![]() Personal Finance +More All Personal Finance Best Budgeting Apps Best Expense Tracker Apps Best Money Transfer Apps Best Resale Apps and Sites Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) Apps Best Debt Relief Best Mortgages for Average Credit Score.Best Loans to Refinance Credit Card Debt.What about you? Do you use spreadsheets to track and manage your finances? Please share your thoughts and examples in the comments section. From time to time I have shared those techniques here on too. I have built several workbooks to track budgets, vacation plans, retirement scenarios, self-employment cash flows and house purchases. I have used spreadsheets to track money soon after I started my first job 15 years ago. Read more about Excel treemaps and sunburst charts | Another example of treemap – customer service dashboard Do you use Excel to track and manage money? In fact, I have created another version of the spreadsheet with column charts so that you can use it in earlier versions of Excel. But if you want, you can use column / bar / donut / pie charts too. I have used Treemaps because they work well with data like this. In the settings page, we can harvest all category level spending in one column and then feed that to any chart in Excel. Spending by category graph – Treemap (Excel 2016) Use CTRL+Click to multi-select the cells.ģ. We just set up databar on all cells in one go (so Excel can relatively size them based on values). ![]() The databar cells have a reference to totals calculated in cells above. This data bar is made with Conditional Formatting. Quick visualization of category level spendingĪs you enter values, you can see a quick total (arrived thru the formulas explained above) and a data bar. Read up more about SUMIFS and SUMPRODUCT formulas.Ģ. If there is an error (typos / no data etc.) we show 0. We then multiply that with amounts in G7:G26 thru SUMPRODUCT and finally divide this with 12 to get monthly value. We are fetching an array of multiplication factors from freqs table (shown aside) using SUMIFS. Say you have amounts in G7:G26 and frequencies in H7:H26. Using SUMPRODUCT and SUMIFS, we can calculate total amount per category by month, like below.There is a frequency mapping table in the “Settings” tab to help calculate monthly totals from various amounts at different frequencies.Calculation of monthly totals by category: There are three components in the budget spreadsheet:ġ. The graph on left helps you see the big picture and optimize your spending / savings.The BALANCE row on the left turns RED if you spend more than you make.As you type data, category level summaries are shown on top along with a data bar to show relative expenditure of each category. ![]() You can select various frequencies (for example public transport – $16 per week, dining out $70 per month etc.)
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