Couldn't save up enough money? Often ending up the month with a bad check? If you want to take control of your spendings and achieve your financial goals, you need to start planning your budget. And Google Sheets is a great free alternative to different financial apps that often have to be paid!

To follow along our tutorial, make your copy of the practice sheet: https://bit.ly/rw-budget-tracker

Watch the next part of our Budget Series on how to Plan a Budget here: https://youtu.be/12-q_I7N6JY

After watching this video, you’ll learn how to:
Work with the budget tracking templates
Follow your personal income and expenses
Use different Gsheets functions
Transfer data fromone sheet to another

Timestamps on how to:
0:00 Why to start Budgeting
0:10 What is a Personal Budget
0:38 Why to use Google Sheets for Personal Budget Management
0:48 What you'll learn in this video
1:08 How Budget Tracking Works
1:28 Template structure
2:09 Define your Income Sources
2:49 How to create a dropdown list in Google Sheets
3:33 Gsheets Shortcut for the today's date
4:17 Types of Expenses
4:50 Savings and Financial Goals
5:35 Total your expenses and income using the SUM/SUMIF functions in Google Sheets
9:04 Summary

Read Railsware article about Google Sheets: https://bit.ly/gsheets-article
Watch our videos on SUM https://youtu.be/PzNglh81NAM functions in Google Sheets!

Try Coupler.io for the safe data import from various tools to GSheets. Visit Coupler.io website for more details: https://bit.ly/best-gsheets-addon
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Design and video production: Oleg Gorovoi
Case creator: Natalia Gorovaia
Speaker: Karina Plastun

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