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Choose the best employee share scheme
Decide on your objectives for an employee share scheme
Setting up an employee share scheme: employer duties
The guidelines and relevant legislation governing employee share ownership schemes
Banking overseas and UK-based foreign currency accounts
Pros and cons of opening an overseas bank account or a UK-based foreign currency account to hedge your risks
Buying currency options
The pros and cons of buying currency options and how it might help your business hedge foreign exchange risks
Foreign currency transactions and bookkeeping
How making and receiving payments in foreign currencies can affect your accounts
Set up a staff incentive scheme
Steps employers can take to set up incentive and perks schemes
Ensuring the staff incentive scheme is successful
How to evaluate your staff incentive scheme and ensure it works effectively
Implement a flexible working policy
A checklist of things to think about before setting up new policies to achieve work-life balance
Appoint advisers for successful flotation
The advisers you need for a flotation including corporate advisers, stockbrokers, corporate lawyers and accountants
Advantages and disadvantages of using a payment-processing company
Using payment-processing companies to handle online card transactions has advantages, but it is also worthwhile to consider the disadvantages.
Advantages and disadvantages of selling through online marketplaces
Using an online marketplace for your business has many advantages, but it is also worthwhile to consider the disadvantages.
Checklist: applying for an internet merchant account
The requirements you will need to satisfy when applying to a bank for an internet merchant account.
Sources of leadership training
Forms of training available and where to get them
Decide your approach to importing
Keeping importing simple by dealing with experienced exporters in developed countries and using agents
Running an employment agency or business
Rules you must be aware of and comply with when setting up or running an employment agency.
Writing a person specification and job description
Information about job descriptions and person specification
Using employment agencies to find staff
What information to provide employment agencies with to help them find staff for you
Job application process: CVs and application forms
Employers can weigh up the options for recruiting new staff either by requesting CVs or using job application forms
Shortlisting and inviting candidates to interview
How to draw up a shortlist of candidates for interview
Preparing for the job interview
Plan questions, study CVs carefully and make arrangements for the interview