Risk, budget, and resourcesProfessional plan and above

Budget Tracker template

Cost category budget register with variance calculations and planned vs actual charting.

Starter tasks
7
Grouped into 5 groups
Dependencies
2
Pre-linked, so delays propagate from day one
Views
3
Installed and ready on first open
Custom columns
3
Beyond the built-in task fields

What this template gives you

Track budget by cost category: description, planned cost, actual cost, committed cost, auto-calculated variance and variance percentage, budget status, owner, and notes. Export the full budget register with variance calculations to Excel, a planned vs actual bar chart to PNG, or a budget summary report to PDF.

Workstreams

  • Cost categories
  • Variance calculations
  • Budget status

Groups it creates

Tasks arrive already sorted into Licences, Infrastructure, Professional Services, People, and Governance.

Exports

Anything in this template exports to Excel, PNG, PDF.

How it looks

The budget view, showing planned cost against actual for each cost category.

Custom columns installed
  • Committed costCurrency
  • Budget statusDropdown · 3 options
  • NotesText
Views installed
  • Budget register
    Spreadsheet-style task register with custom columns
  • Budget
    Earned-value budget tracking (CPI, EAC, VAC)
  • Dashboard
    Customisable widget dashboard: KPIs, charts, risks, workload
Automations switched on
  • When a task becomes overdue, notify the project owner

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Start with Budget Tracker

Create a project, pick this template, and the tasks, columns, and views are already in place. Available on Professional and above.