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Bal-bom |
Adjustment |
Bal-eom |
Notes |
Notes: |
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Column A - List all your expenses - monthly and non-monthly. |
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Budget amounts are
negative. |
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0.00 |
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This is how much you need to set aside each month for this
expense |
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Payments you make are positive. This can be via check, credit
card or bank debit or cash. |
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Balance (beginning of the month) - copy the amount you see from the previous months
column F |
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Adjustment is normally not used, but can be used to adjust
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Balance (end of the month) - This column show you the balance of this particular expense. |
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Notes area is to write down notes about that month's expenses. |
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Non-Monthly expenses are things life or car insurance which
only come due every six months or yearly. |
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Saving (10% or more) should be automatically taken out of your paycheck and put |
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into a savings account. These savings are not figured into you monthly living expenses. |
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STEP BY STEP |
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Monthly Budget - Step by Step |
| Non-Monthly |
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Col. A - list all of your
expenses - monthly and non-monthly. |
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Col. B - List the amount of
money you need to set aside for this expense each month. |
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These are always negative
numbers. |
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Figure your annual expense and
divide by twelve. |
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If you’re planning a vacation
and plan on spending $2400. |
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Then divide that amount by 12
and you would enter -$200 in this column. |
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Col C - These are your actual
cash payments. If it comes out of your bank account then it’s a payment.
Credit card payments are only counted when they are actually paid. |
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Col. D - is the balance at the
Beginning Of Month (BOM). |
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You bring this figure over from
Col F. of the previous month. |
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Col. E. -
are adjustments to bring you back into balance. |
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Normally you don’t use this
column. |
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Col. F - is your Balance at the
end of the month. (EOM) |
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Col. G - are for any notes you
might want to make about this months activities. |
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| TOTALS |
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1. Each month open the budget
from the previous month and rename it to the current month. |
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CASH |
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2. Copy the balance from column
F(EOM) and type it into column D(BOM) |
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3. Delete the numbers in the
payment column C from the previous month. |
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SUMMARY |
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4. Go through your bills and
entire the expenses you paid for the month |
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5. In the CASH column, enter the
amount of amount of money you have in your checking account at the end of the month. |
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Your Summary - F56 is how you
did at the end of the month. |
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It should be either at ZERO or
be a positive amount. |
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