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Business Administration
 Getting the Stationery Right
 How Long Should you Keep Books and Records?
 Dealing with Employee Absence
 Computer Comfort and Safety in the Workplace
 Insuring Your Business

Business General
 Employing Your Spouse
 Husband and Wife Businesses
 Tax Free Gifts to Staff
 National Minimum Wage
 Salary Sacrifice
 Childcare Provided by Employers
 Industrial Buildings Allowance
 Could Your Business Survive Without You?
 The Construction Industry Scheme from 6 April 2007
 Subcontractors and the new Construction Industry Scheme

Business Management
 How to Increase Your Profit
 Six Steps to an Effective Business Plan
 How to Present a Request for Finance to Your Bank
 How to Gain the Most out of Your Accounting Records
 Keeping an Eye on Your Cashflow
 How to Balance Your Bank Account
 Buy, HP, or Lease?
 The Value of Outsourcing

Business Startup
 Using Us as Your Business Adviser
 An Introduction to Running Your Own Business
 Preparing Your Business Plan
 Employed or Self Employed?
 Should You Form a Limited Company?
 Forming a Limited Company
 Buying a Company ‘Off the Shelf’
 Limited Liability Partnerships
 More about Limited Liability Partnerships
 Partnership Agreements
 An Introduction to the Tax System for the Self Employed
 Choosing Your Accounting Date

Limited Companies
 Forming a Limited Company
 The Law and Directors’ Responsibilities
 The Company Secretary
 The Companies Act 2006
 Statutory Records
 Audit Exemption
 An Introduction to Corporation Tax
 Corporation Tax Self Assessment
 Companies - Getting the Timing Right
 Company Bonus or Dividend
 How much Dividend can I Take?
 Employee Share Schemes
 Personal Service Companies
 Striking Off

PAYE & NI, Benefits in Kind
 An Introduction to PAYE
 Tax Free Gifts to Staff
 National Insurance Planning
 Minimising the Risk of Employer Compliance Visits
 Don’t Pay Too Much National Insurance
 Benefits in Kind and Expenses Payments
 Company Car Tax
 Payslips

Personal Taxation
 An Introduction to Self Assessment
 Planning for a Year’s Prosperity
 Making A Will and Other Related Matters
 Inheritance Tax Planning
 Does Your Estate Planning Pass the Test?
 Tax Aspects of Your Home
 Stamp Duties
 Separation & Divorce
 Why you Need an Enduring Power of Attorney
 Giving to Charity
 Interest and Tax Payments
 Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit
 Are you Still on Track for Retirement?
 Pension Credit
 The Child Trust Fund
 Supporting your Children

Savings & Investments
 Tax Efficient Investments
 Tax on Savings Income
 Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs)
 Tax Aspects of Property Investment
 Buy to Let Properties
 Capital Gains Tax Taper Relief
 Accumulation and Maintenance Trusts
 Stakeholder Pensions
 Pension Contributions and Tax Relief
 The New Pensions Regime

Self Employment
 Employed or Self Employed?
 An Introduction to the Tax System for the Self Employed
 Use of Vehicle Mileage Rates for the Self Employed

VAT
 An Introduction to VAT
 VAT Cash Accounting Scheme
 VAT Annual Accounting Scheme
 VAT Flat Rate Scheme
 VAT Bad Debt Relief
 VAT - How to Survive the Enforcement Powers
 Recovering VAT on Staff Expenses
 VAT Fuel Scale Charge
 Group VAT Registration