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Budget advice from the Microsoft small business centre
Microsoft offer their 8 steps on how to make your budget work.
Having trouble paying wages?
Wageroller facilities offer an additional source of funding for businesses by gearing payroll commitments rather than sales ledgers or other assets.
Assess the health of your business
This interactive tool from Business Link helps you analyse key areas of your business' finance and administration with the aim of avoiding failure.
Cash flow finance to drive your business
Drive your business forward using current sales and stock value with the help of the cash flow finance team at Bank of Scotland Corporate.
Online course on working to a budget
'Working to a Budget' is a basic introductory course which looks at the use of budgets, how they are produced and how they are used within an organisation.
Cashflow management: the basics
This guide to the basics of cash flow looks at how effective cash flow management will help protect the financial security of your business.
Other Small Business Finance Resources
The challenges of growth for small business
New business must be won by creating a good first impression with customers and procurement managers...
Creating a successful business plan
Setting out a plan for your business can seem like a daunting task, especially before you've even got it off the ground.
Top tips for startups
Every successful business has a few things they wish they'd known before they started...
How to be a start-up success
Marc Barber 07/08/2008
There are three common elements to a start-up successfully negotiating those tricky first few years: an honest appraisal of ability, market research, and finance. Have your say »
Inflation is King
Penny Proffit 19/06/2008
A look at inflation and why Mervyn King has had to put pen to paper... Have your say »
Basic building block of any Internet marketing campaign
Guest Blogger 07/07/2008
For almost all sectors of commerce today, the Internet, or more specifically the World Wide Web, is now a key tool for business. In the field of marketing in particular it has become crucial. (1 comments) Have your say »
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