Excel spreadsheets for small business

THE SMALL BUSINESS ACCOUNTING PACKAGE from zantu.com

Easy to use package of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets built for small businesses accounting

Ready to use free Excel templates for small business bookkeeping containing a set of spreadsheets; After entering the weekly details of receipts and payment, The calculations and analyses will be automatically generated such as:

Cash-flow statements by week and year

The Balance Sheet

The Profit and Loss Account

Sales and Stock summaries

Drawing summary

Fixed Assets Register

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How to select the right accounting software for your business?

A good article from the site of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) who treat the problem of choosing the right accounting software.
It contents good advices on how to select the accounting software that match the needs of your business or comapny and things to consider when making your choice as cost and steps to follow; It provide also a list of the most important accounting software:

A Strategy for Finding the Right Accounting Software
By Randolph P.Johnston

Free Excel training guide for business users

MBA's Guide to Microsoft Excel free ebook by Stephen L. Nelson
Free guide for business users of Excel, explain how to use Excel as a business calculation tool, include:
Tutorials on Excel
Excel topics for business users
Financial and business calculations in Excel
Statistics and data analysis, and using the Small Business Finance Manager
Use Excel to build business workbooks
Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: A Quick Primer on Using Excel
Chapter 3: A Quick Primer on Charting
Chapter 4: Statistical Analysis using Excel
Chapter 5: Financial Calculations using Excel
Chapter 6: Excel-based Business Modeling
Chapter 7: Sharing Excel Workbooks
Chapter 8: PivotTables and PivotCharts
Chapter 9: Small Business Financial Manager
Chapter 10: Building a Business Planning Workbook
Chapter 11: Building a Profit Volume and Break-even Analysis Workbook
Chapter 12: Forecasting Sales and Cost of Sales
Chapter 13: Building a Capital Budgeting Workbook
Chapter 14: Building Amortization Schedules
Chapter 15: Building Asset Depreciation Schedules
Starter Workbooks zip file working examples for chap 10 through 15

Free Accounting package for small business

Headway Millennium Accounting Package
by Stream Line SA
Headway Millennium Accounting Package is a free accounting software designed for small businesses, but it can also be used by financial companies and indviduals. The basic version is free of charge.

What you can do with this basic accounting software :
ACCOUNTING ENTRIES
- Standard accounting entries
- Recurrent accounting entries
- On line updating of the chart of accounts for new accounts
- Automatic calculation in the currency of the ledger of
amounts in foreign currencies
BASIC TABLES
- Intermediate closing periods
- Table of currencies and or countries
- Chart of accounts
- Balance sheet
- Class of accounts
EXCHANGE RATES
- Up-dating of exchange rates for each currency by
intermediate closing period
- Automatic computation of exchange differences
TABLE OF VAT (AND OR GST) RATES
- Automatic calculation of the VAT/GST during recording of
accounting entries
- Rates can be defined for VAT/GST either included (TTC)or
(HT)excluded both for purchase or sale
CLOSING OF A LEDGER
- Automatic carry forward of balances from previous to new
fiscal year
- Final closing of a general ledger
- If and when the ledgers of two fiscal years are open,
possibility to record accounting entries in both ledgers
with automatic recalculation of balances of next ledger
LIBRARY
- Storage of unlimited number of balance sheets and or charts
of accounts
- Table of currencies and or countries
- List of companies
- Delete companies
- Delete ledgers
- Save of data
- Recuperation of data
PRINTING OPTIONS:
- Visualization before printing
- Export to Microsoft Excel or Word® (Windows® 2000 minimum)
- All prints can be printed for one or more or all intermediate closing periods
This software is Multi-lingual and is available for 50 languages.

Download for free the basic version

Microsoft offer Small Business Accounting Software

A pre-release beta version of Microsoft Office Accounting, formerly called Small Business Accounting, is now available for free download on Microsoft's website. The latest version offers new features designed to help small companies do business on the Web.
Like its previous version, the beta software offers accounting tools to manage and track inventory, print checks, pay bills, and create invoices. However, the beta version has added tools that integrate the software with eBay, PayPal, and Equifax.
The software facilitates eBay sales by allowing business owners to select products from their inventories, list items for sale, and view the status of listings from within the accounting application. Online shopkeepers can also download the results of sales transactions and related fees directly from eBay into the software.

Because the software can be configured to work with PayPal business accounts, businesses can use online invoicing and accept payment via e-mail or direct credit-card payments. In addition, users can monitor the credit-worthiness of their customers and vendors using Equifax from within the accounting software.

The new version of Office Accounting also supports multi-currency accounting and allows users to customize the layout and labels on accounting forms.

Free Answering Service Debuts

Small businesses can appear larger and more established — at least on the phone — with CallButler, a new software application that provides a professional-sounding, feature-rich answering service.

CallButler uses a desktop PC and broadband Internet connection to answer and route telephone calls. The free downloadable software, which was released in beta on Sunday, facilitates assignment and management of an unlimited number of phone extensions and voicemail boxes.

Like a regular answering machine, CallButler takes messages from callers, but it can also send copies of phone messages via e-mail, so messages can be listened to remotely. In addition, CallButler can automatically transfer a caller to an alternate telephone number such as a cell phone. It can be programmed to transfer a caller to multiple phones until the call is answered.
Small businesses can also use CallButler to answer common caller questions, about topics such as store hours or specials, with recorded messages.

CallButler runs on Windows and does not require additional equipment or telephone lines, although it does require users to have an account with an Internet telephone provider or VoIP provider in order to answer public telephone calls. The company claims the software can be installed in less than 10 minutes. A Web-based version that does not require a download will be offered later this year.

When CallButler leaves beta phase, the company plans to offer various editions ranging from free to around $300.

A One-Stop Shop for Documents

If you've ever run from department to department, seeking approval for documents or presentations, a free Web service launched on Wednesday may save you some time.

Approver.com, created by former Yahoo executive Jeffrey McManus, enables a group of people to collaborate and comment on company-wide documents. Users upload their documents to the site, then invite friends or colleagues to provide feedback. Only people invited to review a document can view it. Authorized reviewers can either approve the document or post a comment about it.

By registering for a free account, users can review and approve other peoples' documents and create one document at a time to be reviewed by up to five colleagues. An Approver.com paid account costs $5.95 a month or $39.95 a year and allows a user to create and share up to 50 documents at a time to be reviewed by up to 50 people. With the paid account, users can share images, Microsoft Office spreadsheets, documents and slide presentations. The paid account also entitles users to receive alerts when documents are approved or reviewed.