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Furniture manufacturing solvent use reduction
How furniture manufacturers can reduce their use of solvents and limit their solvent emissions to the atmosphere.
Furniture manufacturing transport efficiency
How better transport management can help furniture manufacturers reduce costs and help the environment.
Furniture manufacturing energy efficiency
How better energy management can enable furniture manufacturers to reduce costs and help the environment.
Dealing with furniture manufacturing waste
How furniture manufacturing businesses can work to reduce or eliminate their waste in a cost-effective way.
Furniture manufacturing resource efficiency
How furniture manufacturers can cut costs and waste by using materials, water and energy more efficiently.
Reducing environmental impact of furniture manufacturing
Furniture manufacturing tips for reducing resource usage, more efficient manufacturing processes and less chemical use.
Cashflow forecast examples
How you can use cashflow forecasts to plan for borrowing and for peaks and troughs in your business cycle.
Financing from friends and family
Pros and cons of getting a loan from friends and family and your tax position on repayments.
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.