Budgeting is primarily about controlling spending and allocating savings. How to save, how much to save, and how to track your savings are the topics for this part of the blog. Vertex42 provides a number of different spreadsheets to help you:
Vertex42 has developed a new Savings Snowball Calculator to help you plan how to reach your savings and debt payoff goals. This article provides some background on the savings snowball concept and explains some of the features of the calculator. Questions and comments are welcome.
To help those who are using Vertex42’s budget templates and money management tools, we’ve compiled a huge list of effective ways to save money and help you stick to your family budget.
How will you help your child save for college? This could be a scary thought. For one thing, most people have no idea how much college is going to cost years from now when their child starts attending. The actual amount is as varied as [...]
Answering the question “How much do I need to save for retirement?” requires you to estimate how much you think you could live on after you retire. But, don’t forget about inflation. If you think you could live on $75,000 [...]
If you budget, surely you’ve had to deal with the problem of how to track your savings goals. Do you do it within your budget somehow? Do you try to make Quicken do what you want? Perhaps you’ve tried the [...]