家庭财务

    Both the husband and wife are wage-earners.

    This job offers fat paycheck.

    Today is pay day.

    I have a family to feed.

    Living expenses eat most of our income.

    We paid 2000 dollars in tax last year.

    She records every income and expense.

    I often set aside some of money for emergency use.

    开支明细

    We need to figure how much money we are spending and what we are spending
on.

    Why ？

    Well， I think we could be saving more.

    Really？ Well ， okay. Get the receipts out.

    Let's see. We spent $700 for our home loan payment， $400 on groceries，
$75 on utilities， $250 on gasoline ， $100 on books， and $300 on entertainment
last month.

    That's $1825.

    We put $500 into the savings account， and $750 into our stock account.

    $3075 ， our pay checks are $3300 combined. That means we don't have
any receipts for $225.

    Right.