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Continuous improvement for better profitability
Importance of reviewing productivity and market trends, and analysing your business performance, to maintain the profitability of your business.
Reduce business costs to increase profits
Analyse your direct and indirect business costs to control and reduce expenditure and maximise your profit.
Enter new markets to increase profits
Increase your profitability by extending your products and services into new sectors or territories.
Improve productivity to increase profits
Understand the relationship between productivity and profitability - their differences and impact on your business' bottom line.
Target your most profitable customers
How to identify your best customers and sell more products or services to those customers that will deliver the most profit.
Strategies to increase sales revenue
Try these strategies to increase your sales and boost the profitability of your customers, product lines and business.
Calculate your profit margins
How to work out your gross profit margin and your net profit, and use these measures to increase revenue and profitability of your business.
VAT rules for particular trades
Understand the VAT rules and rates for trades including builders, plumbers, plasterers and car dealers
Have your say on the draft Tourism Strategy for Northern Ireland
The Department for the Economy has launched a public consultation on a draft Tourism Strategy for Northern Ireland which outlines a plan to increase the value of tourism.
Inform and consult your employees
The types, benefits and legal obligations of consultation and communication.
Legal requirements for communicating with employees
Understand your legal requirements for communicating with employees.
Advantages of good employee communication
Benefits of communicating effectively with your employees.
Is private equity investment right for your business?
How to work out if private equity investment is right for your business
Consulting your employees
Consultation that is required by law and voluntary consultation.
Find the right private equity investor
How to find out which investors to approach and make sure you're ready for investment.
Value your business for investment
How to value your business and methods of valuation used by private equity businesses
ICE Regulations: pre-existing agreements and fall-back provisions
How pre-existing consultation agreements and fall-back provisions affect I&C agreements.
The Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005
How the ICE Regulations work, including pre-existing agreements and the fall-back provisions.
ICE Regulations: enforcement, protections and confidential information
Enforcement mechanisms in the ICE Regulations.
Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees (TICE) Regulations 1999
The TICE Regulations apply to multinational businesses operating in the European Economic Area.