Budgeting the Right Way: Build Your Budget from the Bottom Up

In this episode of Financially Fit Business, I cover part six of the seven steps to financial fitness: budgeting. I explain why traditional top-down budgeting often leads to disappointment and how building your budget from the bottom up, starting with your unit of revenue, creates a clearer and more realistic financial plan. I also share how I use budget-versus-actual tracking to guide decisions throughout the year, not just review numbers after the fact.

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