Budget Analysis for the Student Farm

Faculty Supervisor: Dave Lenze

Course: Smeal Sapphire APEX course

Semester: Fall 2018

Students: team of four seniors

SDG: 16 – Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

The student team in this capstone course analyzed three years of historical financial data from the Student Farm to determine appropriate budget categories and provide a report on spending by category. From this historical data, the team developed budget projections for the Student Farm expansion. This project provided important data for ongoing farm program budgeting.