Category: Spreadsheet. Topic: Business plan spreadsheet template excel. Author: Cayle Becker. Posted: Fri, Nov 16th 2018 03:54 AM. Format: jpg/jpeg. Sales accounting for a small business accounting purposes can be either a manual list of the sales invoices or by using a spreadsheet package a list can be made on a bookkeeping spreadsheet. Using a spreadsheet for the bookkeeping has advantages as simple formula can be used to add up the column totals.

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The essential information to enter for a sales invoice would be the date of the sale, name of the customer, sales invoice number if applicable and optional a brief description of the item sold. In the next column would be the total sales invoice amount. If items like value added tax are required to be accounted for then an additional column would be required to accommodate the vat or sales tax accounting.

As noted yesterday in, I'm presenting the spreadsheet I used to track my weight loss progress. Before digging into it, I'd like to point out that this isn't terribly fancy. It met my needs and did what I wanted. But I'm no Excel whiz, so there's a really good chance that you could make this prettier, more useful, and somehow better than I can. Overview The spreadsheet has two worksheets, selectable via the tabs at the bottom. One is labeled Calories and the other is Weight.

Both worksheets also contain charts that provide a visual summary of the data collected. In both case, there are two lines on each chart. The blue line represents the data you recorded: morning weight or total calories for the day. The pink line is the one we pay attention to. It is the 5 day moving average for the data we're recording. By using the 5 day moving average, we smooth out the daily fluctuations in weight and the variations in calorie consumption. This is very important.

Using the 5 day moving average helps to factor out the daily ups and downs that might otherwise discourage you into thinking that it's not working. The Weight Page The weight page is where you record whatever the scale tells you each morning without judging your progress.

This is scientific data collection. Don't let it affect your mood for the day! It's just a number. As you can see in the thumbnail above or in the, there are 5 columns of data on the left side of the page: date, weight, average, change, and total loss. You need only supply the date and weight. All the others populate themselves.

The 'average' is the 5 day moving average, so there's nothing there for the first few days. The 'change' represents the day to day positive or negative change. The 'total loss' column represents how much weight you've lost to date.

There are two other data points above the chart that are not strictly necessary early on. I added them very late in the process once I had a few months of data.

The 'daily average' is intended to provide an idea of how much weight I was losing each day. From that the 'avg daily calorie deficit' cell is derived (to the right). How do I compute that? Since we know how much weight is vanishing each day (on average) and how many calories are in a pound of fat (roughly 3,500), it's a simple matter of division. This comes is useful later on. Once you've lost the weight you'd like to, it's safe to start increasing your daily calorie intake. But you need to know how far to go.

Using this data, you'll be able to figure out how many calories you need each day. The Calorie Page Like the weight page, the calorie page has some data collection and a chart. The data collection is a bit more involved since I wanted to record my calorie intake for every meal and snacks. You don't need this level of detail here, but I wanted all the data in one place. All you really need is the dataset that's under the chart: date, calories, and average.

Again, all you really need to do is put in the date and number of calories. The average will be computed for you. There's also an 'average/day' cell off to the right that I found useful later on to see how I was doing overall.

Odds are that you're not going to hit your exact calorie targets every day. By looking at the overall average, you'll know how close you're getting. Some folks might record more quantity information (portion sizes or weights) while others may do less. If you're eating mostly pre-sized packaged foods, it's pretty easy. Otherwise you may be doing some estimation or using a kitchen scale and to figure out what numbers to record. As on the weight chart, the calorie chart has two lines.

The blue simple connects the dots between the daily calorie intake points. The pink line is a 5 day moving average of that data that smoothes out the day to day peaks and valleys, showing you how you're trending (up or down). Download It As promised, I've provided a copy of this spreadsheet for download: (300 over downloads already!) Use at your own risk, modify to suit your needs, and all that stuff.:-) Tomorrow we'll look at goal setting, some of the numbers in my spreadsheet, and factors you might consider in your own weight loss plan. Oh, feel free to use the data in my spreadsheet. But, please, no comments on my particular food choices. Some days I ate whatever was handy rather than planning a 'good' meal. I'm impressed.

