Finance options
Choose the right finance options
Borrowing
- Non-bank finance
- Raise long-term funding through debt capital markets
- Financing from friends and family
- Factoring and invoice discounting: the basics
- Commercial mortgages and lenders
- Acquire assets and borrow money tax efficiently
- Bank finance
Shares and equity finance
- Equity finance
- Venture capital
- Business angels
- Secure equity investment
- Shares and shareholders
- Floating on the stock market
- London Stock Exchange: Main Market
- London Stock Exchange: AIM
Grants and government support
- Grants: the basics
- Government support for businesses
- Innovation, research and development grants
- Support networks and facilities for innovation and R&D
- Find support for inventors
- Work with UK universities and colleges
Capital allowances
- Capital allowances: the basics
- Research and Development (R&D) Relief for Corporation Tax
- Tax advantages for those starting up in business
- First-year allowances: the basics
Prepare to raise finance
How to attract investment
Manage your cashflow
- Cashflow management: the basics
- Decide whether to lease or buy assets
- Identify potential cashflow problems
- Invoicing and payment terms
- Factoring and invoice discounting: the basics
- Credit checking your customers and setting credit limits
Improve your cashflow and business performance
Expert financial advice
Financial planning and accounts
- Business budgeting
- Financial and management accounts: the basics
- Set up a simple profit and loss account for your business
- Balance sheets: the basics
- Set up a basic record-keeping system
- Investment appraisal techniques
- Avoid the problems of overtrading
- Advice for seasonal businesses
- Pension planning for the self-employed
- Consider your exit strategy when starting up
- Choose and work with an accountant
Manage your cashflow
- Cashflow management: the basics
- Decide whether to lease or buy assets
- Identify potential cashflow problems
- Invoicing and payment terms
- Factoring and invoice discounting: the basics
- Credit checking your customers and setting credit limits
Improve your cashflow and business performance
- Ensuring customers pay you on time
- Avoid insolvency
- How to turn your business around
- Managing a business when economic conditions are tough
Managing suppliers and payments
- Manage your suppliers
- Invoicing and payment terms
- Getting paid when selling overseas
- Credit checking your customers and setting credit limits
- Factoring and invoice discounting: the basics
- Ensuring customers pay you on time
Debt recovery
- Ensuring customers pay you on time
- Dissolved company assets: the basics
- Formal requests for payment: statutory demands
- Get help and advice about your debt problems
- Recover debt through court
- Recover your debt through court: Money Claim Online
- Recover your debt through court: Possession Claim Online
- Owed money from a bankrupt or a company in liquidation
- Make someone who owes you money bankrupt
- How to wind up a company that owes you money
- Avoid insolvency
Business banking
- How to choose and manage a business bank account
- Debit and credit cards for your business
- Using payment cards to buy and sell goods or services
- Accepting online payments
- Foreign currency and exchange risks
- Understanding European banking services
Insurance
- Insure your business and assets – general insurances
- Insure your business – people, life and health
- Liability insurance
- Insurance for international trade
- Choose an insurance adviser and present your risk
Expert financial advice
- Choose and work with an accountant
- Get help and advice about your debt problems
- Choose an insurance adviser and present your risk
- Choose and work with a solicitor
Introduction to insolvency
Insolvency information for limited companies
- Liquidation and alternatives for companies and limited liability partnerships
- Compulsory liquidation for companies and limited liability partnerships: the process
- Director disqualification
- Reuse of a company name after liquidation
- Being interviewed by the official receiver
Insolvency information for partnerships
Insolvency information for sole traders and individuals
Alternatives to bankruptcy
The bankruptcy process
- Bankruptcy: the basics
- How to make yourself bankrupt
- Being interviewed by the official receiver
- Income Payments Agreements and Income Payments Orders
- Fast Track Voluntary Arrangements
- How to wind up a company that owes you money
How bankruptcy affects you and your business
- The effects of bankruptcy
- Bankruptcy: what happens to your home
- Bankruptcy: what happens to your bank account
- Bankruptcy: what happens to your pension
- Ending bankruptcy: discharge, early discharge and annulment
- Sanctions on behaviour in event of a bankruptcy
- Individual Insolvency Register
- Complain against an insolvency practitioner or The Insolvency Service
- How to complain against a company or limited liability partnership
Recover assets
- Dissolved company assets: the basics
- What happens to assets owned by a dissolved company
- Discretionary grants for dissolved companies that can be restored
- Discretionary grants for dissolved companies that cannot be restored
- Shares owned by a dissolved company
- Vacant land and buildings owned by a dissolved company
- Residential freehold property owned by a dissolved company
- Headleases of property owned by a dissolved company
- Disclaiming property vested in the Crown as bona vacantia
- Mortgages and charges owned by a dissolved company
- Intellectual property and rights owned by a dissolved company
- Trade marks owned by a dissolved company
- Repaying funds to restored companies
- Adverse possession of land and buildings where the Title is not registered
- Adverse possession of land and buildings where the Title is registered
- Sale by a mortgagee of land and buildings vested in the Crown as bona vacantia
- How to calculate purchase prices and legal costs for bona vacantia assets
- Guidelines to financial institutions about cash balances owned by a dissolved company
- The distribution of a dissolved company’s share capital
- Copyright owned by a dissolved company
- Treasury Solicitor consent for administrative restoration
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