PulteGroup
In what industry does Pulte operate?
What is homebuilding?
This spreadsheet tracks our land budgets across accounts per community.
What is a LDA?
What excel function totals a column or row of numbers?
What is SUM()?
What is under budget?
What is the most common used Excel shortcut for copy?
What is Ctrl +C?
What city is Pultes corporate HQ located in?
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
What do we use to push through budget changes on communities?
What is a BRF?
What do you call the horizontal collections of cells in Excel?
What are rows?
What is it called when you compare budgeted vs actual spend?
What is variance analysis?
What TV show made accountants famous with characters like Kevin?
What is The Office?
Name one brand under the Pulte umbrella.
What is Pulte homes, Centex, or Del Webb?
This is the term for what a company owns - like cash, property, or inventory.
What is an asset?
You want to lock a cell reference when copying a formula. What symbol do you use?
What is the dollar sign ($) to make an absolute reference?
What is it called when you predict future costs or revenue for a project?
What is forecasting?
In Monoply, owning all properties of one color lets you do this.
What is build houses?
This person founded PulteGroup in 1950.
Who is Bill Pulte?
This is the term for what a company owes - like loans and unpaid bills.
What is a liability?
This tool lets you quickly summarize data without written formulas.
What is a PivotTable?
You spend 12K of a 15K marketing budget. What % of your budget did you use?
What is 80%?
You buy 5 Starbucks drinks a week at 5$ each. How much is that per month?
What is $100?
What is one cost category that significantly impacts homebuilding profitability?
What is material or labor cost?
The term for money left after all expenses have been paid.
What is net income?
What function would you use to return data from a different table based on a matching value?
What is a XLOOKUP or VLOOKUP?
This metric compares what you spent to what you planned to spend, often shown as % or ratio.
What is budget accuracy?
Which job gets paid first: contractor, subcontractor, or intern>
Depends.... but hopefully the intern!