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Max HumberPersonal Finance with Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3802-8_5

5. Budget

Max Humber1 
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 

Going broke is not an option, always on that cash flow.

—A$AP Rocky

I’ve been obsessed with budgeting for as long as I can remember, first with pen and paper, then with Excel, then with R, and now with Python.

There are some wonderful online tools that can help you build a budget; however, I’ve always found them to be lacking. While most budget apps are great for measuring monthly inflows and outflows, I haven’t found them to be particularly great for scenario planning or for capturing the holistic cash flow picture.

When I build a budget, I want to know what my bank balance will be at each moment in ...

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