Budgeting Flashcards
Unit Price and how to find it?
Unit price is the cost of one unit of something.
Can be found by: dividing total price by number of units
Fixed Cost
A cost that stays the same and will always exist
Varible Cost
A cost that changes and might happen regulary.
Zero-Based Budgeting
EVERY single dollar gets an assigned category so that nothing is leftover.
Cash Envelope System
Money is physically assigned into each envelope which serves as a category.
50/30/20
Needs 50, Wants 30, Savings 20
Noodle Budget
The LOWEST you can spend to maintain life.
It’s like your bare-bones budget that only includes necessities
Gross Pay
Pay w/ taxes
Pay that you DON’T keep everything
Net Pay
Pay after taxes are taken OUT
What you get to KEEP
Pay the pot
Spending on NEEDS FIRST
Wealth
Wealth = assets (money they have) minus debt
House Burdened
If housing costs are at least 30% of income (NOT 30% of living)