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Setting up a loan or investment with friends or family
Why you should treat finance from friends and family as a formal arrangement.
Legal agreements with friends or family
The importance of ensuring that a formal agreement clearly covers the terms on which money is provided.
Business organisational structure
Different types of business organisational structure, their pros and cons, and the reasons why you might want to change your business structure.
Hierarchical organisational structure
Understand the features, advantages and disadvantages of hierarchical organisational structure and find out how tall hierarchy could benefit your business
Flat organisational structure
Understand the features, advantages and disadvantages of flat organisational structure and find out why you may need to flatten your organisation.
Business continuity and crisis management
What is a business continuity plan, how to create it, and steps to follow to keep your business operating following an incident.
Potential business crises
Understand the different types of crises your business could face, and the role of crisis management in preventing disruption.
Floating on the stock market
The pros and cons of making a company public and how the stock market flotation process works.
Is your business suitable for the stock market?
Before you consider floating your business on the stock market, you need to determine whether it is suitable life on a public market.
Foreign currency issues when importing or exporting
What you need to know about foreign currency transactions and the key decisions you face.
Foreign currency and exchange rate risks
Why exporters and importers need to consider the implications of fluctuations in exchange rates for their business.
Advantages and disadvantages of stock market flotation
Stock market flotation can help you raise capital and realise your investment but may undermine your control of the business - consider the advantages and disadvantages
The process of floating your business on a stock market
Getting ready for a flotation - ensuring legal and regulatory compliance and making key information available.
Importance of change management for business continuity
Having a formal change management strategy can be vital to your business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
Importance of communication in change management
Find out why planning and communication are the two most important factors during business change and reorganisation.
Barriers to organisational change management
Discover common barriers to change management, and where you may experience problems and difficulties with implementing change.
Benefits of change management
Effective change management can improve morale and productivity, and create a positive perception of change for staff and customers.
Change management principles
Explore the principles of change management to help you plan and carry out organisational transformation.
Cost of change management
Change comes at a cost - here's how to calculate the cumulative costs of change management and make it worth the investment.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Understand the role and importance of corporate social responsibility, its business benefits, and how to put CSR into practice.