All organizations should use some sort of budget or budgeting process. The form of the budget and the process will be driven by the needs and nature of the organization. To explore the use of budgets in real world situations, please use a past or present work or volunteer organization to respond in full sentences to the following requirements:

1. Identify the past or present work or volunteer organization and summarize the primary services or goods provided by this entity.
2. Identify your role in the organization in general.
3. Describe the type of budget or budgeting process used in your chosen organization.
4. Discuss how the budget or budgeting process affected you.
5. Discuss positives and negatives you experienced with budgeting in this organization.
6. Compare your real-world experience to the text materials. Did your experience align with the types of budgets or with any of the advantages or disadvantages discussed in the text?
7. Wrap up your discussion by describing one key point that you learned or which surprised you from looking at your work activities in this manner.