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Voluntary liquidation
Why voluntary liquidation might be the best way to cease your involvement in your business.
Why succession planning is important
How knowing what succession planning is and knowing what's at stake will help you to make wise decisions.
Managing financial difficulty
Guides which can help your business through financial problems to find resolutions to suit different circumstances.
Start-up business ideas
Guides and tools to help you find and develop ideas for ways to start up your own business in Northern Ireland
Business insurance: the basics
Details of the different types of insurance for businesses and finding a broker.
Benefits of health and safety management systems
Management systems help control risk, reduce costs and improve your reputation, other benefits include increased morale and possible lower insurance premiums.
Cost of living: Support and advice for small businesses
Sources of support and funding to help Northern Ireland businesses.
Business networks in Northern Ireland
Use business clubs and forums to make contacts and promote your business in Northern Ireland
Stock control administration
An administrator or stock controllers' duties, typical paperwork and auditing or checking stock
Advantages of reducing your vehicle emissions
How reducing vehicle emissions can benefit your business by reducing costs and improving your environmental performance.
Tax implications of family succession
Pass shares to family members tax-efficiently, maximising relief for Capital Gains Tax and inheritance tax.
Key health and safety management legal obligations
Staying up to date with your legal responsibilities for health and safety to protect staff, customers and visitors, have liability insurance and have a policy.
Control and review your health and safety management systems
Keeping records and driving continual improvement of health and safety management through setting targets, regular reviews and audits.
Types of stock
The four main types of stock - raw materials and components, work in progress, finished goods and consumables
Stock security
Set up a security policy, prevent employee theft and ensure you comply with health and safety requirements
Using RFID for inventory control, stock security and quality management
RFID inventory management provides a highly versatile way to control and track stock
Control the quality of your stock
Stock and batch tracking, checking goods and the British Standards Institute scheme for quality management
How much stock should you keep?
Advantages and disadvantages of keeping either plenty of stock or very little
Stock control methods
How to control stock through reviews, minimum levels, using batch control and first in first out systems
Stock control systems - keeping track manually
Using inventory listing, stock codes, stock books and a simple re-order system to manage your stock