Budgeting Resources & Tools
Developing and tracking a personal budget is an immediate way to gain awareness and control of your expenses and spending habits.
Here is a Budgeting Guide that can help with starting a personal budget.
Here is a free Budget Planner from Nerd Wallet which helps you use the 50/30/20 budgeting rule.
CashCourse also offers a free Budgeting tool called the "Budget Wizard." Check out our guide to sign up!
Budget sheets made by the Financial Wellness Group!
For those that prefer to track their budget digitally and on the go, we have also put together different Google Sheet budget tools. These forms includes pre-made formulas, so you can just enter in your information!
Explore which budget sheet is right for you!
Looking for a simple budget sheet to track your total monthly costs across the year? This general spreadsheet is best for you!
Looking for a more in-depth & personalizable budget sheet? Try out our advanced budget sheet which has a running transaction log for you to log each expense, and set goals for how much you want to spend in different categories to lower your spending!
Trying to make your Meal Points last throughout the semester? We have curated budget spreadsheets for each Meal plan to help you track your spending at Commons and Canyon Cafe!
Once you've opened the spreadsheet(s), click File > Make a Copy to save an editable, personal version of the spreadsheet to your Google Drive.
You can also view our short tutorial videos to help explain and guide you through each spreadsheet tool. Press here to view the tutorial for the Basic Monthly Budget Sheet. Press here to view the tutorial for the Advanced Monthly Budget Sheet.
You can download the Google Sheets app to your phone to track and adjust budget no matter where you are! The Google Sheets app can be found here for Apple users and here for Android users.