This class is offering the Personal Management Merit Badge over Zoom.  The course will focus on engaging, fun, group work for an informative way of learning this Eagle required merit badge. Zoom meeting information will be located in the highlighted section of your receipt (please scroll down on your email receipt to find zoom information).

After finishing the homework for this class, send in to CAPhomework@gmail.com. This will take a minimum of 90 days to complete and to record the progress of the following requirements:  

Personal Management  

• Requirement 2a-b  

•  (a) Prepare a budget reflecting your expected income (allowance, gifts, wages), expenses, and savings for a period of 13 consecutive weeks.   
• (b) Compare expected income with expected expenses. (1) If expenses exceed budget income, determine steps to balance your budget. (2) If income exceeds budget expenses, state how you would use the excess money (new goal, savings). (c) Track and record your actual income, expenses, and savings for 13 consecutive weeks (the same 13-week period for which you budgeted). (You may use the forms provided in this pamphlet, devise your own, or use a computer-generated version.) When complete, present the records showing the results to your merit badge counselor. (d) Compare your budget with your actual income and expenses to understand when your budget worked and when it did not work. With your merit badge counselor, discuss what you might do differently the next time.  

• Requirement 8c  

• (c) Follow the one-week schedule you planned. Keep a daily diary or journal during each of the seven days of this week’s activities, writing down when you completed each of the tasks on your “to do” list compared to when you scheduled them.