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What is a warranty?
How warranties work and what you must do if you offer one.
Extended warranties for domestic electrical goods
Your responsibilities if you provide extended warranties on domestic electrical goods, including the information you must supply to customers on price and statutory rights.
What is a guarantee?
How guarantees work and what you must do to honour them to your customers, including how the Consumer Rights Act applies in relation to guarantees.
Returns and refunds, warranties and complaints
Customers' legal rights to return goods, receive refunds for goods, complain about unsatisfactory goods and make claims under guarantees and warranties.
Legal implications of changing the legal structure of your business
The implications a change in business structure has for contracts, tax and Companies House registration details
Who to notify if you transfer your business to a new legal structure
An overview of the different groups and organisations that need to know about your new business entity
Why change your business structure?
Reasons for changing your business structure
Re-registration of a company
How to re-register your company with Companies House to change its legal status
Open a pop-up shop: 6 things you should know
Top tips for setting up a pop-up shop in retail spaces to start a business or promote a new product line or service.
Setting up a pop-up shop - Home Restaurant (video)
Find out how Home Restaurant used the pop-up shop business model to test the market for their eatery.
Running a family business - Mash Direct (video)
Martin and Tracy Hamilton explain how they use the skills of each family member to create an award-winning business.
Advantages and disadvantages of family businesses
Some of the business benefits and common problems which you can encounter when running a family business.
Confirmation statement (previously annual return)
How to make annual checks on the information Companies House has about your company is correct and how to make changes.
Signs, stationery and promotional material
Rules around signs, stationery and promotional material for limited companies, on websites, letters and invoices.
Running a limited company
An overview of the rules and responsibilities when you run a limited company including reporting requirements.
Company and accounting records
How to manage company and accounting records in your limited company and what to do if you encounter problems.
Company changes you must report
How to report a change to your company's registered office address, business contact details or company secretaries.
Taking money out of a limited company
Taking money out of a company will depend on salaries, expenses, benefits, dividends, tax and directors' loans.
Limited company director responsibilities
What a company director must legally do including registering for Self Assessment and filing a Company Tax Return.
Legal and financial costs expenses
What you can claim for accountancy, legal and other professional fees and information on how to write off bad debts.