By having your own personalized free budget spreadsheet you can keep your personal finances organized and control your spending and debt. A well tuned personal finance spreadsheet can help you plan your financial future. All of this sounds good? Well, next you’re probably thinking where can you find the best budget spreadsheet? No worries, we’ll give you the best budget spreadsheet that’s free in 2020 below:
How To Use It:
– Download the spreadsheet here.
- Blue text = manual type for current/past numbers
- Green text = manual type for future numbers
- Black Text = Formula driven
- Blue fill with black type = manual type for future numbers (budget)
To update the monthly budget sheet:
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Go to the transactions section of www.mint.com
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Scroll to the bottom and click export all transactions
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Copy and paste the data in the transactions tab
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Update the row labels (column A) on the Monthly budget sheet to match your categories on mint
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Every month, drag the formulas over your manually typed budget numbers
To update the income sheet:
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Fill in past info from past W2’s that you have saved
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Update health insurance numbers
To update the asset sheet:
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Add in your contributions in the top section based upon account type
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Add in your net worth balances
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Update assumptions in AP19 and AP20
Feedback
Most of the sheet is formula driven and relies upon an export from www.mint.com
- This spreadsheet is amazing. But the tax and the SSI portions are subject to government policy changes since it won’t stay the same in perpetuity, therefore, how do you keep it so that each column year is referencing the correct tax policies for that year? Also, the admin maintenance of this sheet beyond this year seems like it might take up a lot of time?
- I’m seriously impressed. Good job!
- It’s rather easy to adjust the sheet. Of course, policies are subject to change, but they rarely do in serious ways. Thus using what is and increasing by inflation is bound to give a reasonable forecast.
