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Financial risk
Understand the main types of financial risks to your business and find ways to mitigate and reduce them
Evaluate business risks
Risk evaluation helps you determine the importance of each risk to the business and decide whether to take action
Prevent and reduce business risk
Reducing risk to business involves putting in place processes and methods to deal with the consequences of an adverse event
Strategies to help you manage business risk
Common strategies for treating the risks to your business are avoidance, acceptance, sharing, reduction and elimination
Business risk insurance
What is risk protection insurance and how to insure your business against financial losses associated with business risks
Business growth: market research
Use market research to drive business growth and innovation and to stay ahead of the competition
Business growth strategy and planning
Maximise the chances of business growth success by carefully planning your growth strategy
Business growth: cashflow management
Cashflow issues are common in growing businesses - here's how to control working capital and manage finances for growth
Business growth: developing skills
Developing effective leadership skills and making the most of other people's abilities can help you grow your business
Measure your financial performance
Use common financial performance measures, such as profit margins and accounting ratios, to review your business finances
Employee focused performance measurement
Tools and techniques to measure and manage your employee performance more effectively
Benchmark your business performance
Use benchmarking to measure your business performance against that of your competitors as a focus for your growth strategy
Set business performance targets
How to move from performance measurement to target-setting in order to help your business improve and grow
Customer focused performance measurement
How to gather and manage information to help your business attract, retain and sell to customers
Competitor analysis
Performance metrics you can use to analyse your competitors, and how to use this information to inform your business decisions
Advantages of water efficiency in business
Some of the financial and non-financial benefits of taking a sustainable approach to water use in your business
How to analyse water use in your business
How you can assess the cost of your business water use by analysing how much water you use across all operations
Top tips for saving water in your business
Tips on how to engage your business in saving water and practical tips for minimising water use
Grow your business - find a case study
Local businesses tell their stories of growth, share strategies for success, and explain how they manage performance and risks
What is the Plastic Packaging Tax?
How your business can comply with the Plastic Packaging Tax which came into force in the UK on 1 April 2022