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<p>What are you having trouble with?</p>
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<tease>I don't understand the amounts that Money used to pre-fill my budget.</tease>
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<p>Autobudget estimates budget amounts for your income and expenses using data from your Money file. For example, Autobudget takes all the transactions you have categorized as Automobile: Gas and calculates what you usually spend on gas every month. You can edit the amounts or remove the categories Autobugdet enters. If you want, you can also start over with a budget that includes only your recurring transactions and default budget categories. <alink type="prcdr" href="Createabudgetinmoney.xml"/>.</p>
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<tease>Money says that my expenses exceed my income.</tease>
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<p>If you're surprised at this feedback, you may want to go back and carefully review what you've entered in your budget. Look especially at the frequency with which your expenses occur. If you have a monthly expense that accidentally has been entered as a weekly expense, your budget may not balance.</p>
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<tease>I can't delete some budget items.</tease>
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<p>Some of the information in the budget comes from other places in Money. For example, if you have a scheduled debt payment because of your debt reduction plan, you will not be able to delete that expense from your budget. To change it, go to the Debt Reduction Planner. If you have scheduled bills, you can remove them from your budget (by removing the associated category), but you can only delete them from your Money file in the Accounts & Bills area. You also must delete transfers and loan payments in the Accounts & Bills area.</p>
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<tease>The amounts that Autobudget entered don't look accurate.</tease>
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<p>Autobudget depends partially on the recurring bills and deposits you create in Money. It may be that your budget categories and amounts look strange because there are bills you no longer use in the Bills & Deposits area, or bills with amounts that are no longer accurate.</p>
<p>Autobudget also depends on the categories you assign to your transactions. If you don't categorize some transactions, Autobudget ignores them. Or, if you categorize several types of transactions under a general category like Other or Miscellaneous, Autobudget will be unable to accurately reflect where that money goes or help you set spending limits for it. You can create new budget categories and groups so that your budget reflects your actual finances. But remember that if you want to stick to your budget, you will need to assign detailed categories.</p>
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<tease>I get different looking dialog boxes when I edit budget items.</tease>
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<p>The dialog box you see depends on what kind of item you want to edit. Money's budget includes groups, categories, and bills. If you edit a bill, you will get the same dialog box you would see if you edited a bill in the Accounts & Bills area. If you edit a category or group, you will see specialized dialog boxes for the budget.</p>
