Flow charts are effective ways to present many types of business processes, such as your payroll flow, your marketing stages or your overall business model.

You can make a flow chart in Google Docs in a couple of ways. Here's what you can do with the native Google Drawing and third-party options.

Add text to all of the boxes on the process flow. The bottom-most boxes should contain the end point, where the process is complete.

Mysticgeek, a blogger over at The How-To Geek's realm, posts a step-by-step tutorial to creating flow charts with presentation-worthy looks in Microsoft Word 2007. If you've got an eye for design ...