MOVED MONEY TO SAVINGS? DO NOT COUNT IT TWICE.
In a spending-cash budget, moving money to savings reduces the amount
left in that spending pot. It is still your money, but it has moved to a
different place.
Use Expense for purchases and Debt for debt payments, following the
instructions included in the workbook.
The closing cash figure is the balance for the spending cash you are tracking. It is not a statement of your total wealth or all your account balances.
If you enter the same transfer as both an expense and a savings transfer,
you subtract it twice from the tracked cash. The labels matter because
they affect how the summary is calculated.
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YOUR BUDGET NEEDS THE AWKWARD PURCHASE TOO.
The item you regret. The extra order. The payment you meant to make
next week. Leaving them out may make the page look better, but it
makes the picture less useful.
A spending difference is a reason to ask a question: was the estimate
wrong, did a need change, or was this an optional purchase you would
handle differently now?
Our planner compares recorded amounts with your plan so those
differences have somewhere to show up.
A transaction log needs what happened, not a polished version of the
month. Enter the real amount and the appropriate type. You can decide
what to change after you have an accurate starting point.
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After payday, keep recording what actually happens. At the end of the
period, review the differences and decide what to adjust next time.
Our Excel planner includes a Pay Plan tab, a transaction log, a budget &
summary.
2. List the commitments due before your next paycheck.
3. Choose realistic amounts for the outflows you plan to make.
This does not need to become a beautiful project before it becomes
useful. A clear first pass gives you something to compare with the
transactions that follow.
THE BILL WAS PREDICTABLE. THE TIMING WAS THE
SURPRISE.
A renewal, a scheduled appointment, a bill you see less often. Some costs
are easy to forget precisely because they do not show up every week.
Include the commitments you know about in your plan and record the
actual outflows when they happen. If an amount changes, use the new
information in your next review.
Use the Pay Plan tab to set the period's planned amounts and the
transaction log to capture the payments.
Before planning a paycheck, scan what is due before the following
payday. Then check whether anything less frequent falls in that window. A
recurring cost and an unexpected emergency are different planning
problems.
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