<title>Learn what's new in the Budget Planner</title>
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<klink type="cncpt">Tell me what's new in the budget planner</klink>
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<p>Money's new Budget Planner is easy to set up and maintain. For your convenience, Money has removed the complexity found in earlier budgets. For example, the new budget includes a Savings Goals feature instead of the Long-Term Savings and Occasional Expense Fund to provide you with more flexibility. Likewise, the Debt area has been consolidated into an expense budget group called Debt.</p>
<p>It's easier to create a budget because you can have Autobudget pre-fill amounts and categories based on information from your Money file.</p>
<p>You can also make temporary adjustments to your budget, rather than simply reviewing monthly and yearly summaries. If you overspend in one budget category, you can reallocate funds from another category or budget period and stay within your total budget. You can customize how you view your budget categories, as a list or as a chart. And, you can exclude specific transactions from your budget while continuing to track the related category.</p>
<p>Finally, you can view your progress in the account register while you're making transactions. Money will display spending thermometers for your budget categories that show your spending limit and how close you are to it. By double-clicking a spending thermometer, you can view its transactions or reallocate funds.</p>
