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Balance sheets

Build a free balance sheet online to see clear business financial summaries in Microsoft Excel.

Monitor business finances with customized balance sheet templates

Customizable balance sheet templates to reflect your company’s accounts. With easy-to-use examples, each includes tailored formulas for instant budget calculations and required formatting.

Save time with a balance sheet template

Don’t spend hours creating a complicated balance sheet from scratch. Get ahead by customizing an Excel balance sheet templates with your business financials. Save time with templates that automatically include accountancy formulas to calculate total assets and liabilities.

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View financial snapshots

Add up assets and liabilities to see an overview of your company’s financials. Measure company stability against business targets while tracking these changes in a balance sheet over periods of time to assist with future performance projections and forecasting.

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Receive more insights with Copilot

Ask Microsoft Copilot in Excel to generate graphs and charts to visualize year-over-year financial performance linked to data. Let Copilot analyze data for future trends and forecasting or create new formula columns for further data-based insights.

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Create a new balance sheet with AI

Build a simple balance sheet quickly using AI even without a template with Copilot in Excel. Organize various account balances into assets and liabilities and follow instructions from Copilot to insert formulas and balance accounts.

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Reduce human errors with built-in formulas

Add up total assets, liabilities, and equity with calculated formulas in Excel. Reduce human error and ensure account totals are always up to date and accurate. When you change an amount in a source cell, the rest of the workbook updates automatically.

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Collaborate with stakeholders online

Invite anyone by email to view and edit a balance sheet in real time with easy to apply controls. When you’re ready, quickly and easily share balance sheets with financial partners for review and feedback as a spreadsheet file or through shareable OneDrive links. 

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Model the outcome of potential business decisions

See how different financial decisions like adding more debt or buying new inventory could change your company’s balance sheet. Easily duplicate your current balance sheet to create alternate business scenarios for gauging the potential impacts on financial performance.

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Flexible balance sheets for work

  • Business owners and CFOs: analyzing financial health.

  • Lenders: assessing repayment ability for a loan application.

  • Entrepreneurs and MBA students: creating business plans.

  • Companies: providing transparency to investors and board members.

  • Financial teams: keeping compliance with regular reports.

Visual representations of balance sheet use cases including tracking expenses, managing cash flow, and financial planning.

How to build a balance sheet in Excel

  1. Choose a balance sheet template as a starting point  

  2. Add or subtract rows in the assets, liabilities, and equity tables to reflect your accounts  

  3. Enter balances for all accounts on corresponding rows  

  4. View the summary table to verify total assets equals total liabilities and equity  

  5. Add columns to track balance sheets at different points in time 

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Frequently asked questions

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