Templates Included With Mac Office Bookshelf/Business Bundle |
Q162529
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Office for the Macintosh, version 4.2.1b
SUMMARY
Microsoft Office for the Macintosh, version 4.2.1b on CD, ships with over 40 templates and files specifically designed for owners of small businesses. These templates are very similar to the templates included with the Microsoft Office for Windows 95 Small Business Pack, and have been modified to function on the Macintosh.
MORE INFORMATION
The templates and files included on disc 2 of the Microsoft Office for the Macintosh, version 4.2lb, Bookshelf Business Tools bundle fall into six categories: Financial, Management, Marketing, Operations, Planning, and Sales. After the "Install Bookshelf and Tools" installer on disc 2 is run, the business templates and other files are installed in subfolders in the "Business Tools and Templates: Small Business Templates" folder on your hard disk. The following tables list the subfolders and the templates they contain. Financial Folder
Name Template or file Office Program --------------------------------------------------------------- Accounts Payable Template Microsoft Excel Accounts Receivable Template Microsoft Excel Balance Sheet Template Microsoft Excel Expense Report Template Microsoft Excel Financial Calculator Template Microsoft Excel Income Statement Template Microsoft Excel Investment Record Template Microsoft Excel Statement of Net Worth Template Microsoft Excel
Management Folder
Name Template or file Office Program --------------------------------------------------------------- Business Letterhead Template Microsoft Word Business Memo Template Microsoft Word Business Report Template Microsoft Word Statistics Calculator Template Microsoft Excel
Marketing Folder
Name Template or file Office Program -------------------------------------------------------------------- Business Brochure Template Microsoft Word Business Newsletter Template Microsoft Word Business Press Release Template Microsoft Word Direct Marketing Analysis Template Microsoft Excel French Motif Template Microsoft PowerPoint Mini-Blinds Template Microsoft PowerPoint Red Dots with Teal and Black Template Microsoft PowerPoint Shout Template Microsoft PowerPoint Squares Template Microsoft PowerPoint
Operations Folder
Name Template or file Office Program --------------------------------------------------------------- Account Statement Template Microsoft Excel Business Invoice Template Microsoft Excel Employee Timesheet Template Microsoft Excel Equipment Inventory Template Microsoft Excel Purchase Requisition Template Microsoft Excel Request for Quotation Template Microsoft Excel Business Fax Cover Template Microsoft Word
Planning Folder
Name Template or file Office Program ------------------------------------------------------------------- 5-Year Projection Template Microsoft Excel Business Plan Workbook File Microsoft Excel Cash Flow Projection Template Microsoft Excel Expense Budget Template Microsoft Excel Financial Comparison Template Microsoft Excel Leasing Wizard Template Microsoft Excel Pro Forma Income Statement Template Microsoft Excel Business Plan Document File Microsoft Word Business Plan Presentation Template Microsoft PowerPoint Midnight Blue Template Microsoft PowerPoint
NOTE: There is a "Plan Document Backups" folder in the Planning folder that contains backup copies of the Business Plan Workbook and the Business Plan Document files.
Sales Folder
Name Template or file Office Program ------------------------------------------------------------------- Product Sales Goals Template Microsoft Excel Product Sales Projections Template Microsoft Excel Services Estimate Template Microsoft Excel Estimate Template Microsoft Word Product Fact Sheet Template Microsoft Word
The following list provides a brief description of each of the files and templates included with the Small Business Templates.
Financial
- Accounts Payable
Manage outstanding amounts that the company owes to vendors. You can also determine the age of an account to see which accounts have been outstanding the longest.
- Accounts Receivable
Manage outstanding credit (determine which companies owe the business money). You can also determine the age of an account to see which accounts have been outstanding the longest.
- Balance Sheet
Determine the company's assets, liabilities, and equity using this template based on the standard accounting statement.
- Expense Report
Template designed to help employees quickly and easily complete and submit expense reports.
- Financial Calculator
A calculator developed within Microsoft Excel to help businesses evaluate investment and loan scenarios, build amortization tables, and more.
- Income Statement
A form provided to help businesses analyze and report revenues and expenses over a specified period of time. Based on the standard accounting statement.
- Investment Record
Developed to help businesses keep track and analyze all of its investments and the returns gained from those investments.
