Most business budget templates are built for the US and stop at income and expenses. They miss the payments Australian businesses actually budget for: the super guarantee, PAYG, and the quarterly BAS.
This free business budget template is built for Australian SMEs. It comes pre-labelled with those line items, the formulas are already in place, and it includes a budget-vs-actual tab so you can track where you drifted, not just what you planned.
What’s inside
- A 12-month annual budget (Australian financial year, July to June) with income and expense lines and a full-year total column
- A budget vs actual tab with automatic variance, so you can see which categories went over
- Australian line items built in: super guarantee, PAYG withholding, GST/BAS, wages, rent, suppliers, subscriptions and marketing
- Live formulas: enter your figures in the blue cells and every total calculates automatically
Who is it for?
Finance managers and business owners at Australian SMEs who want a budget that reflects real AU obligations and shows where actual spend drifted from the plan.
How to use it
- Download the Excel template
- On the Annual Budget tab, enter your expected income and expenses for each month
- Each month, use the Budget vs Actual tab to compare your real spend to the plan
- Act on the variances: a category that keeps going over is either mis-planned or under-controlled
The honest limit of any budget
A budget is a number until something enforces it. A spreadsheet records the overspend; it does not stop it. Closing that gap is what Budgetly does: pre-approved budgets enforced at the card, so the spend declines when the budget is gone. For the full method behind the template, read our guide on how to create a business budget.
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Free template. Built for Australian businesses.