We’ve compiled the most useful collection of free profit and loss (P&L) templates for company owners, corporate officers, accountants, and shareholders. Plan and track your organization’s P&L with these free, easy-to-use templates.
Use this simple P&L statement template to calculate your organization’s total revenue compared to your costs and expenses. This fully customizable template prompts you to note your Statement Reporting Period date range, enter revenues (including any deductions for returns and discounts) and cost of goods sold (COGS), to determine your gross profit. Enter your expenses to calculate your total expenses, and to reach your net income figure.
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Download Small Business Profit and Loss Template
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Use this simple template if the categories under income and expenses don’t need to be broken out. This template can be used by service, retail, and B2B organizations. The income section includes space to show income and to deduct the cost of goods sold. The expenses section includes common categories, such as wages and benefits, insurance, and taxes. To use this template for multiple periods (e.g., six months or three years), save a copy for each time period.
Read our article on free small business profit and loss templates to find additional resources and get the most out of your P&L statements.
Download Self-Employed Profit and Loss Template
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Self-employed people and freelancers have unique needs. This self-employed profit and loss template takes these requirements into account by breaking out income by client and by using expense categories that apply to people who work for themselves.
Food service businesses have to keep track of their food and beverage inventories. This template has entries for different types of inventory — including multiple beverage categories, such as draft beer, canned and bottled beer, wine, spirits, and non-alcoholic beer — in both the sales and cost of goods sold sections.
Download Printable Profit and Loss Statement Template
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This one-page P&L template provides a print-friendly solution for those looking to compare their total revenues to their total costs and expenses. Use his straightforward template to determine whether your net income puts you in the red or black, and whether you need to increase your profits by increasing your revenues or reducing expenses.
Use this template to create a P&L statement that tracks your month-by-month and year-to-date (YTD) costs and expenses compared to your revenue. Enter your revenue figures, reductions, expenses, professional services (if applicable), banking and finance information, general business costs, and taxes to determine if your total revenue exceeds your costs and expenses. A month-by-month bar chart indicates your P&L trend by mapping how your gross profit relates to your total expenses over a series of months.
Use this three-month P&L statement template to record your quarterly income and expenses. This template is a perfect solution for companies that need to provide quarterly P&L updates, and includes quarter-by-quarter columns, so that stakeholders can review your organization’s net income in smaller time increments.
Measure your YTD and year-over-year profits and losses by comparing your total revenue to your total expenses and costs. Enter annual revenue, cost of sales, operating expenses, general and administrative costs, and taxes to determine your net income. The template provides annual insight into your P&L, as well as a five-year outlook on your profit and loss trends.
Download Weekly Profit and Loss Template
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Track your week-by-week budgeted revenue versus your actual revenue with this weekly profit and loss template. The template’s detailed Profit and Loss Category sections include revenue, COGS, sales and marketing costs, labor and administrative costs, and earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT). The template’s Balance Sheet Category sections includes cash, inventory, accounts receivable, net fixed assets, accounts payable, long-term debt, and other factors. Week-by-week columns provide you with more detailed insight into your P&L, and whether you need to reduce costs or increase revenue to boost your profits.
Read our article on free small business budget templates to find additional budgeting resources and to improve financial tracking and management.
Download Retail Profit and Loss Template
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Use this visually dynamic retail P&L template to determine your store’s profits or losses over any customized period of time. Enter income and expense figures, and the dashboard-style bar chart will illustrate your gross profit, total expenses, and actual P&L, while comparing your profits versus expenses. Use the detailed Costs of Goods Sold and Taxes sections to further account for every figure related to your P&L, as well as the overall fiscal health of your organization.
Download Construction Profit and Loss Template
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Accurately assess your construction company’s P&L with this comprehensive construction-specific template. The template comes pre-filled with numbered jobs in the Revenue section and construction-specific costs in its Expenses section (e.g., labor, materials, equipment rentals, subcontractors, permits, dump fees, etc.). The template also provides sections for overhead expenses and taxes, so that you can provide owners, construction financial managers, or other stakeholders with an accurate, month-by-month financial picture of your construction company’s total profits.
Download Home Business Profit and Loss Statement Template
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Gain instant insight into your home business’s actual profits and losses with this straightforward template. Enter your desired reporting period, and then add figures to determine your gross revenue, COGS, and gross profit. Then, itemize your home business’s expenses (e.g., rent/mortgage, utilities, office supplies, internet & phone, etc.) to calculate your net income. This single-page template is the perfect fit for home businesses looking to gain quick insight into their financial position.
Download Profit and Loss Chart Template
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Chart your company’s actual profits and losses for any period of time with this visually-rich profit and loss chart template. Enter total revenues and expenses, and the template will automatically calculate your profit/loss ratio. The Trend section of the template charts your gross profit and total expenses, and provides you with your current P&L.
Determine whether your rental revenue is exceeding the cost of maintenance and other rental property-related expenses with this P&L template. List the revenues of each property, additional rental-related revenue (e.g., application fees, reserve parking, storage unit, laundry, etc.), and ongoing expenses (e.g., cleaning, landscaping, utilities, advertising, HOA fees, etc.).
Then, the dashboard-style tally will provide you with your properties’ gross revenue minus total expenses, to give you your net revenue. In the Deposits tab, list all renters’ deposits, and the template will calculate totals in the Total Deposits column. This template enables you to keep track of whether these deposits need to be returned or can be kept as compensation once renters vacate the space.
Individuals and families can use the profit and loss model to track their income against their spending and see if they are spending more or less than they make. This template is customized to include personal expense categories, such as entertainment, food, and household supplies.
This particular template contains many more categories than do the other templates in this article, and allows for a more detailed breakdown of expenses and revenue. The categories are grouped into sections. Enter data on the monthly tab, and see the year-to-date totals on the YTD tab. The monthly tab also has a chart that tracks month-to-month changes in total revenue and total expenses. This template can be used by service, retail, and B2B organizations. To use this template for multiple years, make a copy for each year.
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Businesses use profit and loss (P&L) templates to list revenue and expenses to determine profitability. Use a P&L template to calculate your net income (gross income minus expenses), and whether you need to increase income or reduce costs.
Whether a business sells goods or provides services, a P&L statement can help determine how it has been performing in the past and predict how it may perform in the future. For new businesses, a profit and loss statement will give you a good idea of how things are going. Regardless of the type of business, the first step is to determine the period of time to be evaluated — usually for a quarter but can be a month, a year, or even a week.
P&L statements are typically prepared by owners or accountants, and used by owners, officers, and shareholders to get a feel for the state of the business. A P&L statement can also give potential investors or buyers a quick view of the state of the business.
Individuals can also use a profit and loss template to track their personal expenses and income so they know if they are saving money or spending more than they make.
While P&L templates may vary, most include the following components:
Additionally, some more advanced P&L templates include the following additional components:
Once you’ve completed these steps, you’ll see your net profit or loss.
Additionally, note that operating income can be determined by subtracting gross profit from total expenses, and that operating expenses can be determined by adding all expenses.
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