Watching Expenses

Let Watching Expenses Start You On A Path To Financial Freedom!

Watching Expenses wants you to understand the how, where and amount of expenses you take on. No accounting degree is needed or required. With Watching Expenses, you develop a personalized tracking program to save and display your expenses by expense, month or year. You will know what your expenses are in real terms.

Knowing your income from various sources and your expenses as entered in Watching Expenses will keep you involved, informed and perhaps surprised and amazed at your expenses. Rather than guessing your financial position as would happen if budgeting, Watching Expenses keeps you in real time all the time. As Watching Expense is not currency specific all currencies can be tracked with one currency being used.

Based on your expense profile you can make changes as needed to continue or attain a positive balance between income and expenses. There are several components of Watching Expenses that make staying fiscally sound easy, pleasant and profitable. Under Details we outline these features.

Using Watching Expenses

Enter Categories

Food, Insurance, Loans, Phones and similar that cover areas of expenses you may incur. We provide a list of categories from which you can build your personal list. The program is about you so select categories that apply to you.

Enter Company and Expenses

With categories selected enter companies that are under the category. If food, enter the grocery stores, bodegas and wholesale clubs you visit to build a a group of companies under each category. You will be reviewing expenses based on categories and individual companies.

Enter Expenses into the Entry Expenses Form

This is the main form (shown at left) where you click on a category, company, select the month, day and year, date then enter the expense information. Select the Save option and the expense has been entered. Repeat the process for each expense.

See Year-To-Date Expense Totals Now

As each expense is saved the totals year-to-date for each Company and Expense is updated and shown in the right column of the form. The total expense cost of all companies is shown too. A mouse click on a specific company will show the percentage the total of the company expenses is to total expenses.

Two lists of Expenses inform you of expenses

The large list in the center shows all expenses entered for the current year. The total expense amount is also shown. The lower list shows results of searches of a specific company. All transactions are shown with the total amount for the year also shown.

Watching Expenses Provides More

Pages lists the other valuable aspects of Watching Expenses that will enhance your understanding of how you incur expenses and the effect each has on your overall financial well-being on a personal or family level.