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YNAB Mobile Widgets: Instant Financial Insights at Your Fingertips
You’re about to go by your favorite coffee shop. But wait, how much do you have left in your coffee budget? You only have seconds to make the decision. You open your phone, scroll, tap, tap tap tap,
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YNAB: The Story of How a Budgeting Revolution Began
I’m biased, of course, but YNAB’s origin story is one of my favorites … Part One: The Birth Story Jesse, and his wife, Julie, have a lot of babies, but YNAB was their first. After getting marri
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Financial Planning for Adoption: A Comprehensive Guide
Wondering how to financially prepare for adoption? We’ll cover everything you need to know. Saving money is hard. And saving money for an adoption can be even more difficult given how emotional
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Student Budget Snapshot: Balancing College Costs with Parental Support
Editor’s note: There are many different ways to pay for college, and this snapshot shows a student with some support from parents. If you’re a student who is using loans through college, we’d l
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YNAB for High-Achievers: A FinTech Executive's Financial Management Strategy
Of all the people to know money inside and out, Daniel is a contender for a gold medal. Daniel and his wife Loretta have five professional accounting designations between them, three finance MBAs, an
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Budgeting: Why It Works (and What Happened When One Person Stopped)
At some point you might wonder, “Do I need a budget? I mean, do I really? If I pay my bills and save some money, I’m doing fine, right?” And, look—I get that you might be skeptical about gettin
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Understanding Credit Card Float: Risks & How to Avoid Them
Every time I explain the credit card float to people, I feel like the bearer of bad news. There they are, happily paying their bills (for the time being) when I roll up and point out the flaw in thei
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Overcome Overspending: 3 Proven Strategies for Financial Control
Nobody likes to talk about it, but a lot of people struggle with a spending problem. Excess spending can happen almost on accident: a few purchases here, a late-night online shopping session there, a
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First Day of School: Navigating the Emotional Weight of Letting Go
It has been 22,017 days since my children went to school full-time (as God so clearly intended), but today—finally—was the first day of school. The most glorious first day of school of all time.
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Top Budgeting Apps for Small Businesses: Streamline Finances
Looking for the best budgeting app for your small business? We get it. We’ve been there. One of the most challenging aspects of running a small business is all of the different hats you have to wear
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YNAB Business Budgeting: A Step-by-Step Guide for Side Hustles
A few years after starting YNAB, I started a side hustle. I wanted to see if I could generate some extra income to pay off my mortgage early. When I started the side hustle, the first thing I did was
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YNAB Budget Update: 8 Improvements for Financial Control
Today is an epic day in the YNAB universe. The You-Nee-verse. Because, as you may have noticed this morning when you went to add a “last night was rough” commuting coffee to your budget, BLAM. Everyt
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Simplify YNAB: New Improvements to Ease the Learning Curve
The YNAB method works extremely well—we see the proof of that in the success stories we hear every single day. Unfortunately, we also hear about something else every day: the learning curve. We won’t
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YNAB: Mastering Budgeting for Effective Savings
If you asked most people what it means to save money, they’d probably mumble something about a savings account, or maybe stashing money in a safe, or if you have really interesting friends, perhaps b
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Financial Wellness: How Budgeting Supports Mental Health
Let’s face it, money and emotions are closely linked. Whether it’s the nagging guilt of occasional overspending, anxiety around debt, or the frustration of overdrawn accounts (yet again), our relatio
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College Budgeting 101: Smart Money Management for Students
How should you manage your money in college as a student? You might feel like a mostly broke college student whose ears perk up at every and any mention of free pizza. I’ve been there too. Pizz
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Budgeting for College: A Student's Guide to YNAB
Ahh…college. The ultimate crash course in Adulting 101. You probably sashayed onto campus feeling triumphant at first—you’d made it. You escaped high school. You had your schedule and your room
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Mastering Monthly Budgeting in YNAB: A Step-by-Step Guide
One day—probably more than one day—but less than 32 days after you’ve been using You Need a Budget (okay, definitely less, definitely), you’re going to start a new month in YNAB and the o
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Top Budgeting Apps for College Students: Find the Right Fit
What’s the best budgeting app for college students? The only right answer is whichever one you’ll stick with. There are plenty of budgeting apps that will track your income and expenses or help you o
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YNAB Setup Guide: Your First Day with You Need a Budget
So, you’ve figured out that You Need a Budget. Congrats! That’s an essential first step. Now what? Seriously. What are you going to do about that? Oh right, that’s our job. We
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Shiba Inu: Risks & Potential for Recovery - A Balanced AnalysisMany or all of the products here are from our partners that pay us a commission. It’s how we make money. But our editorial integrity ensures our experts’ opi...
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Income Summary Account: Definition & PurposeThe income summary account is an account that receives all the temporary accounts of a business upon closing them at the end of every accounting periodFiscal Year (FY)A fiscal year (FY) is a 12-month ...
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Backup Withholding: Understanding IRS Tax CollectionBackup withholding is a federal taxation method used by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The backup withholding method is used to collect taxes on income payments that are not subject to tax withho...
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Understanding Economic Deficits: Causes & EffectsThe literal meaning of the word deficit is a loss or shortfall. In terms of finance, deficit refers to a shortfall of certain economic resources, mostly money. An individual runs a deficit if they spe...