35+ Free Financial Resources for Small Business Owners

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 range 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.

Tools

1. Business planning calculators for evaluating different parts of your business.
2. Calculate business worth from CNN Money.
3. Cash flow calculator from Entrepreneur.
4. Dictionary of Small Business.
5. Social Security Online: Process employee W-2s without any extra software.
6. SmartBiz Tools and Calculators.
7. Calculate your company's true profit from CNN Money.

Resources

1. AllBusiness offers business advice by industry, topic, and location.
2. BizMiner has resources for understanding trends in your industry.
3. Business Know-How: Ideas, advice, and resources.
4. Business News Daily is a resource for busy small business owners and their employees.
5. BusinessWeek Small Business section.
6. Fox Small Business Center includes articles, tips and resources for starting a business, financing, marketing, sales and legal.
7. Inc.com Finance & Capital section.
8. Intuit small business blog from the company that produces QuickBooks.
9. IRS Small Business and Self-Employed One-Stop Resource includes news, expenses, taxes, training videos.
10. IRS small business resources links to other government websites.
11. Look up local SBA resources.
12. Mainstreet.com small business section.
13. New York Public Library Small Business Resource Center: Business manual, forms, forums, articles, videos, and podcasts.
14. NFIB provides resources and how tos for small businesses.
15. SBA Managing a Business resources.
16. SBA Newsletters and Publications.
17. Social Media Examiner insights into using social media for business.
18. Smallbiztechnology, tech insight and news.
19. Small Business Trends, news, tips and advice for small businesses.
20. SmartBiz Accounting resources.
21. Smart Brief business publications covering a diversity of business topics.
22. Wall Street Journal Small Business section covers financing, technology, franchising, and building awareness.
23. Yahoo Small Business Advisor ideas and advice for growing business.