[conductr]

Those tools will only slow you down, use Excel.

Also the pain you mentioned is exponential with those tools compared to in Excel. You’ll never have perfect budget unless you have a crystal ball and can anticipate everything that will change. Just explain the variance and move on. Forecasting is meant to somewhat solve this issue. Budget become quickly stale, the forecast is budget altered by a few big issues (usually things unknown during the budget). Also usually helpful to replace budget with actual as they become available