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Banking overseas and UK-based foreign currency accounts
Pros and cons of opening an overseas bank account or a UK-based foreign currency account to hedge your risks
Buying currency options
The pros and cons of buying currency options and how it might help your business hedge foreign exchange risks
Foreign currency transactions and bookkeeping
How making and receiving payments in foreign currencies can affect your accounts
Support for protecting your ideas
Get professional help from intellectual property advisers, a patent attorney or a trade mark attorney to protect your intellectual property in an invention
Who is involved in an e-commerce project?
An overview of the range of interested parties involved in an e-commerce project including marketing and IT and external suppliers
Set up a staff incentive scheme
Steps employers can take to set up incentive and perks schemes
Ensuring the staff incentive scheme is successful
How to evaluate your staff incentive scheme and ensure it works effectively
Types of risk your business faces
Understand the main types of business risk - what they mean and how they can affect your business
Strategic risk
What is strategic risk management and how to identify and mitigate strategic risks in your business
Financial risk
Understand the main types of financial risks to your business and find ways to mitigate and reduce them
What does copyright cover?
Types of work you can protect by copyright, and how to use this legal right to protect your intellectual property
How can copyright help my business?
Copyright can provide an important source of income for your business – here’s how to profit from your copyright
How do I get copyright protection for my work?
Understand how to secure copyright protection for your original work and show that copyright belongs to you
Financing new product or service development
How to finance new product or service development, assess various funding options and analyse the costs involved in bringing your product to market
How to protect new product ideas
Different ways in which you can protect your new product or service ideas and concepts
Test the market
How to develop ideas through the process of prototyping, market testing, brand building and pricing
Appoint advisers for successful flotation
The advisers you need for a flotation including corporate advisers, stockbrokers, corporate lawyers and accountants
How to license a patent
How to license a patent and grant the right to another person or business to use your patent, and what benefits you can gain from it
What is a patent?
What are patents, how do they protect your inventions and how can you use patent rights to benefit your business
Can I patent my idea or invention?
You may be able to get a patent if your idea or invention meets the criteria for a patent - to qualify it must be new, inventive and industrially applicable