35+ Free Financial Resources for Small Business Owners

October 13, 2008 | Print this Page.

You can find scores of templates, web sites, applications, and resources to help you with things finance. The internet offers a wonderful place to find all of this... but the problem comes in weeding out the good from the bad.

Templates

  1. Business Finance templates from the Business Owner's Toolkit.
  2. Bookkeeping and Accounting documents from .docstoc
  3. Excel templates from Matt H. Evans, CPA, range from valuation models and risk premium to time value and financial charting.
  4. Microsoft provides many free templates for small businesses. They rang from marketing templates like letterheads and brochures to business plans and balance sheets. They work with various Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  5. SCORE provides templates for business plans, 12-month cash flow, 12-month sales forecast to name a few.
  6. Vertex42 Excel list of financial functions and formulas.
  7. WorkZ.com Free forms and Templates Library (requires free registration)

Tools

  1. Business valuation calculator.
  2. Capital needs calculator.
  3. Cash Flow calculator.
  4. Debt consolidation calculator.
  5. Dictionary of Small Business.
  6. Profit margin calculator
  7. SCORE Business Quizzes cover business planning, finance, leadership, and more.
  8. Social Security Online: Process employee W-2s without any extra software.
  9. SmartBiz Tools and Calculators.
  10. Write a Business Plan -- step by step from SBA.

Resources

  1. A-List Blogs for C-Level Execs
  2. AllBusiness offers business advice by industry, topic, and location.
  3. BizMiner: Resources for understanding trends in your industry.
  4. Business.gov has small business guides covering finance, taxes, environment, business law.
  5. Business Know-How: Ideas, advice, and resources.
  6. BusinessWeek Small Business section.
  7. Inc.com Finance & Capital section.
  8. IRS Small Business and Self-Employed One-Stop Resource includes news, expenses, taxes, training videos.
  9. Look up local SBA resources.
  10. New York Public Library Small Business Resource Center: Business manual, forms, forums, articles, videos, and podcasts.
  11. SCORE Small Business Resource Links include associations, nonprofits, business planning, finance, legal, tax, and more.
  12. SBA offers free online courses.
  13. SBA tools include library, resources, audio and video, and forms.
  14. SBA list of services.
  15. SBCA Newsletters and Publications.
  16. SmartBiz Accounting resources.
  17. Top 100 Management and Leadership Blogs
  18. Wall Street Journal Small Business section covers financing, technology, franchising, and building awareness.
  19. Yahoo! Small Business news and resources.

Updated: September 29, 2008

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