auto month - potential budget improvements

[bj70]

Hi,
Attached is my excel.
The spreadsheet is really about watching out to see if I have an issue with cash flow in the coming months.

Usually the main $$ in or out of the business goes like this...For example,
1. I get a payment from a customer (call it a deposit) in June to purchase materials to do a job
2. I purchase those materials in June but have a 30 day account and don't need to pay the supplier until end of July
3. I do the work in June (or July) and send out the final payment after the job is complete. They pay the final amount in July (or August)

Like most businesses, when purchasing materials, doing the job and getting paid can all fall into different months.

The purpose of my spreadsheet is to see:
- the net amounts at the start and end of each month
- see how the flow of $ within each job carries across 2/3 months

The current spreadsheet shows only two months. At the end of each month I manually change the title and cut/copy the data from one month, left, to the next.... I do this each month.

Here's how I'm hoping you can help me.....

* months setup far into the future

* but I don't want to scroll RIGHT or DOWN to access that month (eg, in 4 years I'd need to scroll through 48 months in order to find the relevant one)

* The ability to change standard known expenses (Eg. regular debits $450) so that figure changes on each future month (bit like those calendar apps that ask: did you want to change only this value?, or all future values?)

Your thoughts?

Thank you

It's worth noting this spreadsheet does not replace my accounting software (Zero) that keeps account of my GST, income, spends and income etc.

[JeteMc]

I propose to put the data in row by row format (see Sheet2, columns A:E) and convert the range into an Excel table.
Column E is populated using:

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A summary could then be displayed using a pivot table which may be filtered using a timeline depending on the version of Excel used (16.16.27 isn't a version, however I am guessing that it is either the 2016 version or a build of the 365 version).
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