29 March 2018

Excel expenses, where to find downloadable templates?

expense excel

Having a good Excel template for expenses is essential for any SME for one simple reason: to monitor and control your expenses. But... where can we find such templates? Are there websites where you can find them? free downloadWhat should we look out for before downloading such tools from the Internet? These are the questions we have asked ourselves and which we answer in detail in today's article. Shall we start?

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Excel on expenses, a control and saving measure

As we told you in the introduction to this article, using a good Excel expense template is important for any company, but vital for SMEs and the self-employed that they should control their budget lines penny by penny. But, furthermore, using an expense spreadsheet is a savings measure as interesting as a measure to control expenditure deviations such as our solution called Corporate Ticket.

In short: choosing a spending Excel is something we must do as soon as possible, but… what should we look out for when choosing the best template for our SME? Especially in the following three points:

  1. Ease of use, This is especially true if we are not familiar with such budgetary control tools.
  2. The reliability of the Excel expense creator. Remember that downloading tools and templates from the Internet can pose a security risk to your business computers.
  3. Its adaptability to the volume of information of your SME, its specific needs, etc.

That said, let's take a look at some of the web sources that allow for download free of charge different Excel templates for expenses.  

4 websites where you can download Excel expense templates

If you type the keywords "Excel expenses" into your favourite internet search engine, you'll find many websites with interesting templates to download. We've done that exercise for you and have chosen the following websites:

Free Excel.com

Interesting web environment offering different documents to download, adapt, and use: invoices, forms, calendars… If you press here you will access three interesting Excel templates for expenses and income, completely free. 

Excel.com spreadsheet

Planilla Excel.com es otra interesante página web para las SMEs and the self-employed who need some help to start using tools for expense and income tracking, mileage logging, company vehicle expenses, VAT returns, etc. Click here to access the Excel template for expenses that they offer free of charge. 

Microsoft Spending Calculator

Everyone knows the different programmes designed by the almighty company Microsoft, but not everyone knows that it also offers the possibility to download different templates for free, which can help us in our daily work. An example?: the so-called “expense calculator”, an Excel expense template that you can download Clicking here.

Google Sheets

The fourth source we consulted in our search for expense spreadsheets is also a well-known figure to all internet users: Google.

Not everyone knows that this powerful search engine also offers interesting IT solutions which can be freely downloaded and used both by individuals, as well as by Self-employed, SMEs, etc. An excellent example can be found in their Excel expense templates, which, although they do not work with the original Microsoft program, are perfectly useful, versatile, and simple to use. Click here to check it. 

And that concludes our selection; now it's your turn to get involved: do you know any other interesting web sources where download Excel expense templatesPlease write a comment noting your address, I'm sure readers of this blog would be interested to read your recommendation.

Edenred Spain

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