Example Budget Layout

Week 4 Project

 

Creating a Budget

In this assignment you will create a spreadsheet and a chart to help a hypothetical couple work out their budget. You will submit a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet following the directions below to the appropriate submission folder by the due date. You will name this file W4P_LastName.xlsx.

Click on the link below, Week 4 Project Tips, for some visual aids on how to tackle this week’s project.

Week 4 Project Tips

Please Note:Information to help you with this project is available in the Week 4 online lectures, your textbook, as well as Microsoft Excel Help (F1). Your professor is also a great resource. If you work ahead, you can post questions about this assignment on the Questions for the Professor discussion board and still submit your assignment on time.

Scenario

Tom and Sally were trying to get a handle on their budget. They heard that MS Excel could help them with that.  Tom is going to school and has cut back on his hours. Sally has finished her associate’s degree and is working full time. They want to look at the last three months of their income and expenses to see where they can make changes.

Part I – The Spreadsheet

First, in an Excel Spreadsheet, create a budget to show Tom and Sally’s income, expenses, and money leftover each month (Net). Create formulas in your spreadsheet for your calculations using the following data:

  • Tom brought home $1,000 a month for January, February, and March.
  • Sally brought home $1,900, $2,000, and $1,975 respectively for those three months.
  • They paid $1,000 for rent and utilities each month.
  • They paid $88 for insurance each month.
  • They paid $60 for cell phones and $60 for Internet/TV each month.
  • They spent $600, $750 (due to a big birthday bash), and $500 on food respectively.
  • Their car payment and gas came to $225, $250, and $300 respectively.
  • Entertainment and gifts were $75, $100, and $45 respectively.
  • They paid a little extra on their credit card $150, $125, and $100 respectively.
  • They allocated $200 each month for personal grooming and health care.
  • They put $100 each month into savings.
  • Miscellaneous Expenses came to $200, $100, and $400 respectively.

A sample budget layout is included below as an example of one way to lay out a budget.

Example Budget Layout

Part II – The Chart

Once you have worked out the budget spreadsheet, use the tabs at the bottom of the page to open another sheet. Here you will create a chart similar to the example below using the tools you learned about in the lectures and the textbook. On the new sheet:

  1. Create a column chart to visually represent their monthly expenses. If you have a challenge getting the chart on this sheet, research how to move your chart using your reading or Help (F1). You might also try right clicking on the chart.
  2. Add a descriptive title to the chart.

Example Line Chart

Part III – Changing Values

  1. Copy everything from Sheet 1 (the budget calculations) and paste it into a new worksheet.
  2. Change values for Sally’s March income to $200 more. Let’s say that they didn’t use as much heat in March and their utilities were $75 less (you could use a formula to figure out $75 less but you don’t have to). See how the totals change automatically if you used formulas correctly. If the values did not change, check your formulas and try them again. Seek help if you can’t figure this out.
  3. Rename each of your three spreadsheets with descriptive names.

By the due date assigned, submit this budget to the Submissions Area. In the message box, share how the process of creating this went for you, including any challenges, successes, or insights. In the Comments box, briefly share your experiences with completing this project.

Portfolio Assignment

Create a Disaster Recovery Plan for either the organization they work for or one they wish to work for in the future.  The plan will follow the template/example provided.

 Should request prior authorization of company to be addressed to ensure that all students are working on unique companies.

**Even though this is a technical document, for academic purposes, all sources should be cited and referenced.Portfolio assignment will be due the end of Week 15.

***Yout may modify some of the sections per the company they have selected but all students will need to complete a DR Plan for the Portfolio Requirement.

 ****SafeAssign should be turned on and reviewed since it will flag a lot of the common elements but we want to make sure the students are writing the content from scratch.

Statistic Management

Read Min Case Study 1 “Teach for America”  and answer the case study questions at the end of the text in a 2 and a half page paper (excluding title and reference pages) include at least three peer-reviewed sources found.

Note: My assignments will need actual references from EBSCO host, google scholar, and semantic scholar With a website link at the end.  Only use APA 7th edition. 

Create a conference room scheduler PHP web application.

Requirements:

  • Allow users to login to the site
  • Allow users to register to the site
  • Users should be able to reserve rooms for a specified date and time range
  • Validate user input
  • Display error messages when appropriate.
  • List conference room reservations sorted in date and start time order
  • Allow two display options: 
    • All-display all conference room reservation schedules; past and future
    • Future-display conference room reservations that are scheduled in the future only

* Do not allow reservations outside of business hours or during the weekends

Attached is my code that you will build off of and the SQL for the database I am using

Assignment

Complete the Developing Intimacy with your Data Exercise located at the following link:

Working With Data (Click chapter 4 and then exercises)

Submit a brief paper discussing:

  • Why you selected your data set?
  • What are the physical properties of the data set?
  • What could you do/would you need to do to clean or modify the existing data to create new values to work with? 
  • What other data could you imagine would be valuable to consolidate the existing data?

Include a screenshot showing your using R, SQL, or Python to perform a manipulation of your data.

Exercises

DEVELOPING INTIMACY WITH YOUR DATA

This exercise involves you working with a dataset of your choosing. Visit the Kaggle website, browse through the options and find a dataset of interest, then follow the simple instructions to download it. With acquisition completed, work through the remaining key steps of examining, transforming and exploring your data to develop a robust familiarisation with its potential offering:

Examination: Thoroughly examine the physical properties (type, size, condition) of your dataset, noting down useful observations or descriptions where relevant.

Transformation: What could you do/would you need to do to clean or modify the existing data to create new values to work with? What other data could you imagine would be valuable to consolidate the existing data?

Exploration: Using a tool of your choice (such as Excel, Tableau, R) to visually explore the dataset in order to deepen your appreciation of the physical properties and their discoverable qualities (insights) to help you cement your understanding of their respective value. If you don’t have scope or time to use a tool, use your imagination to consider what angles of analysis you might explore if you had the opportunity? What piques your interest about this subject?

(You can, of course, repeat this exercise on any subject and any dataset of your choice, not just those on Kaggle.)

Organ Leader and Decision Making

 After completing the reading this week, we reflect on a few key concepts this week:

  1. Discuss what power in the context of leadership is and how it relates to bullying within organizations.  Also note how this impacts productivity.
  2. Discuss what organizational culture is and how it impacts work productivity.  Also, note how organizational culture impacts the success of innovation implementation.
  3. How does culture impact leadership? Can culture be seen as a constraint on leadership?

FTK imager lite & Autopsy

1) What type of device or system did you select to conduct your forensics investigation?

2) What tool did you use for the data capture? 

3) What did you learn from the experience?

· No Plagiarism 

· APA Format required

· Each Answer Should be 350 words without References.

!!! NEED 2 ANSWERS FOR ABOVE QUESTIONS WITH 0% PLAGIARISM!!!!

!!! One Answer using FTK IMAGER LITE Tool !!! 

!!! Second Answer using Autopsy Tool !!! 

STRATEGIC PLANNING

– This research paper will be 8-10 pages  ( excluding the title page and reference page) CAN BE ANY TOPIC PERTAINING TO STRATEGIC PLANNING!

    –  (4) Peer review or Scholarly  sources

    –  (2) Non-peer reviewed sources

    – APA 7 correct

A 10 slides in PPT