Personal Budget Exercise – Excel Creating a spreadsheet track personal business expenses is an excellent use of Microsoft Excel. For this exercise, you will create a spreadsheet to enter a personal budget and track actual expenses for the year. You may choose to use real data or create a fictitious budget using a monthly income amount of $2,500. Here are suggested budget categories if you are not using a real budget. At a minimum, you must have 9 budget categories: Housing (mortgage or rent) Utilities Car payment Insurance Student Loans Food Misc. Entertainment Gas Savings
Note: All requirements must be met to earn points. While you may design your spreadsheet in a way that works well for you, failure to incorporate these elements will
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Use the SUM function to calculate the total amount under MONTHLY BUDGET
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Enter a row for "Total Monthly Expense" under the ITEM column. For Total Monthly Expense row set up the cells under each monthly column with a formula that will use the SUM function to add the amounts and show the result. Enter a Column for “Total” to the right of your last month. Enter a formula using the AutoSum drop-down option on your tool bar and insert the Sum function in the first budget item row, under Total. Then copy this formula down for all the other categories.
Enter a Column for "Average Expense" to the right of your last month. Enter a formula using the AutoSum drop-down option on your tool bar and insert the Average function. In the first budget item row, under
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Budget management analysis is used by mangers as a tool and helps determine that all resources available are being used efficiently. The budgets are determined yearly and are based upon the previous year’s budget and variances. This paper will discuss specific strategies to manage budgets within forecast, compare five to seven expense results with budget expectations, describe possible reasons for variances, give strategies to keep results aligned with expectations, recommend three benchmarking techniques, and identify those that might improve budget accuracy, and justify the choices made.
To get the formula you will need to click the F5 cell and type =SUM(B5:F5) formula. This will give the daily total for each expense. Once you are done with the first row you will need to enter the formula into the remaining rows. As an example you will type in F6 cell =SUM(B6:F6). This calculates each cell B6-F6. As for the formula that allows you to get the total of expenses for each category weekly, you will enter in the B13 cell and type =SUM(B5:B13) continue to do this for each cell. Which in the Hotels column you would type =SUM(C5:C13). This calculates C5-C13 and gives the total. To show which receipts need to be printed out for the accountant I would advise you to type =IF(F5>100,” YES”,”) So Bill can now highlight G5, press copy then
My personal finances are solid and on track with my attitudes towards money and savings. This budget exercise is common practice for me as I keep track of every dollar I spend. I am a saver and I keep track of my savings using a spreadsheet and updating my information almost every day. Budgeting is a necessary step in order to figure out where exactly money is going and how much of it is being allocated to different items.
Case II is a continuation of Case I. In this case you will convert the line-item budget developed in Case I into a functional budget. Then you will employ further information to create a flexible budget. Refer to the Case I Solution for data.
After reviewing your income statement and seeing how you allocate costs, I created a segmented income statement (Ex-1). This statement allows us to see exactly how the costs are broken down according to your current system. According to your specifications, it
The balance sheet on excel allowed me to estimate my monthly budget of approximately $350 after fixed costs are considered. I was then able to produce a monthly spending plan using data from excel. My monthly spending plan included:
How will I allocate my income to cover monthly expenditures (rent, car, insurance, food, entertainment, medical expenses, utilities, debt, other)?
A company's budget serves as a guideline in planning and committing costs in order to meet tactical and strategic goals. Tactical goals such as providing budgetary costs for daily operations, and strategic objectives that include R&D, production, marketing, and distribution are all part of the budgeting process. Serving as a guideline rather than being set in stone, the budget is a snapshot of manager's "best thinking at the time it is prepared." (Marshall, 2003, p.496) The budget is a method in which to reign-in discretionary spending, and will likely show variances between what costs have been anticipated and what costs are actually incurred.
Based on the master budget, there have something wrong and unclear. All the numbers are the same, evenly quarter two have more sale than other quarter, at least less 30% than quarter two. We can easy to recognize with a few changes and we can achieve a goal $1.000.000
Budgeting is the systematic method of allocating financial, physical, and human resources to achieve an organization’s strategic goals. Budgets are utilized by for-profit and non-profit organizations to monitor the progress towards the goals, assist in the control of spending, and help predict cash flow for the organization.
There are many different expense categories families can incorporate within their personal household budgets, some of which are represented in the four person family household budget I have created in this learning activity 4 assignment and some that are not used here but families have or
Types of expense |1 |2 |3 |4 |5 |Total | | | | | | | | | |Gas |$3,600.00 |$3,600.00 |$3,600.00 |$3,600.00 |$3,600.00 |$18,000.00 | |Repairs and Maintenance |$800.00 |$928.00 |$1,048.00 |$1,160.00 |$1,264.00 |$5,200.00 | |Tires | |$760.00 |$760.00 |$760.00 |$760.00 |$3,040.00 | |Insurance |$2,400.00 |$2,400.00 |$2,400.00 |$2,400.00 |$2,400.00 |$12,000.00 | |Registration and taxes |$848.00 |$720.00 |$600.00 |$488.00 |$384.00 |$3,040.00 | |Depreciation |$9,720.00 |$5,832.00 |$3,500.00 |$2,100.00 |$1,348.00 |$22,500.00 | |Purchase
Budget is the major financial and economic statement. The role of the budget is to keep track of the money coming in and the money going out. It is essential part of running any business effectively. It can help make a short and long term projections about financial situation, avert a financial crisis and plan for major financial changes.
Establish your budget. Are you looking for an easy way to begin? On the first day of a new month, get a receipt for everything you purchase. Stack the receipts into categories like restaurants, groceries, and personal care. At the end of the month you will be able to clearly see where your money is going.