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Business insurance: the basics
Details of the different types of insurance for businesses and finding a broker.
Checklist: buying insurance for your business
Key stages when choosing and buying insurance.
Buy a franchise
What franchising is, how to find and assess franchise opportunities and how to buy a franchise.
Compare balance sheets to assess business performance
Use simple balance sheet comparisons to assess business performance internally and against competitors.
Interpreting balance sheet figures
Liabilities, assets, debtors and intangibles can all give you a picture of a business' financial health.
Business accounting periods
The balance sheet portrays a business' performance over the financial year or accounting period.
What is in a balance sheet?
Fixed and current assets and liabilities are important contents of a balance sheet.
Use accounting ratios to assess business performance
Liquidity, solvency, efficiency and profitability ratio analysis can be used to assess business performance.
The relationship between balance sheets and profit and loss accounts
How transactions in the profit and loss account can affect balance sheet entries and vice versa.
UK-Israel Eureka Bilateral Collaborative R&D: Round 2
Up to £2 million is available to fund collaborative research and development projects focused on industrial research with Israel.
Northern Ireland Screen call for New Shorts Focus scheme
Northern Ireland Screen has launched this fiction development scheme for under-represented talent.
Entertainment and modelling agencies: agreeing terms with jobseekers
Terms must be agreed with the jobseeker before you help them to find work.
Entertainment and modelling agencies: cooling-off periods
Cooling-off periods where you cannot charge a fee if you enter into a contract with a work-seeker in several of the entertainment sectors.
Entertainment and modelling agencies: charging fees to certain jobseekers
Subject to certain rules, you can charge fees to certain jobseekers for work-finding services in the acting, entertainment or modelling sectors.
Entertainment and modelling agencies: client accounts
When an employment agency receives money on behalf of a client the money must be paid into a client account.
Entertainment and modelling agencies: providing additional services to jobseekers
Providing additional services to jobseekers in the entertainment or modelling sectors.
Exceptions for up-front fees for fashion and photographic models
When supplying photographic and fashion models, you cannot charge any up-front fees for work-finding services.
Entertainment and modelling agencies
Rules when running an employment agency for the entertainment and modelling industries.
ICO Innovation Services – which one is right for you?
The Information Commissioner's Office offers a range of services to innovative businesses using personal data in new and novel ways.
Advantages and disadvantages of buying an existing business
An overview of the advantages and disadvantages of buying an existing business.