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Dev Raga Personal Finance
218 budgeting strategies
Season 2, Ep. 18
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The best budgeting strategy is the one that works for you. In this episode Dev shares a few, including:
๐๐ป 4 budgeting strategies to manage your personal finances (50/30/20, zero-based, values-based and the Dev Raga budget)
๐ 4 types of corporate budgets that can be used by businesses (incremental, activity-based, value proposition and zero-based)
๐๐พ 3 ways that managers can create a budget for their staff
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