Creating a budget and need help

Hi all,

Im really new to excel 2010 and completely lost at the moment,

I am trying to create a budget that has 4 columns as follows

Name of expense
Amount budgeted
Category ( household, utilities, savings,vehicle)
Spent ( how much you spent in relation to the amount you budgeted )

In the 'category' column I have created a drop down list with the different options like ( utilities, household,vehicle ) , so we can easily select an option and see which category your expense falls into.

now i would like to create a chart that will use the 'category' column and 'amount budgeted' to show how much vehicles, utilities, savings etc are costing me in the form of a chart or bar graph

but i have no idea how to create a chart like that, please bear in mind that sometimes the same category will be used twice like ( household ) so i need to add the all the household(category) expenses and a total amount in my chart.

please help

budget.xlsx

Hi,
In the attached file, a way to do that, via a pivot table.
Can this help ?
AL

here attached is another way.
AL
budget2.xlsx

Thanks for your help, much appreciated and it ws exactly what i was looking for.