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Free finance templates

The working files behind a clean month-end: a close checklist, a 13-week cash flow forecast, a balance sheet reconciliation, and a budget-versus-actual report. Finance workbooks and editable accounting memo templates. Enter your email before downloading.

Technical accounting starter kits

Editable US GAAP memo templates and Excel assessment checklists. Email required to download.

ASC 606: Revenue recognition

Document your contract assessment, performance obligations, pricing, allocation, recognition, and review.

The Word file provides a memo outline. The Excel file tracks evidence and conclusions, with a fictional example row and status dropdowns.

ASC 842: Lease accounting

Organize your lessee assessment, lease terms, classification, measurement evidence, and review.

The Word file provides a memo outline. The Excel file tracks evidence and conclusions, with a fictional example row and status dropdowns.

US GAAP templates for professional review; not IFRS or ASPE templates. The checklists organize your analysis and do not calculate accounting amounts or determine conclusions. Verify current Codification requirements before use. Sources and review prompts are included in each file.

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Four templates you can use this month

Every sheet has a legend telling you which cells to fill, one worked example row, and live formulas — change an input and the totals move.

Month-End Close Checklist

Every task in a normal close, sequenced by business day, with owner, reviewer and sign-off columns. The summary block counts your completion rate as you tick items off.

  • 18 pre-filled close tasks
  • Status dropdown and progress percentage
  • Owner and reviewer sign-off
  • Room for 55 tasks
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13-Week Cash Flow Forecast

The rolling forecast most owner-managed businesses are missing. Enter your opening balance once; each week's closing balance carries forward automatically.

  • 4 receipt and 8 disbursement lines
  • Closing balance carries week to week
  • Minimum-cash covenant tracker
  • Counts weeks below your floor
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Balance Sheet Reconciliation

GL against supporting schedule, account by account. Set a dollar tolerance and the sheet flags anything outside it as INVESTIGATE.

  • 50 account rows
  • Automatic difference calculation
  • Tolerance flag you control
  • Prepared-by and reviewed-by columns
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Budget vs Actual Variance Report

A P&L variance report with a materiality threshold. Anything above it is flagged for written commentary, which is what turns a variance into a decision.

  • Gross profit and operating income calculated
  • Variance in dollars and percent
  • Materiality threshold you set
  • Commentary column per line
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How to use them

A template is a starting point, not a finance function

These will tighten a close and give you a cash forecast you can take to a bank. What they cannot do is tell you whether the numbers going into them are right.

If you fill one in and the balance sheet does not reconcile, or the forecast says something you did not expect, that is usually worth a conversation.

  • Yellow cells are yours to fill
  • Blue text means a hardcoded input
  • Black text means a formula — leave it alone
  • Every sheet has one example row
  • Opens in Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice
  • No macros or add-ins; email required to download

These templates are provided as-is for general use and are not accounting, tax or audit advice. Review the output against your own records before relying on it.

Filled one in and it did not balance?

That is the useful outcome. A finance review will tell you why — and what it costs to fix.