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Financial and management accounts
How to use financial and management accounts, analytical accounting tools and reduce the risk of fraud.
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.
Identify areas for improvement in your business
Get ready to tender for contracts by improving your business, identify areas for improvement and take action
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.
Does my business need a consumer credit licence?
If you sell on credit, lend money, issue credit cards, collect debts or give debt advice, you may need a consumer credit licence to operate.
How to apply for a consumer credit licence
You can apply for consumer credit licensing from the Financial Conduct Authority who will assess your fitness on factors such as competence and past offences.
How to claim business expenses
How to keep on top of your business records in order to claim your business allowable expenses with HMRC.
Implement changes to improve your business
Making the right changes to your business to improve prospects when competing for contracts and preparing to tender
Best practice in employment and improving skills
Improve your chances of winning contract work by developing your staff and using best practice in employment when preparing to tender
Improve health and safety in your business
Set high standards in health and safety to compete successfully for contract work when preparing your business to tender
Demonstrate good environmental compliance
Show your environmental credentials to become a more attractive business to contractors in Northern Ireland when preparing your business for tender
Diversify your farm business
How to add new and innovative business ideas to your farming business to raise income, with an overview of local support
Business premises and rates in Northern Ireland
Finding the right property for your business and paying rates in Northern Ireland
Find contracts and tender successfully
Put your business in the best position to find and win tender competitions in Northern Ireland, Great Britain, Republic of Ireland and the EU
Advantages of doing business in Mid and East Antrim
The business environment, infrastructure and benefits of setting up a business in the Mid and East Antrim area
Build your own business network
Create and make the most of an informal business network in Northern Ireland
What networks are available to Northern Ireland businesses?
Business networking events hosted by business support organisations across Northern Ireland