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Reduce your business insurance risks and premiums
How to pay less for insurance by managing risk - perhaps by improving your health and safety performance.
What insurance does my business need?
Learn about the different types of insurance and how to get help from an insurance broker.
What types of business insurance are legally required?
Information on the types of cover you must have by law - typically employers' liability and motor insurance.
Liability and professional indemnity cover
Insurance against legal claims for damages - public and product liability and professional indemnity cover.
Business insurance when working from home
How working from home could affect your cover - perhaps requiring an increased premium or changes to your property.
Business insurance losses and claims
The information you should provide when making a claim and the role of the loss adjuster.
The purpose of business insurance
Why businesses should consider insurance and the types of events your business can insure against.
Business insurance: the basics
Details of the different types of insurance for businesses and finding a broker.
Checklist: buying insurance for your business
Key stages when choosing and buying insurance.
Buy a franchise
What franchising is, how to find and assess franchise opportunities and how to buy a franchise.
Compare balance sheets to assess business performance
Use simple balance sheet comparisons to assess business performance internally and against competitors.
Interpreting balance sheet figures
Liabilities, assets, debtors and intangibles can all give you a picture of a business' financial health.
Business accounting periods
The balance sheet portrays a business' performance over the financial year or accounting period.
What is in a balance sheet?
Fixed and current assets and liabilities are important contents of a balance sheet.
Use accounting ratios to assess business performance
Liquidity, solvency, efficiency and profitability ratio analysis can be used to assess business performance.
The relationship between balance sheets and profit and loss accounts
How transactions in the profit and loss account can affect balance sheet entries and vice versa.
Advantages and disadvantages of buying an existing business
An overview of the advantages and disadvantages of buying an existing business.
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.