2. Why is budgeting important?
Balance your income and your
expenditures. If your expenditure
is greater than your income, you
end up in debt. If your income is
greater than your expenditure,
then then you have savings.
3. Give a feeling of comfort
and satisfaction knowing
that your income is
enough for the expenses
of the family.
Why is budgeting important?
4. Enable the family to list
down their needs and
wants and to prioritize the
needs more than their
wants.
Why is budgeting important?
5. Give the family a full and
better life knowing that
the needs are satisfied
first before the wants.
Why is budgeting important?
6. Have a constant reminder
that you are in control of
the family finances, thus,
reducing worries, tension
and stress.
Why is budgeting important?
10. Just like budgeting it
should be equally
distributed but there is a
factors to be considered.
11. 1. List down all things you need to be
considered in budgeting family income.
a. ___________
b. ___________
c. ___________
d. ___________
e. ___________
12. 2. Write your answer in the given strips.
3. Write as many as you can and let one
representative to explain the group answer.
14. 1. Amount of Income – the
higher the income of the
family, the greater the amount
that the family members can
spend for their needs and
wants.
15. 2. Size and Composition of the
Family – the more the family
members are there, the bigger
the amount of income is spent on
food, schooling, clothing and for
their basic needs.
16. 3. Values of the Family –
Different families and different
individuals have different values
so they have different priorities on
what to spend their money for.
17. 4. Needs and Wants of the Family
– needs are materials which
the family members need to
survive on a day-to-day basis.
18. • Food
• Shelter
• Clothing
Basic
Needs
• Water
• Education
• Transportation
• Lights
Considered
Needs
• materials that the family
members desire to
have
• They can postpone if
the budget is not
enough but can be
purchased if the budget
allows it.
Wants
19. 1. Know your income or
allowances for a definite
period of time – monthly,
weekly, twice a month.
20. 2. Make a list of expenses. Expenses can be
classified as:
• this is an amount set
aside regularly for
the daily expenses of
the family like food,
transportation,
children’s
allowances and
others.
Fixed
• this amount may
be increased or
decreased
depending on the
money available.
Flexible
• this amount may be
considered a form of
savings
• Emergency expenses
include health and
medical expenses,
special occasions like
birthday, fiesta, visiting
a sick or dead relative
Occasional and
Emergency
Expenses
21. 3. Determine the amount
to be spent on fixed and
flexible expenses.