Budgeting Step by Step
By Larry Darter
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Budgets shouldn't feel restrictive but empowering. Learning how to budget shouldn't be a dreary or tedious experience. Want to become a better money manager by learning how to make and keep a budget that works for you? This step-by-step guide to creating a budget shows you how by providing you all the essential information on budgeting in an understandable and easily digestible way. Topics include;
•Establishing and prioritizing financial goals
•Budget forms
•Choosing a budget format
•The nuts and bolts of making a budget
•How to stay on track with your budget
This book also shows you why developing the habit of regular saving is so important to successful budgeting and building a solid financial future.
Larry Darter
Larry Darter is an American author best known for his crime fiction novels written about the fictional private detective Malone. He is a former U.S. Army infantry officer, and a retired law enforcement officer. He lives with his family in Oklahoma.
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Budgeting Step by Step - Larry Darter
BUDGETING
Step by Step
By Larry Darter
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2016 Larry Darter
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Contents
1 Why So Many People Don't Have a Budget
2 Why You Need a Budget
3 Setting Goals
4 Paycheck Frequency
5 How to Make a Budget
6 The Minimalist Approach to Budgeting
7 Staying on Budget
8 Keeping Your Budget Updated
9 The Ten-Percent Solution
10 Final Thoughts
1
Why So Many People Don't Have a Budget
There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
Yogi Berra
If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times. You need a budget.
Financial experts have been repeating it like a mantra for years. You've read in every personal finance book you've ever picked up to read. You probably even heard it from your parents.
Chances are, by now you're probably sick of hearing about budgets. But it's one of those financial lessons so important that it bears repeating, you do need a budget.
Few people enjoy making and keeping a budget. According to a Gallup poll, only 32 percent of Americans put together a budget each month to track income and expenses. Just 30 percent have a long-term financial plan detailing savings and investment goals. And as the old adage goes, failing to plan is a plan to fail.
Here, in no particular order, are five reasons people most often give for not having a budget, in no particular order:
Budgets are too restrictive.
Don't know how to make a budget.
Making and keeping a budget is too time consuming.
Making a budget is too complicated.
Budgets never work.
Budgets aren't really restrictive at all. Consider this analogy. A speed limit sign has no power to prevent you from speeding. A speed limit sign merely informs you what the maximum speed limit is at a particular location and forces you to think about the possible consequences of a decision to exceed the speed limit when you are running late and tempted to drive too fast. Hopefully the sign gives you pause to think about the potential unpleasant consequences of speeding should you be caught by the police; consequences like receiving a traffic ticket, having to pay a fine, and paying higher insurance premiums for the next couple of years. A budget is quite similar.
A budget has no power to stop you from living beyond your means. It will only inform you of your spending limits based on your income and your particular monthly expenses at a particular point in time. Having a budget forces you to consider the possible consequences of a decision to live beyond your means when you are tempted to spend money for something you really can't afford. Hopefully just as speed limit signs can sometimes remind us that speeding is almost never worth the risk, a budget also can dissuade us from living beyond our means. But you can still choose to ignore your