Anyone can make a budget, do not need degrees to be an accountant with a good budget.

Here are some tips on steps to manage your personal budget.

1. REVIEW YOUR MONTHLY EXPENSES
Make a list of all your regular expenses, including secondary expenses such as recreation, hobbies distribution, snack eating out, etc. .. Also includes installment debt obligations, if any.

2. REVIEW YOUR MONTHLY INCOME
Write down a list and count all your income from all sources. Including side work or income from any investment.

3. Calculate EXPENDITURE ON INCOME DIFFERENCES
Here will look how much you can afford and try to set aside money in each end of the month.

4. BUDGET REVIEW OF BEEN THERE
In the event of a deficit because of higher expenses than income, continue to improve the existing pattern of expenditure to a surplus sufficient.

To enlarge the surplus could be in 2 ways:
- Increase revenue
- Outposts cut certain expenditures

The greater the surplus that you can get, the closer the time of “financial freedom” you can achieve.

5. REDUCE DEBT LOAD
When we are entangled state debt, try to get a bigger surplus / extra in order to shorten the repayment of these debts.

6. ACCUMULATION UP SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT
If you’ve managed to create a surplus, this is when the open road towards your financial goals.
Make a target or project that you want to achieve in the future, both long term and short term.

Gradually the priority will usually like this:
1. Funding needs of daily life and reserves
2. Funds to buy a home stay
3. Fund education for children 1, 2 and so on
4. Investment for pension funds

If still excessive, accumulation of the project can be made more investment funds such as:
5. Funds to buy a house 2, 3 and so on

6. Funds for holidays abroad to countries A, B, and so on

7. Fund charitable projects and other

7. Apply BUDGET CONTROL IN EVERYDAY LIFE YOU
Feel the difference in your life when you have financial awareness. Of more comfortable.
Managing the budget does not mean you have to be suffered. Keep invent expenditure for your hobbies and recreation, effectively.

8. EVALUATION OF YOUR BUDGET
At each end of the month, evaluate your expenses according to what has been budgeted. Value of your accomplishments if you have well-disciplined? Is the budget needs to be done again to improvement? Please evaluate and revise the budget for continuous improvement
There is no “finished” in the budget. Monitoring, revision, re-count, is a very common phrase in managing the budget.

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