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Businesses in difficulty
Assess your business' performance. Ensuring customers pay you on time. Insolvency: the basics. Avoid insolvency. Individual insolvency: find out your options for dealing with debt. Complain against an undischarged bankrupt or disqualified company director
Considering buying a business
Obtaining information on a business you are thinking of buying. Understanding contracts when buying or selling a business. Assess your business' performance. Consider your exit strategy when starting up. ...
Insurance
Get the right insurance for your business. Insure your business and assets - general insurances. Insure your business - people, life and health. Liability insurance. Insurance for international trade. ...
Debt recovery
Ensuring customers pay you on time. Recover your debts. Calculate the interest due on an unpaid debt. Formal requests for payment: statutory demands. Get help and advice about your debt problems. Recover debt through court. ...
Paying HMRC
Guidance for Northern Ireland businesses on how to pay HMRC using various payment methods for specific taxes
Managing suppliers and payments
Manage your suppliers. Invoicing and payment terms. Getting paid when selling overseas. Credit checking your customers and setting credit limits. Factoring and invoice discounting: the basics. Ensuring customers pay you on time. ...
Improve your cashflow and business performance
Assess your business' performance. Assess and improve your business cashflow. Ensuring customers pay you on time. Recover your debts. Avoid insolvency. How to turn your business around.
Manage your cashflow
Cashflow management: the basics. Decide whether to lease or buy assets. Identify potential cashflow problems. Invoicing and payment terms. Factoring and invoice discounting: the basics. Credit checking your customers and setting credit limits. ...
Making changes to your business
Guidance on making changes to your business including how to report changes to HMRC and Companies House
Buying a business
Buy an existing business. Legal structures: the basics. Choose the right name for your business. Understanding contracts when buying or selling a business.
Selling your business
Complete the sale of your business. Closing a business checklist. How to achieve an employee buyout. Responsibilities to employees if you buy or sell a business. Company and LLP strike-off, dissolution and restoration. ...
Transferring your business
Selling or passing a business to a family member. Consider your exit strategy when starting up. Succession planning and business transfer.
Managing financial difficulty
Guides which can help your business through financial problems to find resolutions to suit different circumstances.
Record-keeping
Guidance on record-keeping for businesses including how to set up a basic system and free templates
Claim VAT refunds in Northern Ireland or the EU, if you’re established in Northern Ireland or in the EU
How Northern Ireland and EU businesses can claim refunds of VAT incurred on goods in the EU and Northern Ireland using the EU VAT refund system.
If you cannot pay your tax bill on time
You must arrange to pay your tax bill with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) if you either miss a payment or know you cannot pay on time
Finance - find a case study
Case studies focusing how businesses have raised finance, managed financial accounts and overcome financial difficulties
Buy or sell a business - find a case study
Case studies focusing on companies that have been bought, sold or fanchised
Options for financing business growth (video)
In this video, business advisers explain the importance of getting the right finance for your business growth.
Make sure you have the cash to grow (video)
Guidance and useful tips on financial planning to help grow your business