About the Year-to-Date Template for Microsoft Excel
The Year-to-Date Comparison Sheet for Microsoft Excel provides budget versus actual analysis for the year-to-date period. The sheet is very simple and easy to use. It works for the current year.
Installation
- Download the Shared_Year-to-Date Workbook
- Follow these instructions to copy the downloaded template into your Excel workbook and to connect the formula references to your local workbook data.
Usage
- Aggregate By: Options are Category or Group.
- Sort By: The report can be sorted by any of the columns.
- Sort Order: The report can be sorted A to Z or Z to A.
The sheet summarizes in your actual Transactions by Category and Group from the Transactions sheet for the year to date period.
The sheet works best if you are using a Categories sheet that includes budgets by month. The Foundation template includes this. If you don’t have a Categories sheet with budgets by month starting in Jan of this year, then you won’t have any YTD Budget data.
If a category or group doesn’t have an actual amount or a budget amount, it won’t appear in the report. Categories that are set to Hide won’t appear either.
Notes
If you find any issues, let me know!
Support & Documentation
- View documentation for the Year-to-Date Comparison Template for Microsoft Excel here the Tiller Community
Thanks for bringing this sheet to Excel @jpfieber !
Dude, you’re a spreadsheet machine. Great job.
The Edit Links command is unavailable after copying the Year-to-date sheet so could not get it updated with the Tiller workbook.
I deliberately avoided creating any links/connections on this template, so you can skip the required step for changing them (as you’ve found, the ‘Edit Links’ button is greyed out since there’s nothing that can be edited). The formulas should find the data in your template as long as you have relatively normal Transactions and Categories sheets.
I expanded the grouping and changed the budget/categories starting dates and it works.
Thanks.