Personal Finance Manager 2025 (Free Excel Budget template)

This is a simple free Personal Finance management excel template that focuses on making it easy for you to know what’s happening with your financial situation especially when you have multiple bank accounts, credit card accounts and cash.

This Excel Budget template also helps you set budgets and see how you are actually doing against your budget.

With simple data entry, the template provides you instant access to actionable information in a consumable form that can answer key questions regarding your personal financial situation.

Specifically, the template helps you in knowing the following:

  • How much money is in my different bank accounts?
  • How much do I owe on credit cards?
  • On what items am I spending my money on?
  • Am I exceeding my monthly budget? If so, in which categories?
  • How are my expenses trending over time?
  • Am I spending more on any specific expense category over time?
  • How much am I saving every month? How does that add to my net balance?

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This version doesn’t use Pivot Tables and Slicers. 4 Charts that are available in Excel 2010 file are not available in this.

Requirements

Excel 2010 and above for Windows

Excel 2011 for Mac


Video Demo

Click here to view on YouTube


How to track personal finances in Excel?

The template has 3 worksheets: 1) Settings 2) Transactions and 3) Report.

STEP 1: Enter information in Settings worksheet

  • Enter Accounts (bank accounts, Credit Card Accounts and Cash Accounts)
  • Set your starting balances of accounts
Personal Finance Management - Accounts Set up
Personal Finance Management – Accounts Set up
  • Create categories & Subcategories (trust me, this helps)
  • Set your monthly budgets
  • Excel Budget Template - Set Categories and Budget

STEP 2: Entering transactions in the Transactions worksheet

When you open the template, there will be no records in the Transactions worksheet (as shown in the image below). Start entering your own transactions.

Enter Financial Transactions
Enter Financial Transactions

3 Types of Transactions

  • Income and Expense: By default, all the Income and Expense transactions should be entered as positive amounts.
    • Special case (Refund): If you purchased an item at a store, you would enter an Expense transaction with positive amount. If, a few days later, you returned the item to the store for some reason and get a refund, then you should enter the refund as a new Expense transaction with negative value.
  • Transfer: When money is transferred from one account to another, create two records
    • ‘Transfer’ type with negative amount from the account you are taking the money from.
    • ‘Transfer’ type with positive amount for the account you are depositing the money into.
    • Examples of Transfers are Credit Card Payment (transfer from Bank account to Credit Card account) and ATM withdrawal (transfer from Bank account to Cash)
  • Drop down menus are available for easy data entry in these fields (Type, Category, SubCategory, Account).

After you enter your transactions, the Transactions worksheet would look like this image below.

Sample Money Transactions
Sample Money Transactions

STEP 3: View Report

Since there are pivot tables and charts, please refresh the data by going to Data ribbon and refresh all (or keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+F5) . This updates the charts with your new transactions.

How to refresh Report in the Excel Budget Template
How to refresh Report in the Excel Budget Template

Report sheet is locked to prevent accidental editing of formulas. To unlock, use password indzara

The report has four pages.

1) Summary

  • Summary of your current financial status
Summary of Current Status
Summary of Current Status

You can find balances for any period in each of your accounts using this personal account template.

Choose Bank Account in Report
Choose Bank Account in Report

This can be helpful when your bank statements and credit card statements actually have their billing cycles different from calendar months. This allows you to compare your statements with the data you have in this template and confirm that you have not missed any transactions.

Transaction Summary for chosen Period – Beginning and Ending Balance
Transaction Summary for chosen Period – Beginning and Ending Balance

The chart shows the trend of month-end balances in the account chosen.

Month end Balances of finances
Month end Balances of finances

2) Monthly Financial Analysis

This multiple bank account management excel template can also help in monthly financial analysis. Please choose one month at a time using the slicers at the top.

View total Income, expense and savings

Excel Budget Template – Income, Expense and Savings compared to budget
Excel Budget Template – Income, Expense and Savings compared to budget

Understand where the money came from and where it was spent, in the month

Monthly Income Categories Breakdown and Expense Categories Breakdown
  • Track whether you have exceeded the monthly budget.
  • Also see the comparison of expenses to budget by each category
  • Categories that exceeded budget will be highlighted in red
Compare Monthly Expense in each Category against Budget Set

Understand expenses by Subcategories.

Understand Expenses by Subcategories
Understand Expenses by Subcategories

Trend of expenses over time and comparing against monthly budget

Excel Budget Spreadsheet – Are my Expenses under Monthly Budget

Trend of savings and net balance over time

Excel Personal Budget Spreadsheet – Track Savings every Month and Net Balance/Worth
Excel Personal Budget Spreadsheet – Track Savings every Month and Net Balance/Worth
Trends of transactions by Categories and SubCategories
Trends of transactions by Categories and SubCategories

I hope you find this personal finance management template excel useful in managing your personal finances easily.

346 Comments

  • Very nice template but I needed multi currency template to track two different currency as I working out of India

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  • Can you try to builtin a feature where you take your bank account statements and auto populate the transactions rather than entering every transaction one by one.

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    • Thanks for using our template.

      We have not used any kind of automated features like macros in our templates yet. We will try to incorporate your suggestions in our next release.

      Best wishes

      Reply
  • In Personal Finance Manager, how can we change monthly budget to annual budget? this would be helpful for annual planning?

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    • Thanks for using our template.

      Annual planning is not a feature yet. We will try to add it in the next release.

      Best wishes

      Reply
  • The “calculated fields” don’t seem to be calculating which is affecting the monthly financial analysis, please provide direction on how to make them calculate the date. Otherwise great spreadsheet!

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    • Hello

      Please ensure that all the formulas are intact and their sequence is not broken. In case it still does not work, please email the file along with the list of issues to contact@indzara.com.

      Best wishes

      Reply
  • your template is very useful, but i am facing some problem.
    whenever i save and close the program, message shows “excel has stopped working”.
    what to do now.
    Please help.
    Thank you.

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    • Hello

      Please ensure that you have adequate disk space to save the file. Also, the template is designed for Excel 2010 or a later version.

      Thanks

      Reply
  • Hi Team Indzara.
    Liked your template very much. your works has benefited me a lot as compared to many accounting software. its ease of use. i just wanted to request you that can i modify reports sheet as per income, expense, category and sub-category wise. i am having 10,000 entries and i find it to be difficult to see.

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    • Hello

      Thanks for your feedback.

      Please share more details on what is difficult to see.

      Thanks

      Reply
  • Hi

    I want to ask you “Why I can’t see the account names, subcategory, and transaction type in the Trends?

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    • Thanks for sending the file. It appears that the field names in the Transactions sheet have been renamed and that broke the pivot table. I have sent the file to you by email.
      Best wishes.

      Reply

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