Nearly 300 people have already downloaded the spreadsheet. Had I known it'd be popular, I'd have tried to pretty it up a little. Previous installments:. Next installment:. For more recent diet and health tips, see our new blog: Posted by jzawodn at June 06, 2006 07:43 AM. Perhaps you mainly cut out the soda, the doughnuts and all the other junk food (defined as pizza, burgers, lasagna, greasy Chinese, fried potatoes, etc.), and you lost weight. This model works for people like me, who are somewhat lazy, but perhaps good at having the 'that's taboo' mindset.

Just categorically deny the 'bad stuff' and eat whatever you want of the good stuff (consisting mainly of grilled chicken, vegetables, yogurt, low-carb health bars, etc). Mind the not full/not hungry gap, and you're in! I created a surprisingly similar spreadsheet a couple years ago to help lose weight for my wedding (yeah yeah, it's usually the chicks who lose weight for the wedding, but my fiance/wife is a professional athlete so she didn't have that problem. I, on the other hand, had gained 60 pounds within about 4 months when I quit running at the elite collegiate level. When you go from running 75 miles a week for 7 years to doing NOTHING, but keep all your eating and drinking habits the same, you're bound to gain weight!) Anyway, I started counting calories and tracking my weight with a spreadsheet and graph and found my biggest motivation for not eating things I shouldn't was that I didn't want to have to put it in the spreadsheet.

Before, if I wanted to stop at Taco Bell on the way home from work and get a burrito (before still eating a normal dinner) or getting a king size Skittles, I would - but with the spreadsheet I knew I'd have to write it down. Worse, I knew that there was the possibility other people would see the spreadsheet and see the kind of crap I ate (they didn't - no one else cares, it's all in your head. Plus most other people eat like that too, they just don't admit it). I went from 195 to 172 in 3-4 months (142 being my prime 'running weight', and 150-155 probably a good 'fit weight') and looked much better in the wedding than I did in the engagement portraits.

After living in Germany for a year, drinking heavy beer and eating lots of meat, I'm back up to 185, so it's time to start the spreadsheet anew - and thanks to this blog, I think i actually will now! I did almost the exact same thing as you - I started in October of 2005 and just reached my goal the other day - I used a spreadsheet that I kept on a thumb drive and Fitday.com and lost about 80 lbs in 8 months. I can't believe how easy it was (and nobody else seems to believe me either) - it was so nice to feel like I cut through all the fad-dieting BS.

I think the real epiphany for me was learning that 3500 = 1-pound. Having that knowledge made everything about losing weight seem so incredibly simple.

I agree with the dieting plans set into action here. I frequently fluctuate widely with my weight, moving between 225 and 185 with seasonal regularity. My family often accuses me of ballooning out, and telling me that I will become like my cousin (who is about 150 pounds overweight). I have tried tracking calories before, but my lack of motivation stems to even that amount of effort.

I suppose I will have to commit to this level of regularity, so that I can see some real and steady results. I would interested in tracking day to day progress during the transistion phases in my weight. This spreadsheet got me inspired to start losing weight 9 days ago. The problem being that I had it at work and not home, so I had to remember to put info in it later.

My wife was using www.sparkpeople.com to log calories and weight, so I gave that a shot. I now use it to track things as I eat them, however I still put the total calories per day and weight into the spreadsheet since I can control the charts.

I do recommend sparkpeople though, as I've already lost 8 pounds (222 to 214) with my first real goal of 175. Once I get there, I might shoot for 150!

It's free, and if you sign up, put 'lostdog' in as the person who you heard about it from. As you say, you're not an Excel whiz, but there's a few things you can do to make this sheet work better. You can ditch the Average column, the graph can plot a 5-day moving average. Right-click on the series (the blue line), and click 'Add Trendline'. Pick 'Moving Average', and set the period to 5. The trendline will appear, and should overlap the existing pink line. To change the colour, right click the trendline, hit 'Format', then 'Patterns'.

