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Considering Starting Up?
- Starting a business: the basics
- Family-run businesses
- Starting a business when economic conditions are tough
- Common mistakes when starting up – and how to avoid them
- Starting a part-time business
- How do I survive until my business is off the ground?
- Thinking about starting a social enterprise?
- Research and develop your business ideas, new products and services
Debt Recovery
- How to wind up a company that owes you money
- Make someone who owes you money bankrupt
- Owed money from a bankrupt or a company in liquidation
- Recover your debt through court: Possession Claim Online
- Recover your debt through court: Money Claim Online
- Recover debt through court
- Formal requests for payment: statutory demands
- Dissolved company assets: the basics
- Get help and advice about your debt problems
Employment & Skills
- Know your legal obligations on pensions
- Trade union membership rights
- Work effectively with trade unions
- Employment tribunal claims – the outcomes
- Managing the performance of your staff
- Understanding fixed-term contracts
- Parental leave and time off for dependants
- How Investors in People can help your business
- Manage absence and sickness
- Set the right pay rates
- Employing older workers
- Industrial disputes
- Employing part-time workers
- Employment tribunal claims – the basics
- When an employee retires
- Know how much holiday to give your staff
- Redundancy: the options
- Make child maintenance deductions from an employee’s pay
- National minimum wage – national minimum wage rates and overview
- Employment status
- Handling grievances
- Set up employment policies for your business
- Support the delivery of primary, secondary and further education
- Consider time for training
- Ordinary paternity leave and pay
- Maternity leave and pay
- Reorganisations, restructurings and other major changes
- Employment tribunal claims – the process
- Disciplinary procedures, hearings and appeals
- Sending staff on international business trips
- Hours, rest breaks and the working week
- Employing young people
- Sunday working and night working
- The employment contract
- Skills and training for directors and owners
- Inform and consult your employees
- When an employee resigns
- Responsibilities to employees if you buy or sell a business
Finance & Grants
- Shares and shareholders
- Understanding European banking services
- Foreign currency and exchange risks
- Using payment cards to buy and sell goods or services
- Debit and credit cards for your business
- How to wind up a company that owes you money
- Make someone who owes you money bankrupt
- Owed money from a bankrupt or a company in liquidation
- Recover your debt through court: Possession Claim Online
- Recover your debt through court: Money Claim Online
- Recover debt through court
- Formal requests for payment: statutory demands
- Dissolved company assets: the basics
- Pension planning for the self-employed
- Investment appraisal techniques
- Business budgeting
- Get help and advice about your debt problems
- Choose and work with an accountant
- How to turn your business around
- Avoid insolvency
- Credit checking your customers and setting credit limits
- Innovation, research and development grants
- Government support for businesses
- London Stock Exchange: AIM
- London Stock Exchange: Main Market
- Bank finance
- Business angels
- Venture capital
- Acquire assets and borrow money tax efficiently
- Financing from friends and family
- Raise long-term funding through debt capital markets
- Non-bank finance
- Choose the right finance when starting up
- Secure equity investment
- Obtaining bank financing
- Insure your business and assets – general insurances
- Getting paid when selling overseas
- Set up a simple profit and loss account for your business
- Avoid the problems of overtrading
- Decide whether to lease or buy assets
- Set up a basic record-keeping system
- Managing a business when economic conditions are tough
- Factoring and invoice discounting: the basics
- Ensuring customers pay you on time
- Invoicing and payment terms
- How to choose and manage a business bank account
- Identify potential cashflow problems
- Grants: the basics
- Consider your exit strategy when starting up
- Advice for seasonal businesses
Finance Options
- Shares and shareholders
- Innovation, research and development grants
- Government support for businesses
- London Stock Exchange: AIM
- London Stock Exchange: Main Market
- Bank finance
- Business angels
- Venture capital
- Acquire assets and borrow money tax efficiently
- Financing from friends and family
- Raise long-term funding through debt capital markets
- Non-bank finance
- Choose the right finance when starting up
- Secure equity investment
- Grants: the basics
Financial Planning & Accounts
- Pension planning for the self-employed
- Investment appraisal techniques
