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Budget Templates

Student Budget Templates

Student money doesn't behave like anyone else's. Instead of a salary arriving every month, a loan or grant instalment lands two or three times a year and has to stretch until the next one — which is why standard monthly budget templates are the wrong tool for a term. The free templates below work the way student finances actually do: start with the money you have for the term, take out what's already committed, and turn the rest into a weekly amount you can live on. Why Student Budgeting Works Differently Most budgeting advice assumes income arrives monthly and expenses… Read More

Household Budget Templates

A household budget is a budget with more than one person in it — which makes it a different problem from a personal one. The numbers are only half of it; the other half is agreeing how two incomes and two sets of habits meet in one set of bills. The free templates below are built for that: two income columns, shared and individual expenses kept apart, and space for the costs that come with children. For the month-by-month method itself, see our monthly budget templates; for annual planning, irregular income, and savings goals, see our personal budget templates. How… Read More

Film Budget Templates

A film budget is the costed plan for a production: every department, every shooting day, every piece of hired equipment, priced before anyone turns a camera on. It's what investors and funders read before committing money, and what the production accountant measures actual spend against once shooting starts. The free templates below are editable budget forms, and beneath them you'll find how film budgets are structured, a top sheet example, and the order in which a budget actually gets built. How a Film Budget Is Organized Film budgets everywhere use the same four-part structure, and knowing the vocabulary matters —… Read More

Free Personal Budget Templates

A personal budget is your plan for your own money — and while the classic version is a month-by-month plan (covered in depth, with the 50/30/20 rule and a worked example, on our monthly budget templates page), real life doesn't always fit neatly into months. This page covers the situations a single monthly sheet handles badly: yearly expenses that ambush you in one month, income that changes month to month, getting paid every two weeks, and saving toward a specific goal. The free templates below are MS Excel files with formulas built in, and they open in Google Sheets and… Read More

Free Monthly Budget Templates

A monthly budget is a simple plan for one month's money: what's coming in, what's going out, and what's left for savings. The free templates below are MS Excel files with the formulas already built in — enter your income and expenses, and the totals and remaining balance update automatically. That's the advantage of a spreadsheet budget over a printable one: no arithmetic, no eraser. The files also open in Google Sheets and LibreOffice. Below the downloads you'll find the standard budget structure, a filled-in example, and a plain explanation of the 50/30/20 guideline. How a Monthly Budget Is Structured… Read More