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| Instructions | |||
| Household Budget lets you create the budgeted entries for your income and expenses including but not limited to housing, food, transportation, clothes and personal services, healthcare, entertainment, education, contributions and debt payments, and their sub-categories, on a monthly and yearly basis. | |||
| You can also set goals to manage your budget on a monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or yearly basis. Further, you can create what-if scenarios for your income and expenses to better manage and plan your finances. | |||
| How to use the Household Budget application? | |||
| Open the default file. | |||
| Click on the Income tab and enter the budgeted entries. | |||
| Click on the Expenses Tab and enter the expenses for different categories. | |||
| Click on the Summary Tab. | |||
| Graphically visualize different kinds of expenses incurred to the total monthly expense, and how your monthly and annual savings change with the addition of income and expenses. | |||
| Click on the Goals Tab. | |||
| Enter the Goal description, amount, term (in months) for a respective goal number. Monthly and weekly goal values are automatically calculated for you. | |||
| Enter the different steps/ways to achieve the goal in "How to Achieve" section. | |||
| How to fill entries in the Expenses tab? | |||
| Click on the Expenses Tab. | |||
| Enter the monthly budget values for the different expense fields under the respective categories and subcategories. | |||
| Generally, the editable field have a cell border for entering their respective values. Clicking on the cell opens an input box. | |||
| Yearly values are automatically calculated for you. | |||
| You can edit or modify "other" for adding more expense fields or you can add them in the existing expense fields by modifying their names, and adding them together under one common heading. | |||
| Example - Cable and Dish expense is clubbed under TV-Cable, Dish, Other under Utilities expense category. | |||
| Visualize the contribution of the different categories of expense to the total expense through pie chart by clicking on the Summary Tab. | |||
| Instructions | |||
| Household Budget lets you create the budgeted entries for your income and expenses including but not limited to housing, food, transportation, clothes and personal services, healthcare, entertainment, education, contributions and debt payments, and their sub-categories, on a monthly and yearly basis. | |||
| You can also set goals to manage your budget on a monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or yearly basis. Further, you can create what-if scenarios for your income and expenses to better manage and plan your finances. | |||
| How to use the Household Budget application? | |||
| Open the default file. | |||
| Click on the Income tab and enter the budgeted entries. | |||
| Click on the Expenses Tab and enter the expenses for different categories. | |||
| Click on the Summary Tab. | |||
| Graphically visualize different kinds of expenses incurred to the total monthly expense, and how your monthly and annual savings change with the addition of income and expenses. | |||
| Click on the Goals Tab. | |||
| Enter the Goal description, amount, term (in months) for a respective goal number. Monthly and weekly goal values are automatically calculated for you. | |||
| Enter the different steps/ways to achieve the goal in "How to Achieve" section. | |||
| How to fill entries in the Expenses tab? | |||
| Click on the Expenses Tab. | |||
| Enter the monthly budget values for the different expense fields under the respective categories and subcategories. | |||
| Generally, the editable field have a cell border for entering their respective values. Clicking on the cell opens an input box. | |||
| Yearly values are automatically calculated for you. | |||
| You can edit or modify "other" for adding more expense fields or you can add them in the existing expense fields by modifying their names, and adding them together under one common heading. | |||
| Example - Cable and Dish expense is clubbed under TV-Cable, Dish, Other under Utilities expense category. | |||
| Visualize the contribution of the different categories of expense to the total expense through pie chart by clicking on the Summary Tab. | |||