<topic sku="dlxbiz" tNum="287176" author="leighanw" xmlns="x-schema:hhTopicSchema.xml"><index><title>Learn about the Lifetime Planner</title><category>lifeplan</category><klink type="cncpt">Tell me about the Lifetime Planner in the Lifetime Planner</klink></index>
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<p>Money's Lifetime Planner helps you accomplish your long-term goals. These might include retirement, paying for college, taking a sabbatical from work, and so on.</p>
<p>You can try out just about any event that might have a major financial impact on your lifetime plan. For example, you can "model" what would happen if you took some time off work, received an inheritance, sent all your kids to college, or retired early. You can enter these events in your plan or try out the Financial Event Modeler. This feature uses your actual data, but lets you test different scenarios without actually putting them in your lifetime plan.</p>
<p>Your lifetime plan is automatically integrated with information you enter elsewhere in Money. For example, when you update the balances of your investment and other accounts in the Accounts & Bills area, they're automatically updated in the Lifetime Planner.</p>
<p>Once you create your lifetime plan, the Lifetime Planner tells you what you need to do to start following through. If you keep your accounts current, update your goals as they change, and try to follow the other strategies suggested throughout the Lifetime Planner, your forecasts will be accurate<mdash/> no matter where life takes you.</p>
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<tease>What other planning tools are available in Money?</tease>
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<p>The Debt Reduction Planner can help you create a plan to get out of debt. <alink type="cncpt" href="learnabouttheDebtReductionPlanner.xml"/></p>
<p>The Budget Planner can help you create a budget so you can better manage your income and expenses. <alink type="cncpt" href="LearnWhatsNewInTheBudgetPlanner.xml"/></p>
