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Alternatives to bankruptcy
Other options to consider before making yourself bankrupt.
Acquire assets and borrow money tax efficiently
Tax efficient methods of borrowing and how they can apply to your business.
Calculating tax relief when acquiring an asset
How tax relief can work in different ways when borrowing or leasing to acquire an asset.
Tax relief for buying or leasing assets
Information on the tax reliefs available when buying or leasing assets, and the rules for VAT.
Assessing your cash needs: creditors and debtors
Debtor days ratios and creditor days ratios estimate how long you take to pay debts and customers take to pay you.
Assessing your cash needs: assets and liabilities
Gearing ratios, working capital ratios and quick ratios are useful tools to compare assets and liabilities.
Avoid the problems of overtrading: assets
How to solve cashflow shortfalls and bring new money into the business in a variety of ways.
Avoid the problems of overtrading: debts
Debt factoring, prompt payment discounts and regulating cashflow help reduce the risk of overtrading.
Matching sales and production cycles
Ensuring a closer match between sales and production cycles can help avoid overtrading.
What is overtrading?
How insufficient finance and resources to sustain a business’s level of trading can lead to overtrading.
Example of overtrading
A case study of a situation of overtrading and the potential disaster it causes.
Avoid the problems of overtrading
How expanding businesses can match production and order cycles using gearing, working capital or quick ratio tests.
Borrow money for capital investment from pension schemes
How small self-administered pension schemes allow a business to borrow money with certain restrictions.
Claim loan interest against tax
If you deduct loan interest from your profits you can reduce your business tax bill.
Venture capital
How the venture capital investment model applies to small and medium-sized businesses seeking funding.
Using a venture capital scheme to raise money
How venture capital schemes work, who can apply and what tax reliefs are available for investors.
Manage health and safety when running events
What you should consider regarding health and safety when you are running events, including organisation, site suitability, facilities and emergency planning.
Event health and safety: planning for emergencies
Planning for incidents and emergencies if you are an event organiser, including creating an emergency plan, evacuation procedures and handing over to the emergency services.
Event health and safety: important contacts
As an event organiser, you should keep in touch with organisations such as your local council, the PSNI, the fire brigade, first aid providers, the ambulance service and your insurer.
Event health and safety: planning an event
How to plan, manage and organise a safe event including risk assessment, training, monitoring and review