Budgeting Decisions

A Personal Finance Interactive Software Simulation

Students gain real-world knowledge to make the right choices when faced with budgeting decisions of their own.

Overview

In this new interactive simulation, students must decide if 16 diverse young people are making good budgeting decisions. Students face a total of 96 unique decisions covering all aspects of budgeting!

Each of the young adults your students will meet in this program is facing their own challenging budgeting decisions that will have a serious impact on their lives. Your students will decide if they are making the right decisions or not. As your students learn about each of these young people and their real-life budgeting situations, they'll gain the knowledge they need to make the right choices when they face budgeting decisions in their own lives.

For example:

  • How Alex should budget the money he earns?
  • Does Ling need a roommate to meet her expenses? How can Mia cut her budget?
  • Should Nick spend 48% of his income on his rent and car payment?

After each decision is made, students receive an explanation of why that decision was correct or incorrect. As students analyze these situations, they'll gain the knowledge they need to make wise budgeting choices for themselves.

At any time during the program, students can save their work and return to the same place in the program at a later time. They can also print their results at any time to turn in.

System Requirements and Sofware Specifications

 Windows Vista/7/8
1 GHz 32 BIT (x86) or 64 BIT (x64) processor
1 GB of system memory
DirectX 9 graphics support

 

Windows XP
1.4 GHz or faster processor and 512 MB of RAM (1 GB Recommended) 

 

Mac OS X 
The software requires Adobe AIR which will only run on OS X 10.6 or higher
128 MB RAM or higher

 

 

Specifications

Grade: 6-8, 9-12

Budgeting Decisions (Single Computer License) (CD)
Sound is optional.
© 2012
Software Spec's: Mac OS X 10.6 or higher, Windows 7, 8, 10

Budgeting Decisions (5 Computer License) (CD)
Sound is optional.
© 2012
Software Spec's: Mac OS X 10.6 or higher, Windows 7, 8, 10

Budgeting Decisions (Building License) (CD)
Sound is optional.
© 2012
Software Spec's: Mac OS X 10.6 or higher, Windows 7, 8, 10

Item # Item Name ISBN Qty. Unit Price Total
SS-BDGT-DEC-1 Budgeting Decisions (Single Computer License) $99.95
SS-BDGT-DEC-2 Budgeting Decisions (5 Computer License) $199.95
SS-BDGT-DEC-SLA Budgeting Decisions (Building License) $399.95
Product Total: $0.00