# Budget & Spend Tracker in the App Library

> A department head shouldn’t learn at quarter end that the budget is gone. They hear on a Monday instead, because committed money counts before it’s spent.

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# Budget & Spend Tracker

A department head shouldn’t learn at quarter end that the budget is gone. They hear on a Monday instead, because committed money counts before it’s spent.

Add Budget & Spend Tracker to your workspace

It installs from the App Library inside Cordango and starts working with what you already have.

[Get early access](https://www.cordango.com/start/?app=budget-tracker)

The finance controller sets a budget per cost centre and period and splits it into the lines people actually spend against. Money that has been promised is counted apart from money that has gone, so a line that looks fine on the bank statement can still show as overdrawn. Approved purchase requests, renewed subscriptions and approved projects commit against their line by themselves when those apps are installed. Changing the plan is an adjustment somebody else has to approve.

## What it does

-   A budget per cost centre and period, broken into the lines you spend against
-   Money promised and money gone, counted separately and both against the line
-   Forecast and how far over a line is, worked out rather than reported
-   Moving a plan is a decision with an approver, and never your own
-   The cost centres and categories the rest of Finance quotes back at you
-   An owner hears when their budget is forecast to go over, before it does

## What's included

### Records

-   Budget
-   Budget line
-   Spend
-   Adjustment
-   Cost centre
-   Category

### Workflows

**Budget:** Draft · Active · Closed

**Spend:** Open · Invoiced · Paid · Cancelled

**Adjustment:** Proposed · Approved · Rejected

### Roles

-   Finance controller
-   Budget owner
-   Department viewer
-   Administrator

5 pages · 5 views

## How it connects

Every app here installs on its own and works on its own. Adding a companion is what makes both do more.

### Works with

[PI Project Intake & Portfolio an approved project commits its estimate](https://www.cordango.com/marketplace/details/project-intake/) [VEN Vendor & SaaS Management a renewed subscription commits next year's money](https://www.cordango.com/marketplace/details/vendors/)

### Extended by

[PR Purchase Requests an approved purchase becomes a commitment on the line it named](https://www.cordango.com/marketplace/details/purchase-requests/)

### Uses your company core

[ORG Organizations a vendor is the same company here, in Purchase Requests and in Vendor & SaaS](https://www.cordango.com/marketplace/core/organizations/)

## What it does for you

-   Commit the money when a purchase is approved · Purchase Requests
-   Commit next year's money when a subscription is renewed · Vendor & SaaS Management
-   Commit the estimate when a project is approved · Project Intake & Portfolio
-   Stamp who filed a spend row
-   Stamp who asked for an adjustment
-   Tell an owner on Monday when their budget is forecast over
-   Ask for last month's actuals before the month closes

## Built by

Cordango

## Category

[Finance](https://www.cordango.com/marketplace/category/finance/)

## Version

0.3.0

## Default role

department\_viewer

## Sample data

Available on install

Can be removed again afterwards

## Tags

-   [budget](https://www.cordango.com/marketplace/tags/budget/)
-   [spend](https://www.cordango.com/marketplace/tags/spend/)
-   [forecast](https://www.cordango.com/marketplace/tags/forecast/)
-   [cost-centre](https://www.cordango.com/marketplace/tags/cost-centre/)
-   [commitments](https://www.cordango.com/marketplace/tags/commitments/)

## Screenshots

[![Budget & Spend Tracker on Cordango: committed and actual money, spend by category and the budget lines already over plan](https://www.cordango.com/assets/templates/app-budget-tracker-dashboard.png)](https://www.cordango.com/assets/templates/app-budget-tracker-dashboard.png)

Committed and actual spend against the plan

[![Budget & Spend Tracker on Cordango: budgets per cost centre with plan, committed, actual, forecast and variance](https://www.cordango.com/assets/templates/app-budget-tracker-budgets.png)](https://www.cordango.com/assets/templates/app-budget-tracker-budgets.png)

Every budget with its plan, commitments and forecast
