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Automated Financial Actuals Ingestion & Budget Variance Dashboard

Microsoft Excel Office 365 Power Query CSV Ingestion
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Pain Points (Public)

Individuals and small business owners managing custom annual budgets in Excel face tedious manual copy-pasting whenever they export monthly transaction logs from personal finance apps like Simplifi, resulting in brittle data structures, mismatched category mappings, and delayed visibility into budget overruns.

Suggested Approach (Public)

Design an Office 365 Excel workbook powered by Power Query that automatically ingests dropped CSV transaction exports, standardizes categories, and immediately refreshes variance summaries against the annual plan without manual formula maintenance.

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Public Demand Evidence · 2 task(s)

"I need an automated Excel dashboard that gives me a clear, at-a-glance view of budget versus actual results. All the raw numbers already live in a…"
freelancer · $30 - $250 · 1 day ago Source ↗
"I need a robust yet easy-to-maintain Excel workbook (Office 365) that holds my full annual budget, then pulls in Simplifi monthly actuals via the CSV…"
freelancer · $250 - $750 · 1 month ago Source ↗

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