Note the 'Options' tab, and the ather interesting 'Forecast' option. Doesn't work with Moving Average, but does with the opther trendlines, like Linear or Polynomial. Polynomial is fun. You can only have one trendline, but there's nothing stopping you plotting the data twice and add a trendline to the second series. You could add a BMI column and plot that on a secondary axis. The next big thing is to automatically compensate for data being added, you've probably noticed you need to keep adjusting the chart to grab all the data. This is solved by named ranges, specifically what known as a self-expanding range.

(Office 2003 has Lists, a similar thing.) It's a bit long-winded to explain (it's not exactly obvious either), but Google should find a few pages explaining the technique. Changing the chart colours would be nice too, Excel defaults are a bit ugly:). Jeremy, Some very useful inforamtion and I appreciate the time it took to put this together.

I have a question, I recently turned 50 and I have a question on what my average caloric daily intake should be? I'm 6'4 and currently weight 236 pounds. I'm trying to get down to 225. Even though I work out seven days a week with a combined weight and cardo regimen, I have noticed that my metabolism has slowed down and the weight is harder to take off. I plan to record all my daily calorie intake as you suggest. Anything else you can recommend? I eat very little sweets and drink on average less than four beers a week.

Hi Jeremy, I want to thank you for sharing your information with people. I just wondered acrossed your website while googling and found it very informative. I am a 38 year old female that desperately needs to lose weight. My problem is that I work 2 full time jobs from 8:30 am to 5pm and then from 10pm to 6:30am and don't have to much time for sleep let alone time for exercising and eating right. I'm hoping that once I try your method that it will help me to lose the necessary weight that I need to lose.

Any advice that you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Janine. Hi Jeremy, Congratulations on losing the weight and keeping it off. About 3-4 years ago I lost 60 pounds. I found it very interesting that the methods you described where exactly what I followed that allowed me to lose the weight.

I counted calories daily, I got on the scale daily, and I tracked my weight by charting it (not in Excel, although, my husband highly encouraged me to do so.) I never denied myself any specific type of foods. I ate anything I wanted just in moderation. After I lost the weight, I actually lost more than I had targeted, I slipped and fell into bad habits again. Mostly, I stopped tracking my daily calorie intake.

As a result, I have gained back 15 of the 60 pounds in 2 1/2 years. Needless to say, I'm going back to counting calories.:).

I reallly like your blog. But im having a bit of a problem with loosing weight.well actually i was 64 kiloz 3 months ago i watched out what i was eating and lost 2 kilos in 3 weeks after that i started going to a diet dr. I lost in 2 months with him 7 kiloz but it was a chemical diet (Fad diet).right now i weih 55. Its been 2 weeks since i started to watch out for wht i eat.i eat around 1200 calories a day and i havnnt lost a kilo and i alsoo started taking diet pills.im really concerned do you thinkk i should change my diet plan or what.or should i stick to 1200 calories???

Please reply thnx. I greatly enjoyed reading your blog. I like your spreadsheet and I am going to start using it. I have a disabling back injury and I need to lose weight to reduce pain (1 pound off the belly = 2 pounds of leverage off the back). Normally I would just exercise but since times are tough and I can't afford the surgery that would make this possible I am trying to reduce my calories so I lose weight that way. I really appreciate you sharing this with the world.

I'll write back with my experience with it. I know a few things about Excel macro design so I might just have to come up with a script that lets me add foods via a dialog box. I'll share that with you if I get it to work well. Again thanks! A note of thanks to Jeremy!

I was inspired by your blog and advice and then read The Hacker's Diet as well. I started on the diet May 1, 2008 and lost 15 lbs in four months which was my goal.

Today a year later the weight is still off. It really works to count the calories and keep the spreadsheet as it is accurate and really shows what you actually ate, rather than what you think you ate.

Now eating less is habitual and makes me feel great to be at the weight I was in high school. Thanks again! So, I am trying to break into professional skateboarding. Not something easy to do at age 28 in this industry, and being married with an 8 year old. However, I am close ability wise to do this. I have won competitions since I was young.

I'm not expecting to become a household name neccesarily, just get a few more sponsors and get more time to do it instead of my day job. Don't preach to me about the skateboard industry and all that, I know all about its difficulties, but I love a challenge, and I like the reach for a star, get the moon, or even the powerline concept. And I know fully what I'm up against.

