New Features

Welcome to Microsoft Money Essentials. Money Essentials allows you to get set up quickly and gives you the basic tools needed to organize and manage your personal finances. With Money Essentials, it's easy to:

Create a budget. With Money Essentials, you can create a simple budget for regular expenses and use the Spending Tracker to watch a few budget areas closely.
Balance a checkbook. In the account register, you can make adjustments to the information downloaded from your bank account so that your account is balanced and up to date.
Receive automatic online updates. You can automatically download account information from most banks and brokerages into your Money file, so that all your accounts are combined in one place.
Pay your bills. You can schedule and pay bills automatically right from your Money file.