Last week one of my co-workers mentioned he needed a tool to aid with budgeting. I have been using the Gazelle Budget web-based program during FPU, but my access was shut off last week. This is a free version of the program which helps you create and print a budget. This is all you can do as there is no ability to even save the information let alone track actuals versus budgeted.

I would pass on this one. This is a feature-packed offering that helps you budget, track income and expenditures and charts it out. It also includes alerts of upcoming bills AND is free. Now, this may be a generational preference but I just do not want to give the website access to my financial institution accounts.

This feature also does not help me since I do much of my discretionary spending with cash. Enemy of Debt aka Brad Chaffee offers a free budget excel download that includes sheets for the budget, checkbook register and savings allocations.

Because of this orientation, the budget sheet includes an allocated spending area to aid in tracking actual spending both cash and credit. Not only does J. Money have his own budget tool available free for download, he has a page providing free budget templates from other personal finance blogs and lists websites such as Mint.

This is a nice website for general planning. Just input your assets and debits and it will give you a snapshot and letter Grade of where you are today. In the tools area document all income and expenses for a spending plan.

I like that it remembers crossover information from the first step for items that pertain e. The allocated spending area tipped the scales for me. My financial picture will be tracked quarterly using SimpliFi. I like how easy I can enter the information and get a picture literally of my net worth and grade.

My co-worker liked Mint. What is a Zero-based Budget Financial Peace University Graduation.

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Just so you are aware, I will be publishing an upgrade from 2. I will be providing tutorials and budgets to print for those that do not like spread sheets, and much more.

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