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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.
Conducting research when buying a business
How to research and analyse information on an existing business you are thinking of buying.
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.
How to claim business expenses
How to keep on top of your business records in order to claim your business allowable expenses with HMRC.
Manage the risks of exporting
Learn how you can identify and manage export risks.
Getting paid when exporting
Guidance on reducing risks associated with receiving payments from selling goods or services internationally.
Developing an up-to-date business plan - AKC Home Support Services
Case study with Darren Jones, who shares his experience of writing a business plan when he launched his care business.
Export licences and certificates
Licences, certificates and special rules for taking goods out of the UK
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