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Rate bills being sent to businesses and homes
Businesses and homes will begin to receive their rate bills from the start of the week beginning Monday 3 April 2023.
How business rates valuations are calculated
Valuation for newly built properties, alterations to an existing property, specialist schemes, and appealing your valuation.
Emergency rate relief for businesses affected by recent flooding
Relief for non-domestic rates on properties that have been flooded as well as support to help businesses temporarily relocate.
Energy Catalyst Round 10
Property changes and business rates
How making alterations to your property or the type of business you use them for can affect your business rates.
Exporting to the USA: five top tips
Some considerations before exporting to the USA.
Advantages and challenges of exporting to the USA
Be aware of the advantages and challenges of doing business in the USA
Sectoral opportunities in the USA
There are a number of sectors that could potentially offer some opportunities to Northern Ireland companies
Legal and financial checks when buying a business
Learn about the financial and legal checks you should make when considering buying a business.
Signing and completing the sale of a business
Details of the sale purchase contract and documentation, and the main tasks you must do to complete the sale.
Checklist: developing a product or service
Step-by-step list on how to develop new products or services, with a checklist of key things to consider before and during development
Improve your cashflow and business performance
Assess your business' performance. Assess and improve your business cashflow. Ensuring customers pay you on time. Recover your debts. Avoid insolvency. How to turn your business around.
SWOT, PESTLE and other models for strategic analysis
Introduction to the common business analysis models, including SWOT and PESTLE analysis, scenario planning and Porter's Five Forces framework
Deciding which key performance indicators to measure
Focus on the key drivers of your business to make your measurement and target-setting much more effective
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
Use KPIs to assess business performance
How to select key performance indicators that are well-defined and quantifiable to measure your business performance
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