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This is a personal Excel-based accounting system that tracks your complete financial picture in one place. It monitors your Net Worth, Monthly Income, Monthly Expenses, and Savings. All transactions are logged with dates, categories, and payment status so you always know where your money went. No subscription, no software — just a clean, self-contained system built entirely in Microsoft Excel. 📊💰📈✅
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📊 Overview
Many professionals track finances manually each month with no consistent structure — no clear view of budget performance, no easy way to see net worth or savings trends at a glance.
This Excel reporting system brings together income, expenses, assets, and liabilities in one dashboard. Entering transactions is the only ongoing task. Budget comparisons, net worth, savings rate, and period-over-period changes all update automatically from there.
✨ Key Features
• Live dashboard for income, expenses, net worth, and savings rate
• Budget vs. actual tracking across six expense categories
• Automated net worth calculator
• Month-over-month comparison reporting
⚙️ Single reporting control — change the reporting month once, and every report updates automatically.
financialreportingFinancial AnalysisdashboarddesignBusiness Workflow AutomationBusiness OperationsGoogle SheetsMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft Office 365
The main problem with managing money across multiple accounts is the mental math. You're checking one app for fiat, another for crypto and trying to understand where you stand.
We designed the fintech dashboard home screen around one number: your total balance.
Fiat, savings, crypto, all rolled into a single figure at the top. The individual accounts sit underneath the banking app home screen as simple line items you can tap into if you need details, but the default view does the math for you.
The credit card is right below the balance with total due and a one-tap pay button.
Recent activity shows at the bottom with categories and timestamps.
Design process: total financial position first, active debt second, recent transactions third.
The goal was to give users a complete picture of their money in one glance, everything else is one tap away for the financial app UX.
cool!
Built a fully automated cold email outreach
system using n8n, Gmail and Google Sheets.
The system sends personalized cold emails
to leads automatically, follows up with
those who don't reply, tracks every response
and logs replies directly into Google Sheets
— all without any manual work.
Results:
100% follow-up rate
Replies tracked automatically
Zero manual sending
Runs 24/7 on autopilot
Tools: n8n + Gmail + Google Sheets
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