This guide walks you through exactly how to create a line-item budget, starting with your gross income and accounting for your taxes, monthly expenses, and non-monthly expenses, including your goals. It encourages you to categorize every expense as fixed or variable, regular or irregular, and necessary or discretionary. The guide includes answers to five frequently asked questions about grad student budgeting.
This guide walks you through exactly how to create a line-item budget, starting with your gross income and accounting for your taxes, monthly expenses, and non-monthly expenses, including your goals. It encourages you to categorize every expense as fixed or variable, regular or irregular, and necessary or discretionary. The guide includes answers to five frequently asked questions about grad student budgeting.