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16.25: Assignment- Four Personal Budgets in Excel

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    For this activity, you will complete four budgets – one Business budget, one Forecasts (projects) budget, one Home Budget, and one Customized Personal Budget.

    Directions:

    1. Review the module content related to Microsoft Excel 2010.

    2. In Microsoft Excel, click on File, New, and Budgets.

    3. Select one template out of each of the following categories:

    • 1 template from Business Budgets
    • 1 template from Forecasts (projects)
    • 1 template from Home Budgets

    4. Plan a budget from each of the categories for:

    • your future business using the Business Budget template
    • your future project(s) using the Forecasts template
    • your future home expenses using the Home Budget template

    5. Next, complete a customized personal budget based on your future income.

    • To assist you with this, visit http://www.salary.com (Links to an external site.) and research your future salary based on your major and the area that you are planning to live in.
    • Research the area where you would like to live after graduating from Wiley College.
    • Be sure to consider the cost of housing, food, etc. in the area using, for example, a Google search related to the budget item and the area.

    6.  Save all four budgets:

    • Business Budget using Excel Templates
    • Forecasts (projects) Budget using Excel Templates
    • Home Budget using Excel Templates
    • Customized Personal Budget

    7. Upload your budgets to the submission.

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    • Budget Assignment. Authored by: Veronica McEachin. Provided by: Wiley College . Project: Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative. License: CC BY: Attribution

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