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Budget Tracker

Budget vs. actual by category with variance in dollars and percent, plus totals — negative variance shows in red automatically.

Made for: Small business owners, team leads, and anyone managing a monthly or project budget.

Download for Excel (.xlsx)

Free, no sign-up. For Google Sheets: upload via File → Import — all formulas carry over.

What's inside (sample rows)
1CategoryBudgetActualVariance
2Payroll1800018450450
3Marketing30002100-900
4Software9001140240

Formulas built in

=C2-B2
Variance in dollars
=IF(B2=0,"",(C2-B2)/B2)
Variance percent, safe against empty budgets
=SUM(B2:B6)
Category totals