Updated on: Mar 28, 2024
Easy Event Planning's graduation party budget worksheet includes the most common expense items and is ready to be downloaded into Google Sheets with a click of a button. Managing your graduation party expenses is a critical part of the planning process but it doesn't need to be a daunting task. This tracker will help you to organize these important details so you can estimate and manage your spending. The sheet includes categories from catering to even attire for yourself, so you won’t forget anything important in the mix of your planning. Planning a specific type of graduation party? We have ideas for all graduation parties, but also virtual graduation parties, kindergarten, and high school!
If you find our budget sheet useful, you might find our graduation party checklist helpful, too!
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6 Reasons You’ll Love Our Graduation Party Budget Worksheet
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1. Event-Specific
Your graduation party should be a one-of-a-kind, memorable event, and your expense tracker shouldn't be any generic old template! Our budget planner has categories and line items that specifically make sense for a graduation party.
2. Pie Charts
Once you start filling in your budget items, the expense sheet will automatically start filling in the pie charts at the top of the page. These graphs will show you visually how much you’re spending by category. Use this tool to gauge if you want to allocate more to a specific category, or less to another!
3. Easy to View
The sheet is organized in a user-friendly fashion. Instead of having all of the details in one long list like you may have had otherwise, this sheet separates graduation party expenses by category.
Another formatting feature that will help you plan is the estimated and actual columns. You can start out with a rough budget in the estimated column, and once the ball gets rolling and you know actual prices, you can adjust spending accordingly.
4. Shareable!
This sheet is easily shared through Google Sheets, so you can easily work with fellow planners to get this event planned in record time. Having everyone’s eyes on the same sheet reduces the possibility of costly or important mistakes.
5. Easy to Organize
If you are sharing this sheet with fellow planners, you will find it easy to assign people to certain expenses with the ‘who pays’ column! This will ensure someone is on top of making sure that the item is ready to go.
6. Individual Payment Tab
Our sheet also lets you keep track of individual expenses and payments made on the Payment Tab (found at the bottom of the worksheet). Simply enter the Total Cost and assign the person responsible for payments for that item. Then enter your payments made and we'll calculate the amount left.
How to Use Our Graduation Party Budget Worksheet
Simply click the "Download" button and click the "Make a copy" button when prompted. That will save the sheet to your own Google Drive. Once you’re ready to start planning for your big day, visit our instructions page where we outline how to use the sheet, step by step. If you have a question about how to share the document with your family, or how to customize line items, you’ll find all you need to know right there!
Graduation Party Budget Worksheet: Conclusion
Now that you have a simple way to organize your graduation party expenses, you can plan stress-free! Our budget calculator will help you organize all the little details so you won’t have to worry. If you find this tool to be a time-saver, you might find our budget sheets for other events helpful, too!
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Written by Maaike Hassman; Contributor: Jack Leduc