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Task 2: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT EXERCISE

You are required to monitor a budget that you set for yourself and track your spending over a period of four (4/6) weeks. The exercise aims at getting to know your spending habits, your ability to manage a budget, and your decisions on how to distribute/use your resources (in this case your money). Please concentrate and be organized.

Exercise Instructions:

1. Decide on a budget for a month and keep monitoring what you do in it from a financial perspective (this means monitor your spending and the decisions you are doing for the next 4/6 weeks.
2. Start this weekend by going to your Google store or Apple store and download a Budget tracker freeapplication. This App might have different names (like money spending tracker, etc.).
3. Every day, starting this weekend, start recording all your daily expenses.
4. Analyze your daily expenses at the end of the exercise period (the one month) in the following way:
   1. What have you learnt from this exercise? Any new ideas about budgets, expenditures, monitoring your own financial decisions? Am I a spender? Am I someone who can save? Be honest with these reflections as it will help you to have better financial habits in your future life.
   2. Tell me how can you be a more responsible member of your family, your community, and the UAE in general as pertaining to your spending as a consumer? Do you buy things that you dont need, just for the sake of buying, do you spend money on products such as food or clothes or accessories in excess to what you need (thus wasting your money)?
   3. Think about your spending pattern, what could you do better? What is your biggest challenge in terms of expenses?
   4. Finally, what is your saving pattern? How can you save more money in the future? What is your motivation for saving?

Grading Rubrics

1. Analysis: Student discuses lessons learnt, new ideas about budgets, expenditures, monitoring own financial decisions, reflects on her spending behavior answering the following questions: Am I a spender? Am I someone who can save?
2. Vison: Student discusses the ideas about how he/she can be a more responsible member of the family, your community, and the UAE in general as pertaining to spending as a consumer?
3. Reflection on spending behavior: Students provides reflections on his/her spending pattern, improving spending behaviors and highlighting his/her biggest challenge in terms of expenses.
4. Reflection on saving behavior: Students discusses his/her saving pattern. Discusses How can he/she can save more money in the future as well as motivation for saving