Perhaps you already know this, but in a previous life I was a financial analyst. One of the bigger projects I worked on in those days was for this massive, billion dollar a year company when I helped put together their annual budget. While this post won't go into the same level of granular detail that I did in those days, it will go into some best practices for setting up a multi-department expense budget in Airtable.
But, before we jump into the "how?" - let's start with the "why?"
It seems crazy to say it, but when I did budgets in the past, they were done in spreadsheets. SPREADSHEETS! The very thought of it fills me with anxiety. Perhaps you've experienced something similar in the past... it goes a little like this:
This, of course, is why I loathe spreadsheets and encourage databases wherever possible! In my previous life, I spent hundreds of hours combing through data in broken spreadsheets. What an absolute WASTE!
In this video I walk through a multi-department budget that I built in Airtable. I go through how to allocate hours to projects and get high-level budget insights. Most importantly, I go through the steps for properly linking these tables so that the data flows through the database correctly.
Optimally, an expense budget in Airtable won't break and suffer the same problems as a spreadsheet. Use this solution to build your data in the cloud and get your team collaborating remotely (and without broken spreadsheets!)
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