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• 05.20.08
  Budget Hack: SUMIF To The Rescue Budgets | (3)

  One of the tricks I use in my monthly budget spreadsheets is the SUMIF function. This is a powerful tool that helps me to easily summarize the financial information I record in the transaction section of my budget spreadsheet into clear categories for me to analyze and assess. I am able to track the monthly spending of all my budget categories with zero hassel - and it even helps me track how much my wife and I charge on our credit card each moth. The SUMIF function is very straightforward to use and it only takes a second ...

  Tagged: budget hacks, budgeting, excel budget, excel formulas, open office budget, spreadsheets
  
• 03.03.08
  February Budget: Keep On Keeping On Budgets, Money Management | (0)

  This was a stellar month for us in terms of our monthly budget. Here are the numbers: We ran under budget in every category save our entertainment category which saw an unexpected rise in the cost of our Napster subscription. Oh what I would give for the glory days of Napster when I could download songs for free with a clear conscious because I wasn't wise to the fact that it was probably stealing. Stupid stealing stuff posing as free stuff. All told, we were 5.97% under budget this month. Riding the bus has kept our gas expense ...

  Tagged: budgeting, excel budget
  
• 12.28.07
  Getting It Down to the Penny Budgets | (0)

  In my goals for the new year I mentioned that I wanted to improve my financial tracking "software" and get it to the point where it knows where all my money is at down to the penny. To help all my avid and veracious readers know a little bit more about what I mean by that I figured I should probably give those phantoms a little bit of information about my awesome and awe-inspiring tracking arrangement. What I Got Practically on the day my wife and I got back from our honeymoon I built our first financial spreadsheet. ...

  Tagged: budgeting, excel budget, goals, open office budget, spreadsheets
  

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