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Business banking
How to choose and manage a business bank account. Debit and credit cards for your business. Using payment cards to buy and sell goods or services. Accepting online payments. Foreign currency and exchange risks. ...
Importing basics
Thinking about importing? Find out if your business is ready and what steps you need to take
Classifying your goods
Learn how to classify your goods for import and export
Taking lorries abroad
Taking your lorry or bus abroad. The essentials of international road haulage. International authorisations and permits for road haulage. Vehicle documents required for international road haulage . Driver documents required for international road haulage.
Transporting dangerous goods
Moving dangerous goods. Driving dangerous goods and special loads abroad.
Freight forwarding
Using brokers and forwarders. Freight forwarding - moving goods.
Expert financial advice
Guides which can help your business to find the right financial advice for different common and specific issues.
Finance
Guidance on raising finance, finance options, managing finance, financial planning and accounts, managing cashflow, improving business performance and managing a business when economic conditions are tough
Export Controls and licences
Find out what controls and licences you need to be aware of when exporting and importing
Manufactured goods
Regulations for trading in manufactured goods
Tendering for contracts
Understand how tendering works, how to prepare your business to tender for contracts and present prices through estimates and quotations to your potential customers
Insurance
Get the right insurance for your business. Insure your business and assets - general insurances. Insure your business - people, life and health. Liability insurance. Insurance for international trade. ...
Debt recovery
Ensuring customers pay you on time. Recover your debts. Calculate the interest due on an unpaid debt. Formal requests for payment: statutory demands. Get help and advice about your debt problems. Recover debt through court. ...
Service industries
Overview of regulations for trading in services
Importing controlled goods
Importing solid ammonium nitrate in consignments of 500 kilograms or more. Importing animal furs, skins and fish. Offensive weapons and stopping imports of illegal weapons. Importing and exporting waste. ...
Managing suppliers and payments
Manage your suppliers. Invoicing and payment terms. Getting paid when selling overseas. Credit checking your customers and setting credit limits. Factoring and invoice discounting: the basics. Ensuring customers pay you on time. ...
Improve your cashflow and business performance
Assess your business' performance. Assess and improve your business cashflow. Ensuring customers pay you on time. Recover your debts. Avoid insolvency. How to turn your business around.
Manage your cashflow
Cashflow management: the basics. Decide whether to lease or buy assets. Identify potential cashflow problems. Invoicing and payment terms. Factoring and invoice discounting: the basics. Credit checking your customers and setting credit limits. ...
Managing financial difficulty
Guides which can help your business through financial problems to find resolutions to suit different circumstances.
Prepare to raise finance
What you can do to prepare your business to raise finance