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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.
Floating on the stock market
The pros and cons of making a company public and how the stock market flotation process works.
Is your business suitable for the stock market?
Before you consider floating your business on the stock market, you need to determine whether it is suitable life on a public market.
Foreign currency issues when importing or exporting
What you need to know about foreign currency transactions and the key decisions you face.
Foreign currency and exchange rate risks
Why exporters and importers need to consider the implications of fluctuations in exchange rates for their business.
Advantages and disadvantages of stock market flotation
Stock market flotation can help you raise capital and realise your investment but may undermine your control of the business - consider the advantages and disadvantages
The process of floating your business on a stock market
Getting ready for a flotation - ensuring legal and regulatory compliance and making key information available.
Forward foreign exchange contracts
When it's a good idea to agree to buy or sell a fixed amount of foreign currency on a set date.
Identify foreign exchange risks
Assessing the possible impact of exchange rate changes - and what you can do to minimise the risks.
Product packaging design: top tips
Product packaging best practice to help you create an effective and appealing packaging design for your company's products
Growth and maturity stage of a product life cycle
Strategies for growing and maturing a product, and increasing profit margins and profitability.
Which technology businesses can use design?
How engineering and technology development businesses can benefit from using design principles
Integrate design with other business processes
How to involve designers in all stages of development of a new product or service, and why you should integrate design from the start
Top tips for user-centred design
Best practice on following user-centred design principles in your business, and developing great products and services for your users
Drafting effective design documents
Well-constructed design documents are valuable assets in keeping the design process on track
Choosing the right brand strategy
How to develop a brand strategy, and use design to create strong brands for your business
Choosing a logo and brand name
How to choose a brand name, select a logo for your business, and create a corporate identity to convey your brand