IT Project Budget & Vendor Tracker (Excel)
Cost lines, vendors, SOWs and invoices in one workbook, with a plan-versus-actual dashboard that shows the forecast at completion rather than just what has been spent.

Spend-to-date is the least useful budget number in project management. What a sponsor needs is the forecast at completion and the variance against plan, and that requires the committed-but-not-yet-invoiced work to be visible.
Holding cost lines, SOWs and invoices in the same workbook is what makes that possible: the commitment exists on the SOW register before it ever appears as an invoice.
Who it is for
IT project and programme managers accountable for a project budget with external suppliers.
What is included
- Home — how the sheets relate
- Budget Board — the working view
- Cost Lines — budget by category and period
- Dashboard — plan versus actual, variance and forecast at completion
- Vendors & SOW — supplier register with contracted values
- Invoices — received, approved, paid, and what remains committed
When to use it
- Finance and the project disagree on what has been spent
- A steering committee has asked for a forecast at completion
- Several SOWs are live and commitments are not visible anywhere
Format and compatibility
- File format
- Microsoft Excel workbook (.xlsx)
- Editable
- Yes — nothing locked, protected or watermarked
- Delivery
- Instant download after purchase on Etsy
- Licence
- Single-user commercial use on your own projects. See licence and downloads.
- Price
- €29,00
Delivered as a standard .xlsx workbook. No macros — the .xlsx format cannot contain them, so it opens without security warnings and passes corporate download policies. Every cell is editable; nothing is locked or password protected.
Questions
Does it replace the finance system?
No, and it should not try to. It is the project view — finance remains the record of truth for actuals.
Can it handle capex and opex split?
Cost lines carry a category field you can use for that, or for any other split your organisation reports on.
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