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Company addresses
What types of addresses can be used as your registered company address including your home address or a PO Box
Appoint directors and a company secretary
Rules for appointing a company director and a company secretary and an overview of their legal responsibilities
Foundation degrees explained for employers
A Foundation degree is a higher education qualification mainly delivered in local colleges which combines academic and work-related learning.
Assess your skills and resources for exporting
Exporting demands extra time, money and skills.
Financial planning and accounts
Business budgeting. Financial and management accounts: the basics. Set up a simple profit and loss account for your business. Balance sheets: the basics. Set up a basic record-keeping system. Investment appraisal techniques. ...
Business exit strategy: close your business
Overview of the circumstances in which you may close your business and the practicalities of how to go about it.
Information a statutory demand should contain
The required contents of a statutory demand, and the forms you need to use
What to do if you are served with a statutory demand
Your options if you receive a statutory demand, and the grounds for a demand to be dismissed
Funding support for creative businesses
Sources of funding support for creative businesses in Northern Ireland.
What does importing involve?
Dealing with suppliers, controlling risk, handling import paperwork and foreign currencies.
Business budgeting
The importance of managing a budget as part of your business planning and how to create one.
Consultation on revising building control fees
Proposals to uplift the building control fees as an interim measure, alongside a wholesale review, are open for public comment
Insurance for exporting and importing
Potential risks of exporting and importing, and how to insure against them.
Credit checking your customers and setting credit limits
How to ensure that business customers pay their bills on time and why you should pay your bills on time.
IP rights: copyright
What is copyright, when does it apply, and how you can use it to protect your intellectual property
IP rights: trade marks
What are trade marks, and how to register trade marks to protect your brand, products or business
IP rights: designs
An overview of design as an intellectual property asset and advice on how to use unregistered and registered designs to secure your IP
IP rights: patents
What is a patent, how to apply for one, and how to use and enforce it to protect your business' intellectual property
Sales ledger
The basics of using a sales ledger to monitor the money coming into your business.
What should my record-keeping system include?
The legal requirements for a record-keeping system.