Directors' Briefings
The Directors' Briefings and Start-up Briefings cover over 200 topics, and can be downloaded and copied free of charge. If you want clear, practical advice on core business issues, Directors' Briefing is the answer.
Directors' Briefing is a series of almost 100 four-page briefings, aimed at established and growing businesses. For concise, practical advice on core business issues, browse our collection written for the busy director and entrepreneur.
Corporate Finance
- Buying a Business
- Floating Your Company
- Planning your exit from your business
- Selling a business
- Valuing a Business
Exporting and Importing
Finance
- Budgeting
- Business Angels
- Car Finance
- Credit Control
- Debt Recovery
- Factoring and Invoice Discounting
- Finance for Non-Financial Managers
- Financing Equipment
- Finding Information on the Internet
- Getting a Grant for Your Business
- Insolvency
- Interest on Late Payments
- Key Dates for the Tax Year
- Managing Your Cashflow
- Managing Your Creditors
- Overdrafts and Bank Loans
- Payroll
- Preparing for Your Annual Accounts
- Subsidised and Guaranteed Loans
- The Euro
- Venture Capital
HR Management
- An Email Policy for Your Employees
- An Internet Policy for Your Employees
- Assertiveness
- Communicating with Employees
- Company Pension Schemes
- Discipline and Grievance Issues
- Discrimination
- Dismissing Employees
- Employees Who Work from Home
- Employment Contracts
- Employment Tribunals
- Everyday Workplace Policies
- Executive Pensions
- Graduate Recruitment
- Incentive Pay
- Interviewing
- Investors in People
- Leadership
- Managing Change
- Managing Your Time
- Minimum Wage and Statutory Pay Obligations
- Motivating Employees
- NVQ's
- Performance Appraisals
- Personal Development Plans
- Personal Pension Schemes
- Recruitment
- Redundancy
- Remuneration
- Rights for Working Parents and Carers
- Sickness Issues and SSP
- Stakeholder Pensions
- Stress Management
- Teambuilding
- The Law on Flexible Working
- Using Training Effectively
- Using a Consultant
- Working Time Regulations
IT
- Choosing Accounting Software
- Computer Printers
- Designing Your Website
- Getting the Most Out of Your PC
- Going Online
- IT Disaster Prevention
- Internet Service Providers
- Intranets
- Maintaining Your IT System
- Marketing on the Internet
- Mobile Computing
- Network Servers
- Networks and Communications
- Payroll Software
- Security and the Internet
- Setting up a Basic IT System
- Software Use and Your Legal Liabilities
- Specifying and Purchasing IT
- Telecoms for Competitive Advantage
- Trading on the Internet
- Useful Internet Sites
- Using Accounting Software
- Your Website Strategy
Insurance
- Insurance to Protect Your Business
- Litigation and Insurance
- Making an Insurance Claim
- Managing Insurance Risks
Law
- Being Sued
- Employment Law: The Basics
- Health and Safety
- Health and Safety Risk Assessment
- Intellectual Property
- New business law in 1999
- New business law in 2000
- New business law in 2001
- New business law in 2002
- New employment law in 1999
- New employment law in 2000
- New employment law in 2001
- New employment law in 2002
- Suing
- Website and Email Law
- Your Firm and the Data Protection Act
Marketing
- Advertising Strategy
- Building Customer Loyalty
- Creating a Brand
- Design
- Direct Mail
- Effective PR
- Exhibitions
- Marketing with Your Database
- Planning Your Marketing
- Pricing
- Research for Your Marketing
- Writing a Mailshot
- Writing an Advertisement
Property
Purchasing
Selling
- Managing Your Sales Team
- Negotiating a Sale
- Sales Presentations
- Selling Technique
- Your Sales Strategy
Strategy
- Benchmarking
- Cost Control
- Creating a Valuable Business
- Directors' responsibilities
- Effective Board Meetings
- Filing and Records Management
- Forming a Business
- ISO 9000
- Increasing Profitability
- Innovation
- Key Performance Indicators
- Key issues in running your business
- New Product Development
- Role of the Company Secretary
- SWOT analysis
- Strategic Acquisitions
- Writing a Business Plan
- Your Business and the Environment
- Your Money and Your Business
Tax