Manage information

You must manage the information you have into three parts. The third part will be used to create a budget.
1. What is your income:
Collect all types of income, such as: including “net pay” after deducting taxes, commissions, bonuses, social security or pension, disability income guarantee, interest rates, dividends, alimony and others.
2. how much money you spend:
Collect all the fixed expenses and variable expenses is not fixed. Fixed expenses are expenses that were not changed every month, for example, rent, loans, insurance, loan payments, savings, retirement, tuition money  and others. and usually can’t be bothered to sue. Expenditure not fixed variable is spending amounts can vary and can be reduced or eliminated, for example subscription cable television, daily shopping money, gasoline, telephone bill, and others. and can be reduced or eliminated.
3. the amount of the end:
Subtract the total expenditure by total revenue. The result is a reduction in the budget balance. If expenses greater than income, showing unhealthy budget conditions. If the expenditure is less than income, then the remaining amount of the remaining Amount is called “discretionary income”. This is the amount that can be used for emergency purposes or in order to meet the target savings and budget. And it shows a healthy budget conditions.

Step 3: Understand your current financial position

After all the information is collected, you can view the relationship between income and expenditure. You can use the number perspiration when making a budget for the first time, because it takes time to understand your actual financial position. At least this information can give you an idea of shopping behavior is good and true.

Step 4: check the amount of the end

The number of late you have is the difference between your income and the amount of your expenses. These figures give an indication of whether you are spending too much money or not. If the number is positive, you can increase the amount of your savings and if the number is negative, it means you’re spending more money than income.

If you spend more than 15% to 20% of its net income to pay debts and credit cards, chances are you’re in the danger zone. If the final amount is negative, you should re-examine your expenses, especially those that are not fixed, so your shopping habits back in control.

Step 5: write down the expenditure

After you do a calculation of budget stages beginning, start noting the monthly expenses. Even if your final amount is positive, it’s good you understand your spending pattern during this time.

Carry a small notebook to anywhere you go to take down spending and withdrawal of money. Of note is that you do, you could be surprised to find your spending patterns. Many people are realizing that they can spend millions of dollars just to buy snacks, dress or pay the Bills. Usually the problem arising from the purchase of goods is not important, that otherwise no matter not actually purchased anything. The purpose of this registry is to see patterns and the amount of your expenses.

If you feel your finances chaotic turned upside down, try to implement measures to make budget and planning below so you can get back in control of your finances. Maybe you need some time to fix the pattern of spending, but You need to continue to adapt to get financial planning that best suits your financial condition and behavior.

Set the spending isn’t easy, so please include your family in planning this. They can also help your financial arrangements. In addition, the changes you make may affect them too, so they should be involved in the process of making a budget.

The budget is a systematic plan of work prepared and expressed in monetary units. Normally budgeting based on past experience and appraiser-estimated in the future, then this can be a work guidelines for each section within the company to run its activities.
The main purpose of the budget is for external monitoring, which is to limit the overall resources available to an agency and to prevent expenditures for things or activities that are not justified by law.

Benefits Budget:

According to Marconi and Siegel (1983) in Hehanusa (2003, p.406-407) the benefits of the budget are:
1. The budget is the result of the planning process, it means that the budget represents an agreement negotiated between the dominant participants in an organization on the purpose of activities in the future.
2. The budget is an illustration of the priority allocation of resources because it can act as a blueprint for corporate activity.
3. The budget is an internal communication tool that connects the department (division) is one with a department (division) others in the organization as well as with top management.
4. The budget provides information about the actual activities compared to the standards set.
5. Budget as a tool of control that leads management to determine the organization’s strong and weak, this will be directing the management to determine corrective actions to be taken.
6. Budget to influence and motivate managers and employees to work with a consistent, effective and efficient in conditions of fitness for purpose of corporate goals with employee goals.

annuity fixed period, fixed amount, or lifetime

Fixed period annuity pays income for a specified period, for example ten years. The amount of income paid does not depend on the age or the sustainability of the people who buy the annuity (called anuitan). The amount of income paid depends only on the premiums paid into the annuity, the length of time payments, and investment returns accumulated. Annuities provide a fixed amount of income within a certain amount until the balance of premiums and investment returns are paid out.

Lifetime annuity provides income for the remaining life of anuitan. A variation of lifetime annuities continues to provide income for up to two pairs anuitan died (joint-life annuity). The amount paid depends on age anuitan, premiums paid into the annuity, and investment returns are accumulated.

Types of lifetime annuities are used as retirement benefits in Indonesia (as in civil and military) generally provide periodic payments every month until the lifetime of the main participants, then proceed spouse (widow / widower) of 60% of the monthly benefit the main participants, then down to son for 33.33% of pension benefits widow / widower of a maximum of up to three children who have not reached age 25, unmarried and has not worked.

In a lifetime annuity, a source of income comes from three “wallet”: Your investment, investment earnings and money from a pool of people in your group who died first from you. This is a typical setting on the annuity, which allows companies to guarantee the annuity income for life.

Annuities are contracts in which insurance companies provide regular payments in return for the premiums you paid. Annuities are generally purchased for retirement income.

Annuities have benefits in every situation:

• For people who are rich, buy an annuity to secure future income, even if their assets are missing. They get the certainty of income.
• For people with modest wealth, annuities can help provide a sustainable source of income so that it remains financially independent in the old days. In addition, they will be free from the hassles of managing investments and assets.

There are many categories of annuities, which can be classified according to the nature of the underlying investment, the accumulation period, the nature of commitment and payment of premium setting.

Do you not know where your money remains? Get a grip on your budget by laying a sound financial administration. How you doing? No problem. Here are 10 tips.

Tip 1: Identify your income and expenses. Make a list of your monthly income: salary, health care, rent, child allowance et cetera. Do the same with your expenses: rent or mortgage, insurance premiums, subscriptions. Do not forget the other costs like entertainment, clothing, birthdays and such mapping. Part off the annual expenditure by twelve. Pull off the expenses on your income and you know what is your monthly budget. Read the full story