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Finance & Accounting Finance Business Budgeting

Create a Budget that Works

Learn how to create and maintain a personal budget in 5 easy steps using concepts and tools adaptable for a lifetime
Rating: 4.0 out of 54.0 (20 ratings)
267 students
Created by Judy Lawrence
Last updated 4/2013
English
English [Auto]
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What you'll learn

  • Be aware of and prepared for the majority of budget busting “surprise” expenses that pop up year round – Plus have a plan for handling them.
  • Be on top of your gift and holiday expenses.
  • Understand and see clearly why your debt balance keeps growing, even though you are making good money.
  • Have a monthly spending plan that makes sense and finally works.
  • Have more mindfulness and mastery over your finances in general.
  • Learn where the spending leaks are and what you can do to stop them.
  • Have a sense of financial confidence and mastery.

Requirements

  • All materials will be provided, however, it would be helpful to have Adobe Reader and Microsoft Excel (any version from 3.0 up) installed on your computer to utilize the handy worksheets provided.
  • There is no specific knowledge requirement, however a willingness and determination to learn and do the work will make all the difference for success.

Description

"Create a Budget that Works" will help you finally create a personal / household budget that works for your unique situation. This program methodically and patiently guides you through a five-step process, using transformative tools and concepts, for finally developing a customized spending plan that incorporates all those various financial puzzle pieces that make up your personal financial world.

This "Create a Budget that Works" course will teach you how to create and maintain a budget by explaining and showing how all the different concepts and financial pieces work together. The relaxed, kitchen-table conversational style offers a slower pace, compared to the fast paced, "drinking from the fire hose" approach. This style is deliberate, recognizing the anxiety that many experience when dealing with finances. Appealing to both the mental and emotional sides of the learner allows for a solid anchoring of the material. Don't let this slow approach fool you. In the end, the learning is subtle, deeper and powerfully affecting you for a lifetime.

Based on the best-selling workbook, The Budget Kit: Common Cents Money Management Workbook 6th Ed. (Kaplan Publishers), which has been selling nationally in bookstores for over thirty years and continually on Amazon's Best-seller lists, the concepts and tools are flexible and adaptable for a lifetime of financial changes. You can incorporate the concepts, as well as the tools, as a stand-alone budgeting system or apply them to other software, apps or online programs you’re currently using.

Even though you may have used a variety of budgeting tools over the years, if you are like many others, you ultimately may have ended up feeling there was still something missing. This course will finally provide those missing pieces.

After going through this "Create a Budget that Works" course, and learning how to create a comprehensive, overall personal budget, how to outline and work with a realistic monthly budget/spending plan, how to identify all those missing pieces that show up as surprise emergencies, and finally discovering all those spending leaks, you will finally understand why those other budgeting attempts just weren't working.

You will receive many valuable materials including "The Budget Kit 6th Ed." eBook, PDFs of the dozens of worksheets found in the workbook, along with an Excel Package of primary worksheets.

View these materials as a guideline for core concepts and basic spending categories. Spending categories always change over the years, but the core concepts remain timeless.

With over four hours of video by the author sharing her decades of experience with you, and specific homework using the course materials, rest assured, this time you will have a lifelong system and understanding that works. These concepts can be applied to any of your current financial tools and will bring you the mastery, confidence and financial peace of mind you have been seeking.

Here’s what some satisfied customers/clients said about Judy’s style and body of work:

“Just wanted to thank you for your time and assistance today. You were very helpful in resolving my problems. As we discussed, I have your budget software to be really great. I have tried several in the past. However, I found your software and book to be outstanding!!”  - Larry

“I continue to study and love your Budget Kit. Thanks for holding my hand and getting me going.”  - Elfriede

“Working with Judy, and her Budget  Kit book, has helped me bring order to my financial life on a monthly basis and to clarify my big-picture financial goals. Her supportive, practical coaching style guided me towards budgeting solutions and behaviors that fit my own core values and lifestyle, and has given me a greater sense of peace and personal success.”  - Jonathon


Who this course is for:

  • People of all ages, education, and experience can still benefit from the tools and concepts introduced in the course.
  • Whether you've tried budgets in the past or never started a budget.
  • Past audiences include: professionals, couples, Boomers, young families and twenty-somes.

