| Business Factsheets |
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| Accounts Made Easy |
| Information is the key to understanding the successes and failures of your business and the key to making appropriate business decisions to avoid future failures and capitalise on successes. |
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| Getting Paid |
| When you keep your side of the bargain with a customer, it is only fair that they should keep theirs by paying you... and paying you on time. Sadly, as everyone in business knows, this doesn’t always happen. |
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| How to Double the Effectiveness of Your Advertising |
| This message was written by the one of the UK's leading marketing Gurus, Drayton Bird. In it Drayton gives 24 ideas to double the power of your advertising. And it is a subject that he is uniquely qualified to talk about since his business, The Drayton Bird Partnership, handles direct mail and other marketing activities for clients that include Mercedes Benz, Gallaher Tobacco, Sodastream, Barclays Finance, and American Express. He is the author of "Commonsense Direct Marketing" - which is ... |
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| How to Add Value to Your Service |
| Becoming better value ie increasing value by cutting prices - or, more accurately, by reducing your perceived prices by more than you reduce your perceived benefits. |
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| Winning Price Wars |
| When competitors cut their prices the temptation is, of course, to cut yours too. But that sort of behaviour can quickly turn into a price war. And while that might be good news for customers in the short run, unless you actually want to throw away your profits, it certainly won't be good news for you. |
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| How to Make Yours the Most Profitable Business Card in Town |
For years and years highly paid business gurus have been coming over from the USA telling us that our single most important marketing tools - our business cards - are, to put it politely, rubbish. You've probably been at one of their seminars when they ask everyone to hold up a business card… and then proceed to tell you why they are all pathetic.
And, even more annoyingly, they were probably right! |
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| Headline Generator |
| How to write great headlines for your press releases and marketing material. |
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| How to Cut Your Costs |
| Almost every business goes through the annual ritual of budgeting for, or forecasting, its sales and expenses over the next year. Unfortunately this ritual often misses a golden opportunity. Used properly, budgets are not only useful for monitoring performance, they can actually help to reduce costs. |
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| How to Explode With Growth |
| Every business is made up of a series of processes that converts inputs into outputs. One of the keys to making your business more successful is to identify your most important processes, and then do everything you can to improve the conversion rate so that you get more output from every input. It's as simple, and as difficult, as that! |
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| Planning to Step Down From Your Business |
| Experience shows that the sooner you start planning for the day you are eventually going to step down from your business, the easier and more rewarding your departure will be. Through our work with hundreds of successful businesses we have discovered that answering these seven questions is an excellent way to kick-start the process of planning for a smooth and profitable exit. |
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| How to Promote Your Business for Pennies |
| There are many clever technical definitions of PR - but in essence it is the art of publicising your business at little or no financial cost. How? By harnessing the fact that newspapers and magazines need to fill their column inches with news as well as advertising. |
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| The Secrets of Pricing for Profit |
Economists claim that prices are set by markets. But they are wrong.
Prices are set by people running businesses. People like you. And they are among the most important decisions you will ever make. Get them right and you could be on the road to fame and fortune. But get them wrong and your business will be doomed to failure.
