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Monthly Budget$ Master comes in three configurations: two that come on cassette and one that comes on disk. The disk version and one of the cassette versions are written in Extended BASIC. The second cassette version operates out of console BASIC. This review is based on the cassette-based Extended BASIC version. It should be noted at this point that the program designers, Steven and Susan Albert, warn that the cassette version cannot be transferred to disk without major modifications by the user. Purchasers of the BASIC or cassette versions may trade for an upgrade at a cost of $5.

As the title suggests, this program is designed to track monthly expenses. It does this through the use of 31 predefined categories and as many as 14 user-defined categories. Each predefined category may have more than one entry, though only the total is recorded. Each month may included up to 75 entries. For example, you may enter, say, four weeks of grocery bills but only a cumulative amount will appear in the printout or on the screen display. However, the four entries would constitute four of