Keeping track of expenses is important for every household to be able to see how the money is spend. This gives those that keep track the opportunity to optimize their budget. Home budget software is but one possibility on how to keep track of the budget and expenses. Software has several advantages over paper based variants of budgeting. The main are that it is capable of computing all kinds of statistics and graphs to give the user a better overview of the budget and expenses.
It is also easier to maintain as repetitive tasks can usually be automated. Family Budget Planner is a free home budget software for the Windows operating system. It requires the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 SP1 and the Microsoft SQL Compact 3.5 SP1 Runtime. It has been designed with ease of use in mind. Users can add companies and expenses to the software program. Companies do not necessarily have to be company names, it is also possible to use categories like “home”, “insurance” or “food” instead. It is possible to add multiple expenses to each company that has been added previously. Each expense is associated with a specific amount of money, a name, start day and interval.
Expenses can be sorted by various means including highest, lowest, company or occurrence. The home budgeting software will calculate and display several reports that show weekly estimates, yearly figures and a report budget for the active month.
Family Budget Planner is a basic software to keep track of budgets. It does not come with advanced features like bank account integration, income reports or means to import and export figures from and to other applications and formats. This makes it attractive for users who want to keep a simple overview of their expenses without having to go into to much detail.
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Nice that .pdf handbook/user guide. Indeed ferry handy to use. Thanks for the tip Martin.