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Business growth: developing skills
Developing effective leadership skills and making the most of other people's abilities can help you grow your business
Measure your financial performance
Use common financial performance measures, such as profit margins and accounting ratios, to review your business finances
Employee focused performance measurement
Tools and techniques to measure and manage your employee performance more effectively
Benchmark your business performance
Use benchmarking to measure your business performance against that of your competitors as a focus for your growth strategy
Set business performance targets
How to move from performance measurement to target-setting in order to help your business improve and grow
Customer focused performance measurement
How to gather and manage information to help your business attract, retain and sell to customers
Competitor analysis
Performance metrics you can use to analyse your competitors, and how to use this information to inform your business decisions
Identify finance options for your business (video)
In this video, business advisers explain how to identify finance options for your business.
Make best use of standards
Introduction to the different technical, management and best practice standards, and their benefits to your business
Secure equity investment
How to secure private equity or business angel investment in your business.
Setting terms and conditions
How to set the terms of a contract between you and your customers.
Setting suitable payment terms for your customers
Payment terms are crucial to your cashflow and competitive position and should be explained clearly to customers.
VAT details to include on invoices
VAT-registered businesses must include extra information on invoices, such as identifying numbers and VAT paid.
Understanding depreciation of assets
The value of assets falls over time and can be written off in accounts spreading the cost over several tax years.
Project management templates and tools
Find project management sample documents and templates, including project scope, project plan and risk register templates.
Advantages of project management
Discover how project management methods and strategies can help you reduce risk, cut costs and improve success rates.
Thinking about growing your business (video)
Short video tutorial covering some important points to consider before growing or improving your business.
Project management
Introduction to project management, the different methodologies, processes and stages, and benefits to your business.
Taking court action to collect debts
Taking court action to collect debts.
Taking non-court action to collect debts
There are a number of ways of collecting a debt without having to go to court.