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.