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| Unique Selling Proposition Generator |
| To be truly successful a business needs at least one Unique Selling Propositions ("USP"). It also needs to do everything possible to make sure that its USPs are recognised and understood by its customers. |
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| Compare your business against the DTI's "Winning" report |
| The DTI's classic study Winning found that the best UK companies share five common characteristics. Use this checklist to discover what those key success factors are, how your business compares with them and what you can do about it. |
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| Online Forms |
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| Download Adobe Acrobat Reader |
| To view these forms you need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your PC. You can install this for free by clicking on the link above. |
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| 64-8 |
| Authorising your agent |
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| CWF1 |
| Becoming self employed and registering for National Insurance contributions and/or tax |
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| CH2 |
| Child benefit claim form |
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| P11D(b) |
| Return of class 1a national insurance contributions due |
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| P11DX |
| Dispensation for expenses payments and benefits in kind |
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| P46 |
| Notice of new employee |
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| P46: Car |
| Car provided for the private use of an employee or director |
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| CT41G (Clubs) |
| Corporation tax - details of clubs, societies, voluntary associations and other similar bodies |
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| VAT1 |
| Application for registration |
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| VAT7 |
| Application to cancel your VAT registration |
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| VAT68 |
| Request for transfer of a registration number |
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| AA01 |
| Change of accounting reference date |
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| AA02 |
| Dormant Company Accounts (DCA) |
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| AD02 |
| Notification of single alternative inspection location (SAIL) |
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| AD03 |
| Change of location of the company records to the single alternative inspection location (SAIL) |
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| AD04 |
| Change of location of the company records to the registered office |
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| AD01 |
| Change of registered office address |
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| AP01 |
| Appointment of director |
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| AP02 |
| Appointment of corporate director |
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| AP03 |
| Appointment of secretary |
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| AP04 |
| Appointment of corporate secretary |
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| TM01 |
| Termination of appointment of director |
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| TM02 |
| Termination of appointment of secretary |
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| CH01 |
| Change of director's details |
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| CH02 |
| Change of corporate director's details |
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| CH03 |
| Change of secretary's details |
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| CH04 |
| Change of corporate secretary's details |
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| DS01 |
| Striking off application by a company |
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| DS02 |
| Withdrawal of striking off application by a company |
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| IN01 |
| Application to register a company |
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| LQ01 |
| Notice of appointment of an administrative receiver, receiver or manager |
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| MG01 |
| Particulars of a mortgage or charge |
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| MG02 |
| Statement of satisfaction in full or in part of mortgage or charge |
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| SH01 |
| Return of allotment of shares |
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| SH03 |
| Return of purchase of own shares |
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| SH06 |
| Notice of cancellation of shares |
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| SH08 |
| Notice of name or other designation of class of shares |
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| LL IN01 |
| Application for the incorporation of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) |
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| LL AP01 |
| Appointment of member of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) |
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| LL AP02 |
| Appointment of corporate member of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) |
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| LL CH01 |
| Change of details of a member of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) |
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| LL CH02 |
| Change of details of a corporate member of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) |
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| LL TM01 |
| Termination of appointment of member of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) |
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| LL AA01 |
| Change of accounting reference date of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) |
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| LL AD01 |
| Change of Registered Office Address of Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) |
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| LL AD02 |
| Notification of the single alternative inspection location (SAIL) of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) |
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| LL AD03 |
| Change of location of the records to the single alternative inspection location (SAIL) of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) |
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| LL AR01 |
| Annual Return of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) |
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| LL DE01 |
| Notice of change of status of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) |
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| LL NM01 |
| Notice of change of name of a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) |
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| LL DS01 |
| Striking off application by a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) |
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| LL MG01 |
| Particulars of a mortgage or charge created by a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) |
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| Publications |
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| The Richer Way |
| Key thoughts from one of Britain's rising entrepreneurial stars |
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| Against the Odds |
| Learn how and why Dyson refused to accept the self-limiting beliefs of his peers and competitors alike |
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| Gung Ho! |
| If you've read Ken Blanchard's "Raving Fans" book then here is the companion book on how to turn your employees into raving fans. |
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| The Secrets of Communication |
| Both of Peter's companies lead the UK field in corporate and personal development strategy. This book will give you some serious insights into how and why developing your communication skills is so crucial to your business |
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| Personal Factsheets |
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| Your Home and Taxation |
| Many people rent out part of their home - whether to an individual or to a business. There are a number of tax implication of doing this which must be considered. Remember that tax relief on interest on loans to buy your home has now been abolished (ie MIRAS). |
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| Tax Free Savings |
| We all like to pay as little tax as possible and here are some tax efficient ways to save money (and tax!). If you do not want the tax saved for yourself then you can always make a gift to a charity and possibly save even more tax. |
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| Market Information |
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| RPIs |
| Historical retails price index |
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| Rates & Allowances |
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| Calculators |
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| Working from Home Expenses Calculator |
| From time to time, many of us work from home. If this is a regular occurrence, then you may be able to claim an element of your household bills as a tax expense. |
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| APR Calculator |
| This calculator assumes that interest is compounded monthly. |
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| VAT Calculator |
| Calculate the VAT that has been paid or will be paid on amounts entered. |
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| Payslip Calculator |
| This payslip calculator performs monthly calculations on a Month 1 basis. |
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