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Ensure customers pay you on time
Actions you can take if a payment you are due is late.
Tailor your business plan to secure funding
How to adapt your business plan and present it to the right people in order to secure funding.
Accepting online payments
How online payments work and how to set up a payment facility.
Company liquidation
An overview of company liquidation including advice on both voluntary and compulsory liquidation.
London Stock Exchange: AIM
How AIM can help your business raise funds, and the benefits, and process of joining the market.
Recover debt through Court
Your options when trying to obtain money owed to you and the procedures involved when taking your claim to court.
Complain against an insolvency practitioner or the Insolvency Service
How to make a formal complaint against The Insolvency Service if you are unhappy with the service received.
Financial and management accounts
How to use financial and management accounts, analytical accounting tools and reduce the risk of fraud.
Skills and training for directors and owners
The key skills needed by business owners and directors and how these skills can be developed.
Grants: the basics
How to find a grant that suits your business and what makes a business eligible to receive one.
Using payment cards for your business
Advice on using payment cards for business expenditure and on increasing sales by accepting cards from customers.
Make yourself bankrupt
The bankruptcy process and your duties if you make yourself bankrupt.
Choose an insurance adviser for your business
How to create a clear report of your health and safety risks in order to find the right insurance broker.
Wind up a limited company that owes you money
How creditors can use compulsory winding-up orders to attempt to recover monies owed by an insolvent company.
Skills required by growing businesses
How the complexity and variety of skills your business needs to access increase as your business grows.
Building a management team
Key considerations when building an effective management team for your business.
Business insurance: the basics
Details of the different types of insurance for businesses and finding a broker.
Delegation skills for business owners and directors
Why effective delegating of business tasks can be efficient time management and how to best go about it.
Managing your team
Discover the skills that make for successful team management.
Skills and training for company directors
Extra training that may be needed to fulfil the duties of a company director.