Budgeting

A budget plans for and tracks income and expenses over a specific time period. Businesses and governments rely on budgets to track revenues and expenditures, but you might be most familiar with a budget as a tool for managing your finances.

To meet short- and long-term financial goals, it is important to plan ahead. These resources will walk you through all aspects of financial planning, teaching you to control your income, expenses, and investments in a way that best works for you.

If you want to get a hold on your finances, you need to control your spending—and that starts with establishing a budget. Learn how to create a budget, best practices for sticking to it, the latest budgeting software available to you, and more.

Using budget software can make setting up and managing a personal budget easier, faster and more accurate because it automatically pulls income and expense transactions from each of your financial accounts.