Business Factsheets

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Corporate Finance

• Valuing a Business
• Buying a Business 
• Selling a Business
• Floating your Company
• Planning Your Exit from Your Business

Exporting & Importing

• First Steps to Exporting
• Research your Export Markets
• Export Finance
• Import Finance
  

Cashflow Management

• Managing your Cashflow
• Credit Control
• Interest on Late Payments
• Debt Recovery
• Managing your Creditors

Managing your Employees

• Everyday workplace policies
• An Internet policy for your employees
• An email policy for your employees
• Performance appraisals
• Leadership
• Managing change
• Motivating employees
• Teambuilding
• Communicating with employees
• Assertiveness
• Managing your time
• Stress Management
• Employees that work from home
  

Consultants 

• Using a Consultant
  

Employment Law

•  Employment Contracts
•  Discipline and Grievance Issues
•  Dismissing Employees
•  Redundancy
•  Employment Tribunals
•  Rights for Working Parents and Carers
•  Sickness issues and SSP
•  Discrimination
•  Working Time Regulations
•  Minimum Wage and Statutory Pay Obligations
•  The Law on Flexible Working

 Remuneration

•  Remuneration
•  Incentive pay

 Pensions

•  Company Pension Schemes
•  Personal Pension Schemes
•  Executive Pensions
•  Stakeholder pensions

Information Technology

•  Setting up your First IT System
•  Specifying and Purchasing IT
•  Network Servers
•  Networks and Communications
•  Mobile Computing
•  Going Online
•  Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
•  Email
•  Computer Printers
•  Telecoms for Competitive Advantage
•  Getting the most out of your PC
•  Maintaining your IT system
•  IT Disaster Prevention
• Choosing Accounting Software
• Using Accounting Software
• Payroll Software
• Finding Information on the Internet
• Useful Internet Sites
• Your Website Strategy
• Designing your Website
• Marketing on the Internet
• Intranets

Insurance

• Insurance to Protect your Business
• Making an Insurance Claim
• Managing Insurance Risks
• Litigation and Insurance

Law

(see also Employment Law)

• Employment Law
• New Employment Law in 2001
• New Employment Law in 2002
  

Business Law

• New Business Law in 2001
• New Business Law in 2002

General Marketing

• Research for Your Marketing
• Planning Your Marketing
• Pricing
• Building Customer Loyalty
• Marketing with Your Database
• Design
• Creating a Brand
• Advertising Strategy
• Writing an Advertisement
• Exhibitions
• Direct Mail
•  Writing a Mailshot
• Effective PR

Premises

• Moving Premises
• Choosing Office Premises
• Renting Premises
• Buying Premises
• Getting out of a Lease
• Rent Reviews and Rating Assessments
• Securing your Premises

Purchasing

• Purchasing
• Negotiating a Purchase

Selling

• Managing your Sales Team
• Your Sales Strategy
• Selling Technique
• Negotiating a Sale
• Sales Presentations

Management Strategies

• SWOT Analysis
• ISO 9000
• Benchmarking

Growth Strategies

• Strategic Acquisitions

The Board of Directors

• Effective Board Meetings
• Directors’ Responsibilities
• Role of the Company Secretary

Business Formation

• Forming a Business

TAX

• Tax and NI