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Budget Spreadsheet

Many people like to track their monthly expenses using a simple budget spreadsheet.  Some of the basic areas that you might out on your budget spreadsheet are the accounts that you want to keep a close watch on to determine if you are keeping up with your bills.  For example, if you want to account for the amount that you have been spending on rent for the last year, you would simply make a column in your new budget spreadsheet titled rent.  If you wanted to track the expenses for additional expenses all you would have to do is add another column next to the rent column and title that column whatever that expense is.  For instance, if you need to know how much you have been spending on electricity, then you would title the column electricity.  For every expense, that you want to account for, you just simply add another column and then title that column the name of the expense that you want to track.

Then after you have created all of the columns that you want for the budget spreadsheet, then it would be time to start tracking all of these expenses according to the time frame in which the expense were made.  To do this, you simply start creating titles for each row that you want to record the expense period date for.  In order to leave enough room for changes on your new budget spreadsheet, you may want to leave a space between each row to insert ad hoc moves, ads, or changes.

Creating a budget spreadsheet is not too difficult a task to manage.  However, remembering to actually use one is a different matter altogether!

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