Business Information at your Fingertips

Please note, we are in the process of updating our factsheets. The factsheets currently available are for the 2009/2010 year.

General Business

  1. Directors' Responsabilities

    The office of director should not be accepted lightly. It carries with it a number of duties and responsibilities. We summarise these complex provisions below. Recently, the introduction of the Companies Act 2006 has brought about a number of changes for directors which you must be aware of.

  2. Preparing For Your Accountant

    Whether we are producing your accounts or carrying out your annual audit, being prepared for us will ensure our work is carried out smoothly and efficiently and with the minimum disruption to yourselves.

  3. Company Secretarial Duties

    In this factsheet, we outline the company secretarial matters which need to be dealt with by your company under the Companies Act 2006, whether you have officially appointed a company secretary or not.

  4. Grants

    Obtaining finance is not always easy especially if yours is a small business and particularly if it is a recent start-up. Borrowing may be difficult due to lack of security. A grant may be the answer.

  5. Valuing Your Business

    There are many reasons why you may need to calculate the value of your business. Here we consider the range of methods available as well as some of the factors to consider during the process. It is important to remember throughout that valuing a business is something of an art, albeit an art backed by science!

  6. Fraud and How to Spot It

    Major corporate frauds and collapses hit the headlines from time to time and many of these were high profile and the amounts involved quite spectacular.