Small Business Handbook Book and eBook

Name: Small Business Handbook Book and eBook
Brand: Lawpack
SKU: 130

£26.99

Reference: 9781910143155

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United Kingdom - Book

United Kingdom - eBook

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The Small Business Handbook is packed full of all the business management tips you need to help you run your business efficiently and get your business administration in order.

The aim of this handbook is to help you administer your business and make it less of a chore.

Whether it’s a simple introduction to the generalities of business law, or what you have to know if you are going to employ people, or keep on the right side of the taxman, this handbook will act as a useful ‘toolkit’ to help you run your business.

Easy administration for the small business

This business management handbook is packed full of tips and expert information a small business needs to help you comply with all the legislation that comes with running a business, including:

Company law
Law of contract
Data protection
Employment law
Health and safety
Intellectual property law
Business partnership law
Tax law

Plus much, much more.

How to run a business more efficiently

The Small Business Handbook also provides guidance on how you can run your business more efficiently, especially in these tough economic times.

How to keep tabs on the finances
How to keep on the right side of the taxman
How to manage your staff effectively
Getting the right business insurance
Assessing the value of the business

Plus step-by-step advice on how to buy and sell a business.

Business management templates

Unlike other business management books, the Small Business Handbook shows you how you actually go about the tasks it suggests, using the many practical and common sense tips, templates and checklists, for when you find yourself encountering some new and unfamiliar activity as you run your business.

A chapter full of 75 business management templates, tips and checklists are included:

Suggested terms of business
Heads of agreement for a partnership agreement
Suggested shareholder's agreement
Non-disclosure agreement
Sample suggested terms of employment
Sample full business plan
Cash flow forecast sheet
Budget sheet
Customer survey template

And much, much more...

Technical Specifications

Small Business Handbook Contents 1. Running a business

The basic rules of running a business
Sales
Expenses
Choosing a business structure
Banking arrangements
Whom should you contact about your business?
Business stationery to be organised
Terms and conditions of sale
Office equipment

2. Buying a business

Why buy a business rather than set one up from scratch?
Should you buy a business in trouble?
What are you buying?
How to value a business
Buying shares in a limited company
What is due diligence?
Ways of paying for the business
The required legal documents
Making sure that the business doesn’t die the day you take it over

3. Business law

Anti-trust laws
Bankruptcy – insolvency
Bribery Act
Company law
Consumer credit
Law of contract
Cyber law
Data protection
Employment law including tax law on paying wages
Equal opportunities
Estoppel
Fraud
Health and safety
Intellectual property law
International trade law
Non-disclosure agreement
Partnership law
Product liability
Property law
Sale of Goods Act
Tax law
The law of tort

4. Employment law

Employment contracts
PAYE
Interviewing for new employees
Statutory pay, maternity pay and paternity pay
Sickness absence
Training and time off for training
Retirement age
Holidays
Public and Bank Holidays
Discipline
Grievances
Equal pay
Agency workers
Discrimination
Dismissal and length of notice
Employment tribunals
National Minimum Wage (NMW)
Pensions and pension reform
Working Time Directive
Overtime
Changes to patterns of work

5. Business finance 6. Business insurance

Disclosure

7. Selling a business

Planning your sale
Who is advising you over the sale?
Valuing your business
Finding a buyer
The tax implications on selling a business
How can you reduce the tax payable?

8. Management tips, templates and checklists (TTCs)

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