Stop guessing whether your business made money this month. The Small Business Control Center is one Excel workbook that answers the four questions every small business owner asks: what did I sell, what do I have in stock, what did I spend, and what did I actually keep? Type your numbers in, and the dashboard updates itself — every number on it is a live formula, not a typed-in value.

What's inside: Dashboard tab: live KPI cards (Total Sales, Total Expenses, Net Profit, Stock Value), a Top Products by Revenue ranking, a Low-Stock Alerts table with reorder levels, a monthly Money In vs Money Out summary and a bar chart. Inventory tab: your stock list with quantities, costs and reorder levels. Product Costing tab: work out what each item really costs you to make or buy, so you can price it properly. Sales tab: log every sale — it feeds the dashboard and the P&L. Expenses tab: log every cost, from rent to coffee beans. P&L tab: a monthly profit-and-loss summary built from your sales and expenses. Instructions tab: plain-English guidance. Demo data included: a full month of sample data for a fictional cafe, "The Golden Fork Cafe" (November 2026: sales $1,662.50, expenses $1,306.00, net profit $119.27). 281 live formulas across the 7 tabs — tested and working, with no formula errors.

Who it's for: Cafe, restaurant and shop owners who run the business on a notebook and a gut feeling. Market sellers and home bakers who need to know if a product is actually profitable. Small business owners who hate accounting software — no monthly subscription, no learning curve, no cloud account to manage.

What you need: Microsoft Excel (any recent version) or a free Google account — upload the .xlsx to Google Sheets and it works there too. Your own numbers: what you sell, what it costs, what you spend. That's all.

What you get: 1 Excel workbook — Small-Business-Control-Center.xlsx, 7 tabs, 281 live formulas. 3 CSV files with the demo data. A setup guide and a README. 8 files in one ZIP (1.4 MB). Personal and commercial use for one business — you may not resell, share or redistribute the file itself.

FAQ: Does it work in Google Sheets? Yes. Upload the .xlsx to Google Drive and open it with Google Sheets. My business doesn't use dollars. Can I change the currency? Yes — change the currency format of the money cells to your own currency and everything keeps working. Do I need to know Excel formulas? No. You only type your numbers into the input cells. The formulas are already written.