Cash-flow and forecasts
Quick Start Business Plan and Forecasting Tools
The Microsoft bCentral website gives you a Quick Start Business Plan. The free, downloadable, financial forecasting tools provided include: Profit forecast, Cashflow forecast, and Break-even analysis. They suggest that the tools will help to evaluate how financially viable your business idea is, but you’ll need more detailed tools such as Palo Alto’s Business Plan Pro to produce a full business plan.
Free Financial Planning Downloads from the NFEA
The Business Planning section of the National Federation of Enterprise Agency (NFEA) site has two financial spreadsheets available for you to download. There’s one for a profit & loss and one for a cashflow forecast. Don’t forget to download a very handy set of ‘User instructions’.
Free Financial Forecasting Spreadsheets
The Innovateur website provides a range of financial forecasting spreadsheets you can download for free. The financial plan templates will help you produce a full set of financial statements for your business plan without the need for accountancy expertise. The spreadsheet models available to download are; Financial Plan (includes Profit & Loss, Cashflow and Balance Sheet), Quick Break-Even & Pricing Analysis and Full Break-Even analysis.
Cashflow Wizard - Financial Forecasts Models
Cashflow Wizard models are customised Excel models and have all the information you need to produce detailed financial forecasts for your business plan. You can use Cashflow Wizard to produce your Profit and Loss, Balance sheet and Cashflow forecasts and give you over 20 pages of useful charts and management ratios that are ready to print for your business plan. Prices range form £49 for ‘Quick & Dirty’ to £250 for ‘Tailor Made’. You can download a free evaluation model from their website.©2005 Bytestart Ltd
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