- Business budgeting
- Choose and work with an accountant
- Set up a simple profit and loss account for your business
- Avoid the problems of overtrading
- Set up a basic record-keeping system
- Consider your exit strategy when starting up
- Advice for seasonal businesses
Grow Your Business
- Business insurance: the basics
- Project management – the basics
- Choose and manage a commercial agent
- Manage overseas suppliers
- Research and develop your business ideas, new products and services
- Increase your profitability
- Make best use of standards
- Equity finance
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Joint ventures and partnering
- Retain and grow your customer base
- Measure performance and set targets
- Outsourcing
International Trade
- Doing business in another language
- Letters of credit
- International Commercial Contracts – Incoterms
- Importing and exporting by post
- Beginners’ guide to export controls
- Authorised Economic Operators
- Introduction to Intrastat
- International trade paperwork: the basics
- Using brokers and forwarders
- International transport and distribution
- Government help for exporters
IT & eCommerce
- Computer hardware: the basics
- Cloud computing
- Maintaining your web content and technology
- E-commerce and the law
- Privacy and data protection in direct marketing
- Comply with data protection legislation
- Accounting software
- Protecting intellectual property
- Generate business from your e-marketing plan
- Fulfilling online orders
PAYE For Employers
- PAYE for employers: the basics
- Additional Statutory Paternity Pay: eligibility forms and records
- Ordinary Statutory Paternity Pay: eligibility, forms and records
- Statutory Adoption Pay: eligibility, forms and records
- Statutory Maternity Pay: eligibility, forms and records
- Statutory Sick Pay: an overview
- How to register as an employer
Premises & Property
- Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT): the basics
- Changing your premises and business rates
- Planning permission – an overview
- Building regulations – an overview
- Commercial property: responsibilities of business tenants
- Renewing and ending your business lease
- Renting business premises
- Capital allowances: the basics
- Commercial mortgages and lenders
- Access and facilities for disabled people
Starting Up
- Starting a business: the basics
- Set up and register a partnership
- Family-run businesses
- Set up and register a limited partnership
- Starting a business when economic conditions are tough
- Set up and register a limited company (private or public)
- Intellectual property: the basics
- Comply with the law in the provision of goods, facilities and services
- Financial and management accounts: the basics
- Extra help and support available for your start up
- Choose and manage your IT supplier
- Computer software: the basics
- Rules for naming your limited company or limited liability partnership (LLP)
- Are you ready to import?
- Set up and register a limited liability partnership (LLP)
- Introduction to VAT
- Set up a social enterprise
- How to complete your VAT Return box by box
- The benefits of business mentoring
- Buy a franchise
- Buy an existing business
- Common mistakes when starting up – and how to avoid them
- Environmental responsibilities
- Starting a part-time business
- Who is liable for Corporation Tax
- How do I survive until my business is off the ground?
- Thinking about starting a social enterprise?
- Preparing to export
- Non-disclosure agreements
- Legal structures: the basics
- Research and develop your business ideas, new products and services
- Set up and register as self-employed
- Choose the right name for your business
- Prepare a business plan
- Stock control and inventory
- Ensuring your workers are eligible to work in the UK
- Exporting – an overview
Tax, Payroll & Company Information
- Self-employed tax and National Insurance
- PAYE for employers: the basics
- Business rates – an overview
- Additional Statutory Paternity Pay: eligibility forms and records
- Ordinary Statutory Paternity Pay: eligibility, forms and records
- Statutory Adoption Pay: eligibility, forms and records
- Statutory Maternity Pay: eligibility, forms and records
- Statutory Sick Pay: an overview
- How to register as an employer
_Kraken Resources
- Sample press release for a local newspaper
- Current tribunal compensation limits
- SWOT Analysis – Understanding Your Business
- Self-employment: checklist
- An illustration of the impact of the new order on XYZ’s cashflow
- Example Version Control Document
- QMS project plan template
- Example key processes master list
- The legal position regarding monitoring and good-practice pointers
- Automatically unfair reasons for dismissal
- Create a written statement of employment
- SWOT Analysis – Opportunities and Threats
- Five forces business model example
- PESTLE analysis example
- SWOT analysis example
