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Find money to start your business
Guides to help you through the tricky issues of finding and securing finance to start up your business
Trade with other countries
Guides on exporting and importing when starting up a business and the support available for trading internationally
IT for start-ups
Guides on how to integrate the right IT systems and infrastructure to help your business through the startup phase
Business rates
Rates for Northern Ireland businesses including guidance on how the non-domestic rates system works, financial help for rates, and how to estimate and pay your rate bill
Buy business property
Guidance and tips on buying business property in Northern Ireland including how to search for commercial property
Understand Tax and VAT when self-employed
Guides which can help ensure you understand your responsibilities when it comes to tax and VAT for your startup business
Manage business finances
Guides on why managing finance is an important part of starting and running your business
Family business
Understand the benefits and issues that affect family-run businesses, employing family members or financing from friends and family
Start-up business ideas
Guides and tools to help you find and develop ideas for ways to start up your own business in Northern Ireland
Hire professional services
Guides on how and why to hire professional service providers to help your business in the startup phase
Business planning
Guides on how to create a business plan for your startup and how business plans can be useful at different stages of your business
Rent business property
Guidance and tips on renting business property in Northern Ireland including commercial leases and landlord and tenant responsibilities
Starting a business - find a case study
A range of case studies from local entrepreneurs who have started successful businesses
Business premises and rates - find a case study
Insight into how real businesses deal with premises and property issues on a practical level
Starting my business from home - Angels and Butterflies Jewellery Designs (video)
Debbie Todd, owner of Angels and Butterflies Jewellery Designs, discusses how she started her business from home
Types of stock
The four main types of stock - raw materials and components, work in progress, finished goods and consumables
How much stock should you keep?
Advantages and disadvantages of keeping either plenty of stock or very little
Stock control methods
How to control stock through reviews, minimum levels, using batch control and first in first out systems
Disabled access and facilities in business premises
Information on what adjustments you can make to ensure your business is accessible to disabled people.
How to improve access for people with disabilities
Change policies and procedures to improve disabled people's access to your business premises, products, and services.