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How to Manage Your Finances
Today, I’m going to give advice on managing your cash flow. One of the most important to consider, when managing your personal finances, is to treat yourself as a business. Businesses live and die on cash flow. If a business runs out of cash, it fails.
Managing your cash flow in today’s world is necessary for financial success. The first step is to log all your income sources. For most, this is easy. Include all ways you get money. Obviously the biggest source is probably your job. Others include money from investments, interest, bonuses, child support, alimony, and allowances.
Next, you want to estimate your expenses. Include everything you spend money on. Groceries, gas, tuition, utilities, rent, credit card payments, mortgages, eating out, insurance, and anything else you can think of.
The next step is to put everything into a spreadsheet. This is important because it gives you an easy way to view all the information and make comparisons. Start your spreadsheet with you income page. The spreadsheet will have three columns for each month; estimated, actual, and variance. This will include all those sources of income you just listed. List the items in whatever order you wish, with a summation ... more

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