2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
A monthly budget is very important for every family. The ability to plan it is no less important task. Gone are the days when housewives kept family budgets in their thick greasy notebooks. The development of computer technology allows any family to forecast their financial balance for a month. The Internet is teeming with an abundance of programs for managing family budgets, companies, developers, in pursuit of clients, supplement their programs with all kinds of charts and reports, their feasibility and functionality are sometimes very doubtful. My advice to you: start with the simplest and most sensible program that will allow you not to waste your evenings on a flight, clogging up data and frantically analyzing balances.
One of the very good, and at the same time, simple programs is AleeexPRO Lite Family Budget 3. It is distributed free of charge. this is a stripped-down version, although its functionality is not affected. An intuitive and simple interface will allow both a seasoned financier and a blonde housewife to manage a budget without unnecessary problems.
It will be easy even for your child to figure out that the button with the pictured "basket" means expenses that you have incurred or are planning to incur, and the "wallet" means dad and mom's income. In addition to the standard names of income and expenses, you can enter your own, for example, like income called "Dad won the lottery", etc. Your monthly balance (the difference between income and expense) is always displayed at the top in the program, and “total” is at the bottom, this is the amount either income or expense, it all depends on what data you are working with.
Just in case, it is possible to set a password for reporting the holy of holies of your family. As you can see, everything is very simple and clear, it will be easy for you to manage your family budget, even if you have never done any calculations.
In fact, keeping a budget is the first, serious step to financial wealth. Perhaps some of you will be skeptical about this issue, but nevertheless, I will suggest that you try to keep your budget for three months, entering data into the program every day will take no more than 15 minutes. As a result of your fruitful work, you will receive invaluable benefits. You can predict how much and what you need for the next month. Perhaps you will think that it would be better to buy something in bulk and cut costs somewhere. Teach your children to plan expenses, “I didn't think in advance that you need to buy a new big toy, and you won’t get it…”, teach them that having money in your wallet does not depend on the abundance of tears and the strength of whining.
In general, you will be able to take control of your life, and a new day will not become a new struggle for you, at the most crucial moment one roll of toilet paper will still end up on the shelf, and you will be able to breathe with relief, relax, because what is what, but life just wonderful.
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