Video Explaination of Resource This project has students complete a comprehensive budget.  I allow students to select a career directly after college graduation or within one year of graduation.

In this 45- minute lesson, Students will be able to
- Track and evaluate a sample student’s current spending habits and expenses
- Determine what the student’s priorities and financial goals are
- Explain how a budget can help the student achieve their financial goals
- Create a plan that outlines the next steps for the student to take

In this 60-minute lesson, students will be able to:
● Prioritize budget categories based on needs, wants, and savings goals
● Explain the difference between gross pay and net pay and why net pay is used when creating a budget
● Analyze a pay stub

This lesson teaches students about the importance of budgets. First, use the Discussion Guide (found in Task 1) to teach students about this concept. Then, use the activity (found in Task 3) to assess their understanding. This activity allows students to understand the importance of budgeting, as well as to interpret and analyze budgeting decisions. A sample answer guide is provided in the Resource Library. A full lesson module related to this concept can be found on the MBA Learning Center. Visit mba.instructure.com and search for "FI:106" in the Commons. 

In this 60-minute lesson, students will be able to:
- Explain the difference between gross pay and net pay
- Explain why we pay taxes and how the tax revenue is used
- Explain basic budgeting strategy and why it’s important to follow a budget

This course is an introduction to the use of accounting information by managers for decision making, performance evaluation and control. The course should be useful for those who intend to work as management consultants, for LFM (Leaders for Manufacturing) students, and in general, for those who will become senior managers.

This resource is an interactive student activity where students will create a budget and describe steps they can save to minimize spending.  This activity provides step-by-step information and examples to create a student budget.  Students are also given the opportunity to use Excel (Google Sheets) to create their budget and analyze it through the creation of charts and graphs.

In this 60-minute lesson, students will be able to:
● Categorize purchases into needs and wants
● Prioritize spending using a limited budget
● Adapt a budget based on changing financial circumstances

This lesson allows students to think about Needs and Wants and how each of those affects budgeting decisions. 

This is an online game about surviving poverty and homelessness created by ad agency McKinney for pro bono client Urban Ministries of Durham (UMD), whose mission "is to provide food, clothing, shelter and supportive services to neighbors in need".[1] Players must make the difficult decisions necessary to live for one month on $1,000, often having to choose between equally disagreeable options. The dilemmas they face represent those that bring people to places like UMD: Do you make a healthy meal or keep the lights on? Cover the minimum on your credit cards or pay the rent? Hope your sick daughter gets better on her own or risk your job by leaving early to take her to the doctor? Let your son play in the after-school sports league or save the money needed for his uniform?
The game ends when players either run out of money before the end of the month or make it through with money left over.
Since its launch in February 2011, the interactive game SPENT has been played more than 4 million times in over 218 countries.[2]
Excerpted from:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPENT

Students are able to decide where in Texas they are going to live and then make financial choices that will correlate with the lifetyle they think they want to have. They will decide where they live, what they buy, and what they save. Once they make all of their financial decisions, they will be given a minimum salary that they will need to be able to maintain that lifestyle. They are then able to search jobs that they are interested in and see the starting salaries that they come with. This allows them to see the reality of what their lifetyle and career path is.

In this lesson, you will use two different websites to help you navigate the cost of paying for college and help build a budget for life after graduation.

In this 60-minute lesson, students will be able to:
- Analyze monthly household expenses
- Explain the benefits of using a budget
- Create a sample budget

In this 60-minute lesson, students will be able to:
- Summarize the general use of tax revenue by the government
- Explain which categories account for the most government spending, how they affect us, and with which - organizations/entities they are associated
- Demonstrate the importance and use of taxes with the MOVE: Your Tax Dollar In Action activity