Organize Your Personal Finances ...In No Time

Summary

Congratulations! You've accomplished a lot in this chapter. Now you have systems for collecting all your transaction information and recording the data. You've learned some handy tricks for working around problem situations, and you're ready to move on to making your records agree with the bank's and exploring some computer-based options for maintaining your individual account registers. Later, in Chapter 8, “Learn More from Your Organized Data,” we'll talk about ways to analyze your neatly captured numbers (those totals we created in your spreadsheet, for one thing). But first, let's move on to Chapter 2, “Getting the Figures to Match,” and delve into balancing your accounts, a task that you'll find much easier with the progress you've ...