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Oct 2024
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About this episode

How do you break down your budget to maximise the amount you’re saving and investing? In this episode we’re doing a quarterly review of our budgets to see how we’ve been stacking up against our goals. 


We cover:

  • Our budget / financial plan for the quarter
  • How closely did we stick to it?
  • Our target savings rate this quarter and did we hit it?
  • Ways we’ll optimise our budget for the next quarter 


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