I have always ate healthy, but ate too much, and have drank about a gallon of milk every day since I was 17, and love treats at night. The things that are helping me right now, is counting calories, weighing myself, and chewing my food more. I had no idea that chewing food had such an impact. It makes you eat less (which is one of the obvious huge concepts of loosing weight), and it also gives your body more nutrients so it opperates better, which in turn helps you loose weight, and several other benefits. Your digestion begins in your mouth, not in your stomach. Do some reading on this, and it can really help you for a lifetime of better health. The other thing that is helping me, is seriously doing a lot of google 'research' on nutrition and weight, I thought I knew all about healthy food and complex carbs, but there is so much more to learn, as it gives me lots of little things that will compound and make a big difference.

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I was 210 recently, and am now about 195, I want to go to 175, or 185 at least. 10 pounds make a huge difference when your body falls to the ground. You wouldn't believe it. Also the GI diet or way of eating (glycemic index diet) has really helped me get loose the first 10 pounds, But without counting calories as well, it won't do any good. 1 lbs of fat is still 3500 calories.

Don't forget that. Good luck everyone, and don't forget to share knowledge with someone after you learn it, so you can pass on the goods. Jeremy, I saw your spreadsheet and am impressed and hope to use it. There is something that I am interested in due to my own bad habits, and that is a graph to track not only the calories but the amount of bulk that I intake and at what times during the day. I tend to eat really well during the morning and day, but then at night eat very poorly. I thought it would be interesting to see if I could watch the progress of my eating habits during the day, more than just calories. Have you ever had anyone else comment on something like this?

I'm not sure how to modify the spreadsheet but would like permission to try if it's okay with you. Thanks Robert. Hi Jeremy, I used to use the Hacker's Diet as well. I modified my version of the spreadsheet when I became frustrated with how the original formula can lag what's really going on. You can be putting on weight for 4-6 days before it really becomes apparent.

I used to make charts for my friends and family with the formula that I started using that reduces that lag. Since it became really time consuming managing everyones spreadsheets and making web hosted images of their charts, I recently made a google app engine site to do it automatically. For me, the website is easier than my spreadsheets and I really prefer the less lagged formula. In case you're interested, it's free to anyone that would like to use it as well: Cheers, Steve.

I was incredibly inspired by your Weight Loss blog and started my own journey by using your spreadsheet and charts in January 2009. Since then, I've lost 46 pounds (and counting), several clothing sizes (size 16 down to size 6 so far)and have made a few mods to your charts along the way to further encourage me in my trek. This plan really really works. And one of the best pieces of advice: 'Anyone can do it.

I strongly encourage anyone out in Internet-land who's feeling that 'it's time'.go for it. YOU CAN DO IT!!!

Like most people, I am a weight loss enthusiast and I am always on the look out for every alternative application or tool out there. That's how I got to see your spreadsheet following an online search. Amazingly you developed this spreadsheet in 2006 so I would imagine quite a lot of people have downloaded it and found it useful.

I like the fact you have forewarned users to be realistic in their expectations regarding the use of the spreadsheet and their weight loss targets. I particlarly like the 'average/day' cell which really comes in useful as realistically you just CANNOT achieve your calorie targets everyday. For those people who are spreadsheet-phobic, and are weight loss enthusiasts, I have an article my on calorie counting website regarding what to expect from a calorie tracking software if you prefer to go via the automated software route. If Jeremy allows the link to be published, here it is for those who might be interested in reading that piece. Nice application, Jeremy. I just downloaded your spreadsheet and thanks for making it available. I did Weight Watchers before and lost about 50lbs and ended up gaining back 15lbs that i just can't seem to get off.

After much discussion with family it seems that trying something new might be the way to go, so I'm going to give counting calories a whirl. I am curious though how you all are tracking activity. The most obvious would be to use a negative number underneath the meal tab, but would that not throw off the averages and graphs?

I've tried lots of low-fat diets for a couple of years but none of them made me feel satisfied. Although, there are lots of diets,like Atkins diet but it's making me feel weak and unhealthy. But when I tried Medifast Diet,i feel like I'm on the right kind of diet plan. It doesn't make me feel weak.

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