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Make yourself bankrupt
The bankruptcy process and your duties if you make yourself bankrupt.
Ending a joint venture
How to plan an exit strategy for your joint venture, choose the right exit option, and end the partnership arrangement in a fair and friendly manner.
6 tips for a successful joint venture
Six tips for setting up a successful joint venture, negotiating JV agreements and overcoming common problems that cause joint ventures to fail.
Types of joint venture
Differences between various types of joint venture structure, and how to decide on the right form of partnership for your business.
Is your business ready for a joint venture?
How to carry out a SWOT analysis for a potential strategic partnership and assess if you are ready to enter a joint venture.
Choose an insurance adviser for your business
How to create a clear report of your health and safety risks in order to find the right insurance broker.
Wind up a limited company that owes you money
How creditors can use compulsory winding-up orders to attempt to recover monies owed by an insolvent company.
Grow your business successfully
How to identify and overcome the challenges and the pitfalls that you may encounter while growing your business
Manage the risks of exporting
Learn how you can identify and manage export risks.
Getting paid when exporting
Guidance on reducing risks associated with receiving payments from selling goods or services internationally.
Does my business need a consumer credit licence?
If you sell on credit, lend money, issue credit cards, collect debts or give debt advice, you may need a consumer credit licence to operate.
How to apply for a consumer credit licence
You can apply for consumer credit licensing from the Financial Conduct Authority who will assess your fitness on factors such as competence and past offences.
Export licences and certificates
Licences, certificates and special rules for taking goods out of the UK
Demonstrate good environmental compliance
Show your environmental credentials to become a more attractive business to contractors in Northern Ireland when preparing your business for tender
Compliance and regulatory risk
How to identify and manage compliance and regulatory risks in your business
Using business angel investment to grow our business - Pitchbooking
How Pitchbooking has successfully grown through business angel investment.
Risk management
Introduction to the risk management process and the steps to help you identify, manage and minimise risk in your business
Find contracts and tender successfully
Put your business in the best position to find and win tender competitions in Northern Ireland, Great Britain, Republic of Ireland and the EU
Food and drink - find a case study
Case studies highlighting success stories of businesses in the food and drink industry
How to grow your business
Guidance to help you explore the different ways of growing your business, such as franchising or buying another business, increasing your sales and market share, achieving efficiencies to boost profits or using IP to grow