All "invoices" articles
- Getting the stationery right
- Trivial as it might sound, getting your company stationery right means complying with legal requirements. Andrew Small of Franaccounts takes you through it...
- See more in: stationery, guides, start a business, startups, legal
- A guide to raising business finance
- A guide to the different types of business finance available to small business, from corporate law solicitor Mary Erb.
- See more in: finance, capital, funding, money, mezzanine, overdrafts, loans, invoice discounting, venture capital, VCs, asset finance, banks, business angels, grants, flotation, guides
- Bad debt: the zero-tolerance approach
- No-nonsense advice on handling bad business debt during the credit crunch.
- See more in: bad debt, credit crunch, credit squeeze, credit control, credit, debt, invoices, disputes, solicitor, legal, guides, cash flow
- How long should you keep books and records?
- Andrew Small, Joint Managing Director at Franaccounts, answers the question for you.
- See more in: tax, legal, books, records, VAT, PAYE, guides
- Personal phone calls cost business £1m a day
- Business phones are being abused for personal use suggests new research.
- See more in: mobile phones, VAT, tax, telecom expense management, HR, news
- Choosing the right franchise
- Only fools rush in, as they say. Brian McLelland advises against ploughing your savings into the first franchise that comes along.
- See more in: franchises, buy a franchise, franchisees, franchisors, due dilligence, guides
- Driver Hire – drivers for hire
- Given that the market for hiring drivers is growing and Driver Hire has just been crowned the UK's top franchisor, there's every reason to consider buying into this brand.
- See more in: buy a franchise, franchises, franchisor, automotive, services, hire, drivers, interviews
- How I bought... a financial software company
- Having started a small business before, David had an idea: to bypass the start-up phase and buy a proven company.
- See more in: financial, buy a business, interviews, software, interviews, technology, business to business, b2b
- 10 tips for business success
- By Bill Kirkwood, CEO of Site Confidence, a website performance monitoring company.
- See more in: tips, guides
- How we started… a skate-ramp hire company
- There’s nothing better than turning your hobby into a business, as two skateboarders from Hertfordshire can testify.
- See more in: Skateboarding, BMX, skate ramps, vert ramps, event management, events, hire, festivals,
- Conducting due dilligence
- After signing an agreement in principle, but before signing a binding contract, you need to conduct a comprehensive MOT - to use a motoring analogy - of the business.
- See more in: buy a business, due dilligence, guides
- Company formation checklist
- A guide to the key decisions you have to make when forming your company. By Brian McLelland, solicitor and Managing Director at Business Lawyers Ltd.
- See more in: legal, company formation, startups, start a business, guides
- Call for content-management standardisation
- A lack of standardisation in enterprise content management is fundamentally compromising the value of ECM investments, insists Ben Richmond, CEO and Founder of The Content Group.
- See more in: business, standards, ECM, standardisation, Vendors, technology, enterprise content management, strategies, implementation, the content group, ben richmond
- Bookshops
- Running a bookshop is the dream of many. But can it be profitable and worthwhile?
- See more in: retail, bookshops, bookstores, guides
- Yes – you can beat the credit squeeze
- A guide, written by an experienced finance broker, to managing your small-business finances while credit is hard to come by.
- See more in: credit crunch, credit squeeze, finance, brokers, finance brokers, banks, credit, guides