Answer - Spreadsheet
It is recommended that Randy should use a spreadsheet to set up a budget, as this would give him the ability to enter in expenses and savings, as well as set up charts and graphs that show what projections will be for current and future savings.
It's to show an exception (which is often the purpose of "yet") because in the first clause it identifies an action, then then it's like "but wait, maybe the action didn't really get going" in the second half of the sentence
Mary Jackson prepared an assignment but John Becker was not ready to approve the result of the assignment which led to the disagreement between them.
It became evident later that John Becker had the wrong input data which made him the wrong party in the disagreement.
Answer:
✔The first thing
✔Then
Explanation:
The above words are the details in the text that indicate a chronological structure.
Chronological order/structure refers to a way of organization in which events are arranged or presented in order as they occur or occurred in time. It's known to be a structure of sequence.
Words that denote chronological order/structure in texts are first, third, second, until, then, after, later, at last, next, etc.
In the text, the use of "The first thing" and "then" actually indicate a chronological order.