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Google Docs As An Expense Tracker

I am a huge fan of the google docs, In fact I am pretty much a fan of all of googles services. I love having all my information with me wherever I go and I am willing to “sacrifice” my privacy in exchange for that service. Anything really important and I will keep it on my own server but I am yet to have anything that I really worry about. That said some people might not want to use to host there expenses, I do.

The great thing about using google docs to host my expenses is that I can add an expense from anywhere using the google docs form feature In the example I provided (Fake Expenses), I use the forum feature to add expenses on the road as well as getting real time updates about the amount of money I spend per day, week, etc.

If you would like to use my you can view it here (Be sure to check all the sheets (Form, Overview, Worker, and Totals)), or download it here. Then simply upload it to your docs and set up a form. Also feel free to play around and add fake expenses to the doc.

How do you track your expenses?

Update 01: Click here to get your own copy of the doc in your google docs. Thanks JR.
Update 02: Any idea why when I edit my posts they are being republished?

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http://www.mint.com usually does the trick for me. It’s not too sophisticated, but it is mostly automatic.

Comment by Derek Buranen on May 8, 2008 6:20 pm


@Derek Buranen Ya mint.com looks really nice, to bad I’m in Canada :(

Comment by earobinson on May 8, 2008 7:33 pm


Ledger

http://www.newartisans.com/software/ledger.html

Been having trouble with the most recent versions so I just stick with 2.5. Best thing out there.

Comment by Omari on May 10, 2008 9:55 am


I use PBooks, a double entry accounting system I’ve been working on for a few years:

http://www.pbooks.org/trac/

Comment by Albert Lash on May 10, 2008 12:12 pm


Cool spreadsheet… Quick trick to letting your readers get their own copy is to append the &newcopy link to the end of the link you provided for viewing the spreadsheet… (the one with the /ccc in it). They;ll have to log in to a google account to get it.
Have fun!

Comment by JR on May 13, 2008 6:45 am


Neat thanks JR

Comment by earobinson on May 13, 2008 11:17 am


Pretty sure if you go edit the page again, you can change the publishing timestamp back to an old value.

Comment by PriceChild on May 13, 2008 12:48 pm


@PriceChild it still says “Posted on May 8″ but I edited it today and it republished to the planet.

Comment by earobinson on May 13, 2008 1:09 pm


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