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Budgeting
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12th Grade
10/25/2006

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What is a Budget?
Definition
A plan for managing money during a given period of time.
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What is Income?
Definition
It is money coming in.
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What is Gross Income?
Definition
Total amount of income from your wages or salary before payroll deductions.
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What is Payroll Deductions?
Definition
It is the amounts subtracted from gross income, which results in your net income.
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What are Taxes?
Definition
They are fees placed on income, property,or goods to support government programs.
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What is Federal Income Tax?
Definition
It is a fee for the support of federa. government programs and is a payroll deduction collected by the employer each pay period and paid to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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What is State Income Tax?
Definition
It is also subtracted from your paycheck. Its a fee collected by your employer and paid to the state revenue deparetment to support state programs.
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What is Social Security Tax?
Definition
It is collected from most employees to fund this federal program which provides oldage, survivors, and disability insurance.
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What is Medicare Taxes?
Definition
They are collected from most employees to fund the hospital insurance provided under this system.
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What is Net Income?
Definition
It is called your "take home pay", the amount you recieve when you cash your check or deposit it.
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What is a W-4 for?
Definition
To tell your employer how much to withhold from your paycheck for taxes.
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What is a W-2 for?
Definition
To show the taxes withheld from your paycheck for that year.
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What are Expenses?
Definition
Its the money you spend on your needs and wants, and money going out.
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What is Fixed Expenses?
Definition
It's a set dollar amounts and are the exact amount every time.
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What is Variable Expenses?
Definition
It can change, which means you usually have more control over them.
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What is Cash Management?
Definition
It's how you handle money coming in and money going out. Referred as "CASH FLOW".
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What does P.Y.F stand for?
Definition
Pay yourself first.
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What is a Checking account?
Definition
It is an account you have at a finacial insitution that you use for convenience and to minimize the amount of cash you need to carry.
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A car payment is an example of a vaiable expense True or False?
Definition
False it isnt.
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When the costs of a service outweigh its benefits, its a good purchase True or False?
Definition
False it isnt.
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What are 2 simple parts of a budget?
Definition
income and expenses.
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What are 3 deductions that are subtracted from most people's paychecks?
Definition
Social Security Tax
State Income Tax
Federal Income Tax
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