Exl-Plan Free 2.72

Exl-Plan Free 2.72 is an Excel-based business financial planner for "first-cut" or high-level projections. Based on your assumptions, Exl-Plan generates fully-integrated annual projections (income statements, cashflows, balances sheets etc.) for two years ahead using either UK/ International or US/ Canadian accounting conventions. It requires Excel (releases 5, 7, 8, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007) running on Windows (95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista). It includes a free 150-page Business Plan Guide and Word-based Template. Check the advantages of using Exl-Plan instead of building your own spreadsheet planner.
Exl-Plan Free is the most basic version in the Exl-Plan range of nine planners offering different levels of detail and complexity
Exl-Plan Free is freeware and requires no payment for ongoing use. It is identical in all key respects to Exl-Plan Basic (US$29) except that it generates projections for just two years instead of five with Basic. 

Exl-Plan Free incorporates extensive formulae and preprogrammed menus and buttons. You only need a very basic knowledge of Excel to prepare highly professional and presentable projections. Advanced Excel users can utilize their expertise to enhance and expand Exl-Plan to meet their particular needs.
Exl-Plan Free is very suitable for generating high-level financial projections for business and cashflow planning for both smaller and larger businesses. It is also an ideal introduction to financial modeling for first-time planners and to the other more extensive and powerful planners within the Exl-Plan range. Here's what Tucows said about Exl-Plan Free (awarded 4 Cows):
This program is great for budgeting, cash flow forecasting, and generating check balance reports. Create a variety of different charts and graphs for managing monthly sales and income. Exl-Plan Free works well for both new and established businesses. Whether you have a financial background or not, creating plans is a breeze with Exl-Plan Free.
The Exl-Plan range also includes Basic, Micro, Lite, Pro, Super, Super Plus, Ultra and Ultra Plus versions which are much more powerful than Free and contain many additional features and facilities.

Free is identical to Basic except that it projects for two years instead of for five. Distributed as free software.

Benefits:

1. It saves substantial time and money. With Exl-Plan, you only need to familiarize yourself with its range of variable and reports before you start entering assumptions and planning.
2. Exl-Plan is well-tested, robust, powerful and expandable. It is also clearly documented and supported.
3. Exl-Plan is error-free and incorporates extensive error trapping to help prevent users introducing errors when using Exl-Plan. For examples of errors that can arise in spreadsheets, have a look at this listing of spreadsheet mistakes.
4. You don't have to be a financial whizz-kid or spreadsheet rocket scientist to make detailed projections and to explore complex scenarios with Exl-Plan.
5. Building and testing a comparable model to Exl-Plan could require hundreds (thousands?) of hours of spreadsheet programming, worksheet formatting and formulae entry. In contrast, you can be up-and-running with Exl-Plan in less than a hour.
6. If you already have a spreadsheet or financial background, you can use this expertise to expand and tailor Exl-Plan to handle special factors or to get into greater detail.

Major Features:

1. Facilities for inserting constant and varying annual assumptions.
2. Selective what-if, or sensitivity analysis, covering the five years.
3. Book-marking facility to allow a user mark a location within a worksheet and to return quickly to it.
4. Multiple safeguards to protect formulae etc. and help prevent accidental changes being made to worksheets.
5. Comprehensive online help.
6. Comprehensive set of tailored toolbar buttons.
7. Error trapping to advise when data entry or calculation errors arise.
8. Full access to worksheets and formulae to facilitate customization and expansion.

Enhancements: Major changes and improvements.

Requirements:

• Microsoft Excel (5, 7, 8, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007)
• Windows (95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista).