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Avoid the problems of overtrading
How expanding businesses can match production and order cycles using gearing, working capital or quick ratio tests.
Venture capital
How the venture capital investment model applies to small and medium-sized businesses seeking funding.
Bankruptcy
An outline of what bankruptcy is and how it can affect your business, income, assets and bank account.
Financial and management accounts
How to use financial and management accounts, analytical accounting tools and reduce the risk of fraud.
Grants: the basics
How to find a grant that suits your business and what makes a business eligible to receive one.
Using payment cards for your business
Advice on using payment cards for business expenditure and on increasing sales by accepting cards from customers.
Make yourself bankrupt
The bankruptcy process and your duties if you make yourself bankrupt.
Choose an insurance adviser for your business
How to create a clear report of your health and safety risks in order to find the right insurance broker.
Wind up a limited company that owes you money
How creditors can use compulsory winding-up orders to attempt to recover monies owed by an insolvent company.
Grow your business successfully
How to identify and overcome the challenges and the pitfalls that you may encounter while growing your business
Risk management
Introduction to the risk management process and the steps to help you identify, manage and minimise risk in your business
Compliance and regulatory risk
How to identify and manage compliance and regulatory risks in your business
Funding for design projects
Find funding support for your design project to help improve processes, products or services
Operational risk
Understand the sources of operational risk and how to minimise the impact of operational problems in your business
Types of risk your business faces
Understand the main types of business risk - what they mean and how they can affect your business
Strategic risk
What is strategic risk management and how to identify and mitigate strategic risks in your business
Evaluate business risks
Risk evaluation helps you determine the importance of each risk to the business and decide whether to take action
Prevent and reduce business risk
Reducing risk to business involves putting in place processes and methods to deal with the consequences of an adverse event
Strategies to help you manage business risk
Common strategies for treating the risks to your business are avoidance, acceptance, sharing, reduction and elimination
Business risk insurance
What is risk protection insurance and how to insure your business against financial losses associated with business risks