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Advantages and disadvantages of raising finance from friends and family
The advantages and potential problems of finance from friends and family.
Financing from friends and family: loan or investment?
How giving a share in your business is an option if you need long-term funds from friends and family.
False accounting
How following good business practice can help you avoid false accounting and prevent fraud.
Financing from friends and family: tax implications
Understand the tax implications of investment and interest-bearing borrowing from friends and family.
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.
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.
Forward foreign exchange contracts
When it's a good idea to agree to buy or sell a fixed amount of foreign currency on a set date.
Identify foreign exchange risks
Assessing the possible impact of exchange rate changes - and what you can do to minimise the risks.
Paper manufacturing energy efficiency
How to cut energy use and carbon emissions from paper and cardboard manufacture, and use alternative energy sources.
Metal manufacturing energy efficiency
How to reduce carbon emissions and fuel use in your metal-producing business, and using alternative energy supplies.
Paper and cardboard manufacturing carbon emissions reduction
How paper and cardboard producers can reduce their impact on the environment by reducing carbon emissions.
Energy efficiency requirements for metal production
How to reduce energy use and keep control of energy costs at your metal production and processing sites.
Metal manufacturing carbon emissions reduction
How metal producers can reduce their impact on the environment by reducing working to take action on carbon emissions.
Metal manufacturing furnace efficiency
How to use your furnaces efficiently to save energy and money in metal production and processing facilities.