The Budget program provides a number of ways to help you stick to your budget.

Knowing that you have allocated the proper amount to each of your envelopes insures that at the time the bill is due there will be enough funds to cover the bill. As you allocated money to each envelope the program tells you the remaining amount of your pay. This allows you to modify the allocations to each envelope to set up a budget that you can actually live within.

The ability to easily see how much money is in each of your envelopes is the best way to keep to your budget. If the envelopes show negative numbers you will realize very quickly that something is wrong. Likewise, if the envelopes start to build up more money than necessary you can start trimming back that envelope and use the money for other envelopes.

You can use the Budget Statistics function to see how well you are doing keeping to your budget. This function provides information on how much you budget for an envelope and how much you actually spend from that envelope.

There are also a number of reports that can be printed to record how well you are keeping to your budget.