Budgeting for a trip.

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GCSE ICT Project

MS Excel

Budgeting for a trip

Eliana Tacconi 10c2

Part 1-Identify

Statement of the Problem

My friend Thomas Edmondson and I are planning a trip in the summer holidays to Bologna. We need to work out the different costs for accommodation, food, transport and amusements. The user for this will be Thomas Edmondson. I am going to do this in a system because it would be difficult to work out the costs and keep it all in order in a written document. Using this system will allow us to work out our budget and sort everything efficiently.

Consideration of Alternative Solutions

There are some different ways in which this problem could be solved.

1. We could write and calculate everything by hand, this is the method we were originally using but we need a better system.

2. A special program could be written to do this. This is time consuming and I do not have the right skills for it.

3. I could use a database package. Each person's budget and expenditure could be stored but this isn't as well suited to the requirements as