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Starting a business - find a case study
A range of case studies from local entrepreneurs who have started successful businesses
Buy or sell a business - find a case study
Case studies focusing on companies that have been bought, sold or fanchised
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
Sales ledger
The basics of using a sales ledger to monitor the money coming into your business.
Purchase ledger
What to record in a purchase ledger to keep track of how much money you owe.
Wages book
The value of maintaining a wages book and how to manage it if you employ staff.
Digital financial records
Reasons for keeping computer-based financial records and how to choose bookkeeping and accounting software packages.
Record-keeping best practice
Good record keeping habits and the "four S" approach: system, separate, security, storage.
What should my record-keeping system include?
The legal requirements for a record-keeping system.
Self Assessment if you're self-employed
Requirements for Self Assessment if you are self-employed
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.
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