Free Excel Template For Accounting?

[James[D]]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has a free template for Microsoft Excel to keep accounts with? Ive found a few online myself, but look too complex or poorly designed. Either a link or can PM me.

I know its not ideal way to do book keeping but given the size of my business (small online shop) I cant really justify spending £100+ on proper software like Sage or Quickbooks at the moment!

Many Thanks.

 

[Williams lester]

Have a look at VT Cashbook, this is free and spreadsheet based. http://www.vtsoftware.co.uk/cashbook/index.htm

 

[MyAccountantOnline]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has a free template for Microsoft Excel to keep accounts with? Ive found a few online myself, but look too complex or poorly designed. Either a link or can PM me.

I know its not ideal way to do book keeping but given the size of my business (small online shop) I cant really justify spending £100+ on proper software like Sage or Quickbooks at the moment!

Many Thanks.

As Dave has suggested VT cashbook is great and free.

Just to add though you dont have to spend £100+ on Sage/Quickbooks to get really good software. In addition to VT you may also be interest in looking at these packages -

http://www.solaraccounts.co.uk/offer/MYACC2058

http://www.accountsportal.com/

 

[elaine@cheapaccounting]

our software is free to all clients

 

[Zissou10]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sage-Instan..._1_1?s=software&ie=UTF8&qid=1288107104&sr=1-1

Only £63 once you've claimed the VAT back.

 

[Arc trading]

Hi fellow business people,

We would be interested in the excell sheets too.

Thanks

Arc

 

[David Richards]

Just wondering if anyone has a free template for Microsoft Excel to keep accounts with? Ive found a few online myself, but look too complex or poorly designed. Either a link or can PM me.

I know its not ideal way to do book keeping but given the size of my business (small online shop) I cant really justify spending £100+ on proper software like Sage or Quickbooks at the moment!

Here's the advice I give to everyone in your situation:

There are a number of basic bookeeping applications out there that are free.

A spreadsheet is fine for listing money in and money out, but go beyond that and things can start to get a bit complicated.

Even a simple bookkeeping program helps you keep on top of your cashflow, makes reconciling your bank account easier and over time can give you a really good insight into your business. For example, just being able to easily classify your costs can soon reveal useful things you didn't know.

Investing in a more sophisticated program gives you even more tools to help you with the money side of your business - and can reveal bits of information that can help you grow your business. Of course, working for a software company, you'd expect me to say that. So don't take my word for it, give one of the freebies a go... you might be pleasantly surprised!

Obviously, I'd hope that you choose my product (more than 25,000 downloads to date), but please... choose anything rather than using Excel!

 

[DVWooly]

i prepare hedge fund accounts using excel. They are complicated as hell but its the best and only way to produce them.

To use excel as a place to do bookkeeping is very messy though. You need to upload it into some sort of package which creates the database from which you can extract the data

 

[Accounting Marketer]

James

VT is truly superb in my opinion. I've got experience with sage, quickbooks and a few others and this beats all of them hands down for simplicity

We use the VT Final accounts for all our accounts production and I have no hesitation in recommending the bookkeeping package (VT Transaction +) to any of my cleints that ask about software

And it's also great value for money - about £100 per year

Warmly

Jan