Course content

6 sections • 30 lectures • 8h 46m total length

  • Document Downloads - The Budget Kit 6th Ed.eBook
    229 pages
  • Download Documents - PDF Worksheets from The Budget Kit eBook
    88 pages
  • Document Downloads - Excel Package
    00:27

  • Preview03:40
  • Documents to Get Started Successfully
    06:29
  • What Worked and Didn’t Work Before
    06:54
  • Preview2 pages

  • Documents for Section 3 - Course Worksheets Folder
    1 page
  • Preview05:06
  • Getting started –Uncovering those Periodic Surprise Expenses
    10:55
  • Managing Hidden Lifestyle and Holiday Surprise Expenses
    09:47
  • Most Overlooked Expense of the Missing Link
    14:04
  • Master your Finances while Conquering the Missing Link
    13:52
  • Preview5 pages

  • Documents for Section 4 - Course Worksheets Folder
    1 page
  • Overview for Creating a Monthly Spending Plan
    09:31
  • Managing Your Income and Fixed Expenses More Mindfully
    15:00
  • The Forgotten Monthly Expenses
    15:03
  • Now What? Putting All the Information Together
    07:27
  • Timing and Planning Is Everything
    10:25
  • How Others Created Successful Monthly Spending Plans
    5 pages

  • Documents for Section 5 - Course Worksheets Folder
    2 pages
  • Preview06:42
  • Successful Tracking Techniques
    19:31
  • What Bill Gates, Beatles, & Ben Franklin Have in Common with Tracking
    08:34
  • Notice if Spending is in Alignment with Your Priorities
    09:17
  • What Others Discovered by Tracking Their Expenses
    5 pages

  • Summary – Taking That First Step
    01:52
  • Five Step Review – Conclusion
    10:40
  • Special Coaching Package for UDEMY Students
    3 pages

Instructor

Judy Lawrence
Financial Counselor and Coach
Judy Lawrence
  • 4.0 Instructor Rating
  • 20 Reviews
  • 267 Students
  • 1 Course

Judy is a professional Financial Counselor and Budget Coach. She is the author of The Budget Kit:  Common Cents Money Management Workbook 6th Ed (Kaplan Publishers  -Over 425,000 copies in print). The Budget Kit  is a perennial bestseller for Kaplan Publishing (previously Dearborn Publishers)  for over 20 years and other publishers before that.

This time-tested workbook, available for decades has been serving multiple generations. When Judy originally self published “Common Cent$” she was ahead of her time with her pioneering concepts for creating a basic, complete and user-friendly budgeting system in layman’s terms along with visual hands-on worksheets for quick understanding.

These core concepts continue to stay relevant and effective and easily adaptable to any financial tool currently being used.

Judy has appeared on numerous  national networks including CNBC, Style Network,USA Radio Network, Business Talk Radio,and featured online and in  print for decades.  

Ms. Lawrence’s Master’s degree in Counseling enhances her financial counseling skills. Her down-to-earth style of books, coaching, webinars and presentations continue to help thousands of couples, individuals, professionals and solopreneurs get out of debt, gain financial control and have more financial peace of mind.

Customers, clients and  workshop participants appreciate her encouraging, supportive, and easy-to  understand approach for breaking through old financial beliefs, patterns and  barriers around money issues.

After spending ten years in the Silicon Valley / Bay Area in CA, Judy moved back to Albuquerque, NM and offers financial counseling/coaching nationally and globally by phone, Skype and various online platforms as well as presenting webinars to numerous companies nationwide.

Locally she offers in-home visits for  financial counseling and presents public budgeting workshops.

Ms. Lawrence developed a four month financial literacy training program for Greater Albuquerque Habitat for Humanity and for years trained the recipient partner families qualifying for Habitat homes. She has also served as a Board member for Greater Albuquerque Habitat for Humanity.

Judy and her husband enjoy hiking and exploring throughout New Mexico. She has been active with the local TEDxABQ community for many years. One of her favorite traveling destinations is New Zealand where she visits her “Kiwi family” and has provided coaching and workshops to many New Zealanders.






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