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What to mark on your package for export
How to ensure safe transportation of your goods by using visible, durable and standardised handling instructions.
Checklist for getting your export packaging right
Issues your business should consider before packaging your goods, from packaging waste rules to insurance implications.
Top tips for conducting export market research
Five top tips to help you conduct your export market research.
Conducting in-market export research
Ways of conducting in-market research on export markets.
Types of accounting software
Understand the different types of accounting software, from free software and small business packages, to cloud accounting and enterprise-level software.
Record-keeping best practice
Good record keeping habits and the "four S" approach: system, separate, security, storage.
Advanced computer networks: intranets, extranets and VPNs
Different types of business computer networks, including wide area networks, virtual private networks, cloud networks, intranets and extranets.
Office networks
Understand the different types of office computer networks, including peer-to-peer and client/server local area networks.
Benefits of computer networks
Key advantages of networking your computers and reducing costs by sharing your files, resources and storage on a business network.
Network security issues
Common network security issues include data loss, security breaches and malicious attacks - learn how to secure your network against them.
Researching customers and markets abroad
Research overseas markets, consumers and countries to make informed decisions about your business.
Researching export markets online
Ways of conducting online research on export markets.
Claim VAT refunds in Northern Ireland or the EU, if you’re established in Northern Ireland or in the EU
How Northern Ireland and EU businesses can claim refunds of VAT incurred on goods in the EU and Northern Ireland using the EU VAT refund system.
Purchase ledger
What to record in a purchase ledger to keep track of how much money you owe.
Wages book
The value of maintaining a wages book and how to manage it if you employ staff.
Digital financial records
Reasons for keeping computer-based financial records and how to choose bookkeeping and accounting software packages.
Security principle under the UK GDPR
Measures you should put in place to satisfy data integrity, confidentiality and availability requirements under the UK GDPR.
Accountability under the UK GDPR
Accountability principle says organisations are responsible for, and must be able to demonstrate, compliance with the data protection laws.
Data protection principles under the UK GDPR
Key UK GDPR principles include lawfulness, fairness and transparency, purpose limitation, data minimisation, accuracy, storage limitation, security and accountability.
Does the GDPR still apply to the UK?
The EU GDPR no longer applies to UK businesses unless they operate in, offer goods/services to, or monitor the behaviour of, individuals in the EEA.