# Budget & Spend Tracker app | Cordango > A department head shouldn’t learn at quarter end that the budget is gone. They hear on a Monday instead, because committed money counts before it’s spent. Source: https://www.cordango.com/apps/budget-tracker/ Language: en [Cordango](https://www.cordango.com/) [App Library](https://www.cordango.com/apps/) Budget & Spend Tracker BGT # Budget & Spend Tracker A department head shouldn’t learn at quarter end that the budget is gone. They hear on a Monday instead, because committed money counts before it’s spent. Official by Cordango Recommended - CATEGORY Finance - FOR Finance teams · Managers - USES YOUR COMPANY CORE Organizations - WORKS WITH 3 apps [Add to Cordango](https://app.cordango.com/start?app=budget-tracker) [The App Library](https://www.cordango.com/marketplace/) [![Budget & Spend Tracker on Cordango: committed and actual money, spend by category and the budget lines already over plan](https://www.cordango.com/assets/templates/app-budget-tracker-dashboard.png)](https://www.cordango.com/assets/templates/app-budget-tracker-dashboard.png) ## What it does. The finance controller sets a budget per cost centre and period and splits it into the lines people actually spend against. Money that has been promised is counted apart from money that has gone, so a line that looks fine on the bank statement can still show as overdrawn. Approved purchase requests, renewed subscriptions and approved projects commit against their line by themselves when those apps are installed. Changing the plan is an adjustment somebody else has to approve. - BUDGETS A budget per cost centre and period, broken into the lines you spend against - COMMITTED Money promised and money gone, counted separately and both against the line - VARIANCE Forecast and how far over a line is, worked out rather than reported - ADJUSTMENTS Moving a plan is a decision with an approver, and never your own - SHARED The cost centres and categories the rest of Finance quotes back at you - WARNING An owner hears when their budget is forecast to go over, before it does Use it to Plan budgets Track company spending Useful for Finance teams Managers ## A closer look. [![Budget & Spend Tracker on Cordango: budgets per cost centre with plan, committed, actual, forecast and variance](https://www.cordango.com/assets/templates/app-budget-tracker-budgets.png)](https://www.cordango.com/assets/templates/app-budget-tracker-budgets.png) ## How it connects. Every app here installs on its own and works on its own. Adding a companion is what makes both do more. - Purchase Requests An approved purchase becomes a commitment on the line it named - Project Intake & Portfolio An approved project commits its estimate - Vendor & SaaS Management A renewed subscription commits next year's money ### Uses your company core Every workspace already has these. Nothing to install, nothing to connect. ### Organizations a vendor is the same company here, in Purchase Requests and in Vendor & SaaS ### Works with Optional. Install one later and both do more. ### [Project Intake & Portfolio](https://www.cordango.com/apps/project-intake/) an approved project commits its estimate ### [Vendor & SaaS Management](https://www.cordango.com/apps/vendors/) a renewed subscription commits next year's money ### Extended by Optional. Install one later and both do more. ### [Purchase Requests](https://www.cordango.com/apps/purchase-requests/) an approved purchase becomes a commitment on the line it named ## It reacts to your other apps. Work this app does on its own when something happens somewhere else. - FROM Purchase Requests Commit the money when a purchase is approved - FROM Vendor & SaaS Management Commit next year's money when a subscription is renewed - FROM Project Intake & Portfolio Commit the estimate when a project is approved ## Details. - PUBLISHER Cordango - CATEGORY Finance - VERSION 0.3.0 - STATUS Official - SAMPLE DATA Yes MORE ## More in Finance. ![Ventures](https://www.cordango.com/assets/templates/app-ventures-portfolio.png) INV ### Ventures Finance A dozen angel cheques and a spreadsheet that’s a year out of date. Log each cheque, valuation and payout here, and the multiple and return work themselves out. → https://www.cordango.com/apps/investments/ ![Expenses](https://www.cordango.com/assets/templates/app-expenses-overview.png) EXP ### Expenses Finance The colleague who paid for the team dinner on their own card files one claim with the receipt, and can see when it’s approved and when they’re paid back. → https://www.cordango.com/apps/expenses/ ![Invoices](https://www.cordango.com/assets/templates/app-invoicing-overview.png) INV ### Invoices Finance Invoicing for a small agency or consultancy, done by whoever gets stuck with it at month end. Totals add up from the line items, and late ones show how late. → https://www.cordango.com/apps/invoices/ ![Finance](https://www.cordango.com/assets/templates/app-finance-transactions.png) FIN ### Finance Finance In a small company, somebody sorts the month’s money into categories before the accountant sees it. This is their ledger, and it shows where the money went. → https://www.cordango.com/apps/finance/ ![Purchase Requests](https://www.cordango.com/assets/templates/app-purchase-requests-pipeline.png) PR ### Purchase Requests Finance A short form for anybody who needs to buy something, and the amount decides who agrees. A new chair stops at the manager, a new server goes all the way up. → https://www.cordango.com/apps/purchase-requests/ ![Vendor & SaaS Management](https://www.cordango.com/assets/templates/app-vendor-flow-requests.png) VEN ### Vendor & SaaS Management Finance IT usually hears about a new SaaS tool when the invoice arrives. Here the request passes a security review first, and every renewal comes with a warning. → https://www.cordango.com/apps/vendors/ [The App Library →](https://www.cordango.com/marketplace/) NEXT ## Start with Budget & Spend Tracker. Every app here installs on its own and works on its own. Adding a companion is what makes both do more. [Sign up →](https://app.cordango.com/start?app=budget-tracker) [The App Library →](https://www.cordango.com/marketplace/)