Whos swallowing all the pie-charts?
If at the end of each month you wonder where all your money has gone, there’s an online banking service about to be launched which could tell you exactly where you’ve spent your cash. First Direct is about to pilot a new feature for its internet banking customers which will produce instant graphs and pie-charts of where they’ve blown all their money. This “spending analysis” service takes the information from a customer’s monthly statement and turns it into charts which represent spending patterns, so that at a glance you might be able to compare how much you’ve spent on shopping sprees or on paying utility bills. This lifestyle budgeting tool, which will be free to online customers, can also show how spending patterns have changed compared to previous months, giving a more accurate picture of how much really was spent on those hazily remembered holiday months or during the Christmas party season. It’s a bit like Peter Snow taking his electronic election swingometer and flying graphics
