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Managing printing business environmental impact
Taking a systematic approach is the most effective way for printing businesses to reduce their environmental impact.
Printing business environmental impact
How businesses in the printing industry can reduce their environmental impact through simple and low-cost methods.
How to buy a franchise
Check these dos and don'ts before buying a franchise.
Franchise costs and returns
Be aware of initial and ongoing costs of a franchise and potential financial performance.
Assess a franchise opportunity
What to find out when considering buying a franchise - including costs, competition, current success and support.
Franchise agreements for a franchisee
Your franchise agreement should cover franchise length, territory, amount of fees, management service fees and royalties, and restrictions.
Buy a franchise
What franchising is, how to find and assess franchise opportunities and how to buy a franchise.
Entertainment and modelling agencies: agreeing terms with jobseekers
Terms must be agreed with the jobseeker before you help them to find work.
Entertainment and modelling agencies: cooling-off periods
Cooling-off periods where you cannot charge a fee if you enter into a contract with a work-seeker in several of the entertainment sectors.
Entertainment and modelling agencies: charging fees to certain jobseekers
Subject to certain rules, you can charge fees to certain jobseekers for work-finding services in the acting, entertainment or modelling sectors.
Entertainment and modelling agencies: client accounts
When an employment agency receives money on behalf of a client the money must be paid into a client account.
Entertainment and modelling agencies: providing additional services to jobseekers
Providing additional services to jobseekers in the entertainment or modelling sectors.
Exceptions for up-front fees for fashion and photographic models
When supplying photographic and fashion models, you cannot charge any up-front fees for work-finding services.
Entertainment and modelling agencies
Rules when running an employment agency for the entertainment and modelling industries.
Advantages and disadvantages of buying an existing business
An overview of the advantages and disadvantages of buying an existing business.
Entertainment and modelling agencies: accounts and records
As an entertainment or modelling agency you are required to maintain sufficient accounts and records to show transactions relating to client money.
Buy an existing business
Advantages and disadvantages of buying an existing business including how to assess and value it.
Existing employees when buying a business
Your legal obligations towards staff already working for the new company.
How to calculate the value of a business
How to find out whether the business you want to buy will be profitable and value for money.
Make sure a business is worth buying: due diligence
Research the new business to ensure it is right for you, use solicitors and accountants to help you.