ABP #291 - Budget Stress Testing

<p>How a hospital accounts for its cost of goods sold.</p> 

The accounting for community development financial institutions. 

Problems with paying foreign parties. 

To many, it's a dreaded task: making a budget to keep track of money. Guess what? You can do it, and we show you some tools that can help — maybe even make it fun. The founder of the popular budgeting software You Need A Budget tells us how to track your spending. Here's what to ... Show More

Six letters – BUDGET – probably one of the most despised combinations of letters in the English language, but that’s because you’re thinking about it all wrong. A budget isn’t a set in stone document that is some formal decree telling what you can and can’t spend your money on. I ... Show More

When a crisis hits, like the world-wild Cornavirus crisis, it's time to get focused on your budget. Admittedly, I'm not a huge fan of the word "budget" but desperate times call for desperate measures. In this bonus episode, I'll share seven things you need to know to budget durin ... Show More

Whether you're paying down credit cards or saving for daily necessities, the best place to start is with a budget. Some simple tools can help. (This episode first ran in November 2019.) Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy 

Learn a phrase for when you need to change a budget to do something else. 

You want to change your life; you need a budget. Not a boring, you can’t do this and you can’t have that type of budget, but as our guest Allison Baggerly believes, you need an Inspired Budget. After all, a budget is about more than putting numbers on a piece of paper. An Inspire ... Show More

<p>Behavioral finance is now well documented. But most of the attention goes to how people invest. But the study of how you spend money might be far more interesting -- and practical. How you spend money can reveal an existential struggle of what you find valuable in life, who yo ... Show More

Six letters – BUDGET – probably one of the most despised combination of letters in the English language, but that’s because you’re thinking about it all wrong. A budget isn’t a set in stone document that is some formal decree telling what you can and can’t spend your money on. In ... Show More

<p>#72: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbudget/">Allison Baggerly</a>, founder of Inspired Budget, and author of the book ‘Money Made Easy’, is dedicated to inspiring women to confidently manage their finances. This episode is great for those (singles as well as couple ... Show More