useful budget apps for the itouch

Here’s some applications for the itouch that I believe would be useful when it comes to the budget for a stage manager. The numbers are to state how useful I believe they’d be, 1 being very and going down from there.

 

1 Kashbook Free or Checkbook. Similar to a bank statement, you can start it with how much budget you have at the start of a show, and each time it’s used write it down. You can keep track of what exactly you bought, how much you spent and how much budget you have left without having to count all the petty cash and look at receipts, and could also help when doing the final paperwork regarding petty cash to ensure it’s accurate.

3 Pocketlint. Probably better for a production manager or someone overseeing various departments. You can create up to 8 seperate accounts and keep track of the budget manually. Each time a department comes back with a receipt or invoice for something you can write it down on this, under that departments account and know exactly how much they have left of their budget.

6 Compare It. As it says, it compares prices and quantities of any item to ensure you get the best deal.

2 Quick Tally. “Quick Tally was designed for one thing and one thing only; to allow the fast entry of a totaling list”. When adding up receipts and the like this could be useful.

4 BudgetPlanner. As it says, to plan budgets. It has a budget view, and then an actual view, so when working out your budget you can enter how much you intend to spend on several things, then later see how that was accurate (which while it may not help on that show, may help on the next for setting a more realistic budget).

5 Change. Useful when dealing with petty cash daily. When you get to a point where petty cash is in pounds and pence, each day you can enter how many of each coin there are so you know exactly how much petty cash you have left.

showtime

We’re now onto show week and everything’s going slightly smoother than previously, possibly becuase it now all feels like it’s coming to an end soon so we may as well keep up. While I’ve still found Mat kind of annoying at times (today Kieron was looking for him while me and Jane cleaned the venue and he was in the dressing room doing his hair) I have learned a few things from him, while I still thought I’d be managing CTP.

We discussed what would be classified as having to be risk assessed, and what’s not, how managing CTP is different to drama and before he told me how he works with marketing as a stage manager (and also explained that that was where he spent most of his time). So that was interesting and helpful. However despite this I still think I’ll learn more from Hannah during panto.