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Measure your financial performance
Use common financial performance measures, such as profit margins and accounting ratios, to review your business finances
Employee focused performance measurement
Tools and techniques to measure and manage your employee performance more effectively
Benchmark your business performance
Use benchmarking to measure your business performance against that of your competitors as a focus for your growth strategy
Set business performance targets
How to move from performance measurement to target-setting in order to help your business improve and grow
Customer focused performance measurement
How to gather and manage information to help your business attract, retain and sell to customers
Competitor analysis
Performance metrics you can use to analyse your competitors, and how to use this information to inform your business decisions
Implementing a strategic plan
How to implement and execute your strategic plan, and monitor performance against your business' strategic objectives
Grow your business - find a case study
Local businesses tell their stories of growth, share strategies for success, and explain how they manage performance and risks
Self Assessment if you're self-employed
Requirements for Self Assessment if you are self-employed
Growing a successful business - OutsideIn
David Johnston, founder and CEO of OutsideIn, explains how his company has grown and shares key lessons from its journey.
Set up a basic record-keeping system
What you need to record and for how long, with step-by-step guidance on setting up your own system.
Make best use of standards
Introduction to the different technical, management and best practice standards, and their benefits to your business
Understand business taxes - top support resources
Top resources to help you better understand and be more confident in dealing with your business taxes
Working out your Corporation Tax
Corporation Tax rates and reliefs and how to calculate Corporation Tax
Templates for record-keeping
Download free templates that can help your business with record-keeping
Tobacco Products Duty: moving and storing goods
Requirements for moving and storing goods and Tobacco Products Duty
Tax when giving to charity
How to make gifts to charity and claim relief on giving, tax relief rules for sponsoring a charity and how Payroll Giving works
Tax payment problems
Get help if you can’t pay your tax bill on time and the consequences if you don’t pay your tax bill
Tobacco Products Duty: introductory guides
What is Tobacco Products Duty, what you must do when selling duty-free or duty-paid and import requirements
Subcontractors and CIS
Requirements for subcontractors under the Construction Industry Scheme