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Student Finances Guide

How to budget

Your budget will reflect your personal level of expenditure and lifestyle. Budgets can often fail because people don't take into account their irregular predictable expenses such as a service on your car or even your household insurance. We can readily remember the day to day expenses like rent/mortgage, petrol and child care.

The following forms will assist you to develop your ongoing budget and an annual planner so you can monitor your high and low expenditure months. A sample budget is also provided to illustrate how to complete the budget sheet.

 

Weekly/fortnightly budget sheet

 

Annual expenditure planner

Students sometimes find that they need to supplement their income/support by taking on casual or part-time employment. Should you find yourself in that situation please refer to our Student Employment Service.