Excel Templates Looking for some good free Excel Spreadsheet Business Templates ? Unfortunately, most of the good templates I've run across are not free. Most of the free templates offered are simple spreadsheets without any complex calculations used and can easily be created on your own. I did however find a few sites offering free templates that are worth a visit. JaxWorks Provides all kinds of financial templates and even provides some excellent tutorials on Excel. A site well worth your time to visit. Excel Templates An often used and needed template is the Excel Business Plan Template Tutorials Free charts to cut & paste If you're looking for an Excel Financial Planning template, I suggest you try the PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) excel financial template. It's free and PWC is a prestigious world wide public accounting firm. You will need to provide them some general information about yourself or your company to download the template. Nothing that you should be concerned about and they do respect your privacy. Financial Template Corporate Training Partners doesn't offer many, but the ones they do are excellent templates to help accomplish the following tasks: Monthly Sales Forecast that reflect trends and seasonabilty of sales-my favorite Price Analysis that provides estimates that aid in maximizing gross revenue and margins Statistical Tool that charts a time series of numbers and calculates and charts the average and +/- 3 standard deviations Net Present Value calculation that incorporates the time value of money in its calculation Matt H Evans, CPA Provides a variety of financial templates that aid in accomplishing many different types of business tasks. Innovateurs Free Business Plan Templates & Financial Plan Models Business Tools Organization Provides an excellent ratio analysis spreadsheet, mini-tutorial, and explanations of how to calculate ratios and what they mean. Also has a pretty good break-even analysis tool. Mortgage-Investment Excellent Mortgage and Other Templates OzGrid-Excel Information An excellent Excel site with free and pay for services is Ozgrid. OzGrid's main business focus is Microsoft Excel ® and all aspects of it. Their site has over 4000 pages (and growing) of information on Excel. Microsoft Templates Microsoft also provides free business templates that you might want to check out. SCORE Score provides quite a few free templates that might just be what you're looking for. Financial Template If you're looking for an Excel Financial Planning template, I suggest you try the PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) excel financial template. It's free and PWC is a prestigious world wide public accounting firm. You will need to provide them some general information about yourself or your company to download the template. Nothing that you should be concerned about and they do respect your privacy. PlanWare is an excellent site that provides a free Business Plan Guide & Template-Free-Plan and a 6 month Business Financial Planner-Exl-Plan and 6 month Cash Forecast-Cash Planner. Free-Plan is a Microsoft Word document and Exl-Plan and Cash-Plan are a Microsoft Excel templates. Their site also has some excllent checklists and guides and free on-line business tools. Bean Counter's Cash Forecasting Workbook Need help managing your cash ? For many small businesses, a good spreadsheet template is a good place to start. The template normally has an input area(s) where you enter basic financial information about your business usually from your financial statements. You also enter information such as your selling terms (credit terms to your customers) and payment terms to your suppliers. After entering your basic financial information, the spreadsheet performs the necessary calculations and provides you with an estimated cash forecast (projection). An added benefit, is that you can play what if with this business tool by changing your assumptions and see the results in a new calculated cash forecast. This is not a bad solution for those comfortable with using a spreadsheet program such as Excel. For those individuals and businesses that feel more comfortable using a spreadsheet, I have developed just the solution for you - my Bean Counter Cash Forecasting Workbook. This Excel Template is designed to be simple, yet powerful enough to perform the calculations that make the job of preparing a cash forecast hassle free. See for yourself what Bean Counter's Cash Forecasting Workbook looks like and provides. Sample of Bean Counter's Cash Forecasting Workbook Note: This may take a little while to load and display on your computer. After the workbook displays click the links that appear on the bottom of the pages to see the different sections that make up the contents of my workbook. If this is the right solution for your cash forecasting needs you can get it for free compliments of Bean Counter. BC's Free Excel Cash Forecast Template Need help Understanding how to use Excel ? Try out my recommended free Excel Tutorials. Free Excel Tutorials