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Growth through international trade
Key considerations to help you import, export and purse growth internationally
Growth through strategic partnering
Guidance on different partnering options for your business, including joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and how to work collaboratively with another business or institution
Considering selling a business
Selling or closing your business - an overview. Preparing to sell your business. Closing a business checklist. Value and market your business. Identifying, protecting and transferring your assets. Understanding contracts when buying or selling a business.
Businesses in difficulty
Assess your business' performance. Ensuring customers pay you on time. Insolvency: the basics. Avoid insolvency. Individual insolvency: find out your options for dealing with debt. Complain against an undischarged bankrupt or disqualified company director
Considering buying a business
Obtaining information on a business you are thinking of buying. Understanding contracts when buying or selling a business. Assess your business' performance. Consider your exit strategy when starting up. ...
Managing the welfare of people
Protecting your employees from risks and looking after their health and safety needs
Growth through strategic sourcing
Understand the importance of strategic sourcing, how to outsource, and choose and work with reliable suppliers to ensure the success of your business
Assessing current performance
How to measure your business performance, set the right targets and assess whether you should grow your business
Planning business growth
Guidance to help you prepare and plan for business growth, avoid common pitfalls, manage change and projects successfully, meet relevant standards and follow organisational best practice
Growth through product and service development
How to grow your business by developing new products or services
Growth through technology
Understand the key role technology can play in the development of your business
Service industries
Overview of regulations for trading in services
Importing controlled goods
Importing solid ammonium nitrate in consignments of 500 kilograms or more. Importing animal furs, skins and fish. Offensive weapons and stopping imports of illegal weapons. Importing and exporting waste. ...
Buying a business
Buy an existing business. Legal structures: the basics. Choose the right name for your business. Understanding contracts when buying or selling a business.
Business acquisitions and mergers
Mergers. Mergers and acquisitions.
Selling your business
Complete the sale of your business. Closing a business checklist. How to achieve an employee buyout. Responsibilities to employees if you buy or sell a business. Company and LLP strike-off, dissolution and restoration. ...
Transferring your business
Selling or passing a business to a family member. Consider your exit strategy when starting up. Succession planning and business transfer.
Check when you can account for import VAT on your VAT Return
If your business is registered for VAT in the UK, find out when you can, or need to, account for import VAT on your VAT Return (also called postponed VAT accounting)
Bringing live animals to NI from EU via the GB landbridge
The procedures to follow for transit of live animals moving from EU to Northern Ireland through GB only
Report goods exported to the EU using inward or outward processing
Check if you should submit information sheets (INFs) if you're a UK trader using customs special procedures for inward or outward processing