Family Monthly Budget Template Excel

Tanya Worthy November 4, 2019 Family Budget

Overspending Breaks Your Budget. The main reason to create a budget is to keep your finances under control by keeping track of how much money you are spending and where you are spending it. When you stray from your budget it is usually because your spending too much money somewhere you know you shouldn`t. But if you have a budget that tells you exactly how much you are supposed to spend, then you do not have an excuse to overspend, right? There are a number of reasons why we overspend, so when you understand what causes overspending, you are more conscious and can put a stop to overspending and keep your budget on track.

A budget needs to estimate your average (yearly) income. Spending, which will be relatively constant, needs to be maintained below that amount. A budget should allow for error and so keeping expenses 5% or 10% below the estimated income is a conservative approach. When done correctly, your budget should end any given year with about 5% of their income left over. Of course being conservative and having more than 5% is never a bad idea.

To avoid running out of money because expenses occur before the money actually arrives a "safety cushion" of excess cash (to cover those months when actual income is below estimations) should be implemented. There is no easy way to develop a safety cushion, so you will have to spend less you earn. Developing a cushion can be a challenging particularly when starting during a low spot in your earning cycle, although this is how most budgets begin. In general, personal and family budgets that start out with expenses that are 5% or 10% below your average income and should slowly develop a cushion of savings that can be accessed when earnings are below average. Whether this rate of building your cushion cushion is fast enough depends upon on how variable your income is, and whether the budgeting process starts at a high or low point during the earnings cycles.

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You will even be able to obtain budget planning sheets that can direct you towards your own personal goals. A family working hard to get out of debt for example, will have different requirements than a family planning for their retirement, or for a family preparing for the arrival of a baby. The good news is that you can easily find and adjust your budget to address all these issues whilst customizing the worksheet to better suit your needs.