Quicken 20004: Retirement Planner: Special Expenses - inflation?

Quicken's retirement planner has a section titled Special Expenses. Here you enter large future expenses and when you expect to pay them. Unfortunately nothing I can find in Quicken Help indicates if I am supposed to enter those expenses in today's dollars (which is what you do in many of the other sections in this planner) or in future dollars (where I do the math, accounting for inflation). I think I am supposed to do the latter, although that seems pretty lame to me. Anyone know for sure if I calculate the future costs or use today's dollars for this?

Thanks.

--brian

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gobrigo
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I can't give you a definitive answer, but my interpretation is that Quicken retirement planner asks you for your estimate of inflation for just the purpose of allowing you to enter amounts in today's dollars. I'm not sure why one small subset of those amounts should be treated differently than the rest.

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John Pollard

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