💰 Personal Budget Tracker

A command-line budget tracker to manage income, track expenses, analyze spending, and calculate the remaining budget.

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🚀 Features

• Add Income: Record income with amount and category.
• Add Expense: Track expenses with amount and category.
• Calculate Remaining Budget: View your available balance.
• Analyze Expenses: Get a breakdown of spending by category.
• Persistent Storage: Transactions are saved in a JSON file.

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🛠️ Installation & Usage

📌 Prerequisites

• Python 3.x installed on your system.

🔧 Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/YOUR_REPO_NAME.git
   cd YOUR_REPO_NAME

2. Run the script:

python budget_tracker.py

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📜 How to Use

When you run the script, you will see a command menu: Budget Tracker Menu:

1. Add Income
2. Add Expense
3. Calculate Remaining Budget
4. Analyze Expenses
5. Exit

• 💵 Adding an Income Entry:
• Enter the income amount.
• Provide a category (e.g., Salary, Bonus, Freelance).
• 🛍️ Adding an Expense Entry:
• Enter the expense amount.
• Provide a category (e.g., Rent, Groceries, Entertainment).
• 💰 Calculating Remaining Budget:
• The program will sum total income and total expenses to show the remaining budget.
• 📊 Analyzing Expenses:
• The program will display a category-wise expense breakdown.

📂 File Structure

📁 Personal-Budget-Tracker

• ┣ 📜 transactions.json # Stores transactions persistently
• ┣ 📜 budget_tracker.py # Main script
• ┗ 📜 README.md # Documentation

🤝 Contributing

Feel free to fork the repository and submit pull requests! 🚀

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

💡 Author

• Harshsa
• 📧 vinjamuriharsha123@gmail.com
• 🔗 LinkedIn | GitHub