stages of budgeting:
1. Determine financial goals
To be financially independent, start by determining the financial objectives of short, medium, and long. Ask a number of questions to yourself to help you clarify the objectives financially. What is Your top priority, whatever your needs are, and what is your desire?
2. Collect a variety of personal financial information
The next stage, collect all income and expenditure data. The Data should you collect in between the salary for that already work or allowance from parents, credit card bills, payment of goods which become primary needs, and more.
Then do the classification of data into three parts for the basis to make a budget. The first part, i.e., earnings, earnings from the entire summing these all sources of income. The second part, i.e. the expenditure, expenditure remained as summing these all home mortgage, and spending money on gasoline, variables such as phone, and more. Third is the bottom line, i.e. the difference between the income and expenditures that will give you size does your spending has been excessive.
See Your bottom line, if the difference is positive then you could set aside more funds to save money or raise the amount of payment or credit card debt. If the difference is negative, it means you spend more than income.
“If you spend more than 15-20 per cent of net salary, plus payment of debt or credit card bills, you are on dangerous position. Thorough back your expenses, especially expenditure variables to control spending. Do not get the salary of Rp 5 million but spending a month Rp 7 million, “Hotman said. “If necessary, write down the monthly expenses,” he added.
3. reduce expenses!
Many people are spending money for goods which actually they don’t need, although perhaps she wanted. Therefore, you need to monitor your spending with small notes always bring. These notes will help you recognize the spending habits of each month. Of course you need to discipline records all daily and monthly expenditure in this entry.
Even though the bottom line you are positive, the habit of reducing spending still needs to be applied. Start by bringing food from home and eating in restaurants. Subtract also the habit of drinking coffee and eating at fast food restaurants. “You could save USD $ 5 million per year if the habit of drinking coffee is Rp 20,000 per day could be reduced,” Hotman suggestions. Quit the habit of smoking a pack a day can also save some Rp 1 million per month.
4. make a budget formula
The last stage in drawing up the budget was made formulations. Determine the composition of the budget presentation from your monthly salary. Like what percent you for savings, the cost of the rent or mortgage, food, clothing, transportation, sightseeing, and more.
You can adopt the composition of the budget as described Ligwina financial planner on the occasion is different. Ligwina suggests, the composition of the debt repayments are a maximum of 30 per cent; insurance premium, composition of household, transportation needs, the needs of children and families, as well as health is 20-40 per cent of earnings; the composition of your personal needs like shopping for clothes, grooming salon, or buy a gadget is 20 percent. The rest, about 10-30 per cent, is to be saved as an emergency fund.