- Statement of Net Worth
An itemized form for tracking all assets and liabilities. Similar to a balance sheet but with greater detail.
Management
- Business Letterhead
A professionally designed letterhead template that you can customize for your correspondence.
- Business Memo
A professionally designed memo template that you can customize for your internal correspondence.
- Business Report
A detailed template that you can use to develop sales reports, quarterly reports, and so forth.
- Statistics Calculator
A calculator developed within Microsoft Excel to help you perform statistical analysis on a range of data such as sales, units, and so forth.
Marketing
- Business Brochure
A professionally designed brochure template that you can customize and use to create brochures for customers.
- Business Newsletter
A professionally designed newsletter template that you can customize and use to create newsletters for customers or employees.
- Business Press Release
A template based on a standard press release format that you can use to complete and submit press releases to the press.
- Direct Marketing Analysis
A tool developed to help you quickly and easily evaluate various direct marketing proposals in terms of effectiveness relative to cost.
Operations
- Account Statement
Similar to a bank statement but prepared so that you can quickly and easily report the status of an account to a supplier, vendor, customer, or other business associate. Includes balance, payment history, order history, and so forth.
- Business Fax Cover
A professionally designed fax cover sheet template that you can customize and use as a cover sheet for faxes.
- Business Invoice
A form designed to help you quickly create quality invoices to send to customers to request payment.
- Employee Timesheet
A form that employees can use to submit time worked to the business. Helps ensure that all timesheets received are consistent and contain the appropriate information.
- Equipment Inventory
A form designed to help businesses record equipment on hand.
- Purchase Requisition
Customizable order form the business can use to order materials and other items from suppliers and vendors.
- Request for Quotation
A form that you can use to request quotations for services or goods to be provided by suppliers.
Planning
Business Plan Workbook.
This workbook, along with the Business Plan Document, is the most complete tool in the collection of tools and templates. A detailed Microsoft Excel spreadsheet provides a comprehensive set of forms and sheets to help businesses plan for the future. Each sheet is linked to the next, so that data entered in one sheet facilitates completion and analysis on the next. The workbook includes the following elements:Table of Financial Assumptions
Quarterly Sales Forecast for Year 1
5 Year Total Market Forecast
Start-up Costs and Capitalization
5 Year Pro forma Income Statement
5 Year Pro forma Balance Sheet
Break-even analysis
Business Ratios
- Business Plan Document
An extensive Microsoft Word document created to leverage the analysis completed in the Business Plan Workbook to help you acquire financing through a comprehensive business plan. The Business Plan Document contains OfficeLinks to the Business Plan Workbook so that the forecasts and the charts created in the workbook automatically appear in the document to create a complete, high-quality plan for the business. - Business Plan Presentation
A presentation created in Microsoft PowerPoint to help you develop presentations to give to lenders, potential investors, employees, and customers to communicate the goals and plans of your business. - 5-Year Projection
Provides a form to forecast revenue, income, cash needs, assets, and liabilities for five years. Use this template to determine the financial impacts of growth and growth strategies on a small business. - Cash Flow Projection
A detailed tool for determining the monthly cash required to run a business based on growth projections. Perfect for planning when and how much a business will need to borrow from the bank to meet day-to- day operations. - Expense Budget
A template designed to help you budget for all expenses and then evaluate actual expenditures relative to the budget. - Financial Comparison
A form developed to help you compare your operations and performance to those of other companies in the same industry. - Leasing Wizard
A tool developed to help you evaluate various leasing options to determine that is best financially. - Pro Forma Income Statement
A template used to project revenues, expenses and net income for the purposes of planning and evaluation.
Sales
- Estimate
A Word template you can use to quickly provide estimates to customers.
- Product Fact Sheet
A template designed to help you create high-quality product fact sheets that businesses can give to customers, investors, lenders, and so forth.
- Product Sales Goals
A Microsoft Excel workbook you can use to establish quantitative sales goals for given products and services.
- Product Sales Projections
A Microsoft Excel workbook you can use to forecast sales for given products and services.
- Services Estimate
Similar to the estimate form, but developed for service businesses to provide service estimates to customers.
For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q162421 Description of the Mac Office/Bookshelf/Business Tools Bundle
Additional query words: 4.21b mac book shelf
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Last Reviewed: November 3, 2000 |
