suitable formulae...

flyer

I'm not an expert on Excel so I'm hopefully looking for a template I can adapt?

elsien

Is it a care home that is part of the local authority, or a private company because generally speaking they would already have software in place for you to use?

because presumably there would be other categories that you also need to monitor, such as utility bills, recreation etc? 

flyer

It's private

flyer

Yes, I would adapt the template to cover other expenditure

Emmia

flyer said:

Yes, I would adapt the template to cover other expenditure

But if you don't know how to create this, how will you adapt it ensuring you don't muck up the formulae?

Have you got access to Microsoft Excel? Microsoft do a lot of free templates and I'm sure there's one that would be suitable.

Vitor

https://create.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/business-budgets

elsien

Honestly, I’d be chucking this one back at the owner. If they want the manager to do a half decent job  then they need to provide the tools for you to do so. 

(Ex/care home manager here.)

Heedtheadvice

I can appreciate your comments Elsie's bit it could also be in Flyer's interest to propose this or show initiative, as examples.

If a small cost is available then one such as https://www.excel-skills.co.uk/petty-cash-template.php?sesreq=1315296202507151941&ctime=1752608523 could well be suitable with minor changes.

flyer

elsien said:

Honestly, I’d be chucking this one back at the owner. If they want the manager to do a half decent job  then they need to provide the tools for you to do so. 

(Ex/care home manager here.)

I am the owner!