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HR

  1. Staff handbook and HR policies
  2. Different types of staff
  3. Hiring staff
  4. Staff contracts
  5. Changing or adding to staff contracts
  6. Grievances and disciplinary procedure
  7. Staff dismissals, redundancy and furlough leave
  8. Staff resignations and retirement
  9. Legal action by and against staff
  10. Enrolling staff into a pension scheme
  11. Pregnancy, maternity and adoption
  12. Paternity and shared parental leave
  13. Holiday leave and career breaks
  14. Sickness absence
  15. Time off for appointments, caring and public duties
  16. Staff working hours and pay
  17. Staff flexible working and working from home
  18. Appraisals, bonuses and promotions
  19. Staff social events and parties
  20. TUPE transfers

Health and safety

  1. Insurance to cover health and safety risks
  2. Health and safety risk assessments
  3. Health and safety policy
  4. Providing a safe and healthy workplace
  5. Health and safety training for staff
  6. Fire safety and emergency procedures
  7. Reducing health and safety risks
  8. Dealing with accidents and illness
  9. Investigations and prosecutions

Selling a business

  1. Different ways of selling a business
  2. Preparing a business for sale

Data protection and the UK GDPR

  1. Introduction to the GDPR
  2. Using personal data, policies and record-keeping
  3. Sharing personal data
  4. Storing personal data securely
  5. Data protection issues when monitoring staff
  6. Staff records
  7. Individuals' access to personal data
  8. Data breaches

Occupying business premises

  1. Running a business from home
  2. Choosing premises and negotiating terms
  3. Repairs and alterations
  4. Changing the use of business premises
  5. Dealing with service charges
  6. Renewing a business tenancy
  7. Leaving business premises

Sales and commercial agreements

  1. Terms and conditions of sale
  2. Business collaborations
  3. Consultancy agreements
  4. Customer service
  5. Direct marketing
  6. Advertising, labelling and pricing
  7. Dealing with personal data during sales
  8. Suppliers and subcontractors
  9. VAT, invoicing and payments

Starting a business

  1. Partnerships
  2. Setting up a new company
  3. Shareholders' agreement
  4. Memorandum and articles of association
  5. VAT registration
  6. Choosing a company name
  7. Choosing and appointing a company's first directors
  8. Choosing and appointing a company secretary
  9. Issuing a company's first shares
  10. Choosing a company's registered office
  11. Business licences

Late payments and disputes

  1. Chasing payments and enforcement
  2. Handling and resolving disputes
  3. Small claims and letter before action

Operating a website

  1. Privacy and cookies
  2. Website content and terms of use
  3. Terms and conditions for online sales
  4. Customer service for online sales

Directors' appointment and responsibilities

  1. Directors' agreements
  2. Appointment of new directors
  3. Directors' duties, liabilities and insurance
  4. Directors' conflicts of interest
  5. Removal and resignation of directors

Company secretarial, shares and admin

  1. Board and shareholder decisions
  2. Signing documents on behalf of a company
  3. Annual filings, accounts and reports
  4. Maintaining a company's books and records
  5. Company stationery
  6. Changing a company's name
  7. Changing a company's articles of association
  8. Changing a company's registered office
  9. Appointment, resignation and removal of a company secretary
  10. Dividends and other distributions
  11. Transferring shares
  12. Issuing new shares
  13. Reduction of capital
  14. Buying back shares from existing shareholders

Financing a business

  1. Raising money from debts
  2. Different ways of raising money
  3. Preparing a business to raise money
  4. Choosing and approaching new share investors
  5. Agreeing terms for a new share investment
  6. Choosing a loan
  7. Choosing a lender
  8. Agreeing terms for a loan

Intellectual property and confidentiality

  1. NDAs and protecting confidential information
  2. Names and logos: Trade marks
  3. Writing, music, pictures and code: Copyright
  4. Designs: Design rights
  5. Inventions: Patents
  6. Using someone else's intellectual property
  7. Disputes about intellectual property