Balancing Your Budget

Inspiration

Many people suffer due to poor financial planning, we want to help people take control of their budget and aid them in limiting their wasteful spending

What it does

Calculates the year total for income/outcome sources and displays that information in a table

How I built it

Worked in Java; created a JFrame and had JButton control most of the setting. Backend, some classes deal with calculations and displays information correctly

Challenges I ran into

We have never used JSwing for graphics before so we were constantly troubleshooting bugs that derivated from them

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We were able to put together a good and functioning application, we're very happy about that

What I learned

We learned a lot about income tax rates and how income is handled. We also learned how to use JSwing correctly

What's next for Balancing Your Budget

-Add a system for choosing a state for state income tax (correctly hardcoded for Ohio) -Add more extensive system calculating what income is taxable (correctly all income is taxable) -Add a system for tax rate reductions -Add the ability to sort the table by given factors -Getting rid of the start button (its reducant and its function can be given to other parts of the JFrame)

Built With

• java