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The Spending Tracker Application is a Java-based command-line application designed to help users manage and analyze their personal expenses. Users can add expenses, view their current balance, set budget goals for different expense categories, generate expense reports, and save their expenses to a file for future reference.
- Add Expense: Allows users to add new expenses with specified amounts and categories.
- View Balance: Displays the current balance based on the recorded expenses.
- View Expenses: Shows a list of recorded expenses categorized by expense type.
- Set Budget Goal: Enables users to set budget goals for different expense categories.
- Generate Expense Report: Generates a detailed expense report showing expenses by category and their status (under budget or over budget).
- Save Expenses to File: Allows users to save their recorded expenses to a file for future reference.
- Java Development Kit (JDK) installed on your system.
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