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Advantages of business continuity planning
Benefits of business continuity planning and its role in helping your business cope with possible disasters.
Minimise the potential impact of crises
How to reduce potential threats to your business by taking preventive measures and purchasing insurance.
Test your business continuity plan
How to test a business continuity plan to find out if it will work to protect your business when disaster strikes.
Create a business continuity plan
How to write a business continuity plan, what to include and why should you carry out business continuity planning.
Business impact analysis
Understand the importance of analysing the likelihood and the effects of a crisis on your business.
Staff records
Legal obligations for employers when gathering, keeping and using information on workers.
The staff records you must and should keep
What staff records you must keep to comply with the Data Protection Act.
Advantages of keeping staff records
How keeping staff records can benefit your business.
Duty suspensions and tariff quotas
Temporary duty suspensions and tariff quotas for importing goods into the UK.
Set up a charity
Key steps to setting up a charity, including choosing the right charity structure, finding trustees and registering your charity.
Advantages and disadvantages of raising finance from friends and family
The advantages and potential problems of finance from friends and family.
Financing from friends and family: loan or investment?
How giving a share in your business is an option if you need long-term funds from friends and family.
False accounting
How following good business practice can help you avoid false accounting and prevent fraud.
Financing from friends and family: tax implications
Understand the tax implications of investment and interest-bearing borrowing from friends and family.
Setting up a loan or investment with friends or family
Why you should treat finance from friends and family as a formal arrangement.
Legal agreements with friends or family
The importance of ensuring that a formal agreement clearly covers the terms on which money is provided.
Visual merchandising for your retail business
How to use visual merchandising to promote your retail business and products, attract customers and drive sales.
Business organisational structure
Different types of business organisational structure, their pros and cons, and the reasons why you might want to change your business structure.
Visual merchandising: point-of-sale displays and price promotions
Customers can be encouraged to make impulse purchases by using point-of-sale displays and price promotions.
Visual merchandising: advantages of retail window displays
Effectively using window displays can have many benefits for your business.