Business e-Books

Top tips on the little things you can do that make all the difference to business development: how to please your customers, improve the sales of your business and generate long-lasting customer loyalty.

301 Legal Forms, Letters and Agreements will help you get it in writing. It contains a legal form for practically every home and business need.
 

This is a handy guide to book-keeping for new business start-ups. 

This book is different from most on bookkeeping because it's written primarily for the entrepreneur.

Whilst students and those entering book-keeping and accountancy careers for the first time may find it of interest, it's not a textbook. It's really aimed at small business owners. Apart from showing how to set up accounting records and explaining the jargon used by those in the profession, it also demonstrates the practical uses to which a goahead businessperson can put the information stored within the accounts of a business.

Keeping an accurate detail of all your business transactions should never be classed as a job to be done only when you can fit it into your busy schedule. Your business paperwork needs to be updated daily because it's the gauge of the financial health of your business. It's no good moaning that time could be more profitably spent making sales, because if you sell goods or services at a loss due to poor accounting procedures, what is the point of being in business? Did you know that more businesses fail in their first year or two because of insufficient financial control than for any other reason?

Business Agreements Made Easy: from pre-contractual business discussions to bringing a business deal to an end, this guide covers every step of the business agreement process. 

It is a general guide to some of the main commercial and legal issues, as well as the pitfalls, which can arise in relation to these business agreements.

The focus of this book is business-to-business contracts for the sale of goods or the supply of services to clients.

Contracts are looked at in a practical and commercial context, not just a legal perspective.  Various commercial and legal issues which occur throughout the contract process (e.g. from pre-contract to the end of the contract) are looked at.

In this book most of the issues are looked at from your perspective when dealing with your clients.  They are also relevant when dealing with your suppliers or subcontractors.  The book is not intended to deal with any specific industry.  It is intended to cover general simple business agreements for the supply of goods and/or services.   For example, it does not cover agency agreements or distribution agreements, employment contracts, contracts for sale of businesses or research and development agreements.

Business Letters Made Easy is a comprehensive collection of a wide range of business letters and this book will repay you, not only in time saved, but also in helping you to clinch deals, get debts paid quickly, obtain better prices and persuade people to your way of thinking.

Subjects covered include managing suppliers and customers, debt collection, credit control and more.

The Guide has a comprehensive Contents page, which groups the letters by topic.

Each topic is then subdivided into further categories, for example, under Managing Suppliers you will find (amongst others) Quotations, Orders, Invoices and statements, etc.

Each letter is also numbered for ease of reference. 

Business Letters Made Easy: ready-drafted letters for every business situation.

The Business Terms and Conditions e-Kit provides you with guidance and background information to help you understand the key elements of business terms and conditions including:

• Price and payment
• Delivery
• Recourse for faulty goods
• Force majeure
• Retention of title
• Limit of liability
• Termination

It also includes some model forms.  The kit covers the supply of services as well as goods and includes advice on debt recovery and how to choose and get the best out of your lawyer.

This is a key download for anyone starting a business or if you want to update your knowledge and make sure you understand the legal basics of business transactions.

Buying and Selling a Business gives you all you need to buy or sell a business in one neat information-packed pocket book.

Buying or selling a business are stressful events and, while they are apparently closely related (the same commodity is being traded, that of a business), in reality both are very different.

If you are buying a business, you will be in the driving seat. If you are selling one, you need to present your business to the purchaser in such a way that he will decide to buy.

Until he agrees to the purchase, and you have his signature on the contract, he is free to drop out at any moment of his choosing. In other words, he, as purchaser, not you, will be in the driving seat.

So with these two roles being very different, you will find that this book tries to cater for your adopting and, indeed, understanding both roles.

Employment Law Made Easy contains all you need to know about current employment legislation, and what this means for a company and its personnel.

In the last 30 years, the obligations upon and duties of an employer, in the area of health and safety in the workplace, have mushroomed. This book is an attempt to explain, in a straightforward way, the legal requirements that an employer needs to comply with, in this increasingly complex area.

For anyone running a business, an understanding of accounts is essential.

In many cases a trained accountant will actually prepare the accounts of a business, but the proprietors or directors have the responsibility for approving those accounts.

This does not mean that they are expected to have the knowledge needed to prepare the accounts, but they are expected to understand and approve the figures included in those accounts.

Anyone who is self-employed has full responsibility for the figures entered on their tax returns, no matter who actually prepares the accounts.

Company directors are assumed to be aware of the financial position of their companies, even though they may employ someone else to prepare the accounts.

A director who continues trading when he knows, or ought to have known, that the company cannot pay its debts may be required to pay compensation and could be barred from being a director in the future. 

How to Understand Accounts is a new guide for the layperson to understanding and interpreting your accounts. It reveals just how easy it should be to prepare, read and act on your business accounts.

This  book contains the main forms needed for a company secretary to maintain the essential records for a company to comply with the law. A handy guide for anyone who looks after the company books.

Ready-Made Personnel Records contains a collection of template forms, documents and letters that simplify personnel management and ensure compliance with current employment legislation.

As employment law and codes of practice increasingly affect the workplace, good, competent personnel record-keeping is essential for any employer, large or small.

Almost every personnel record-keeping form is at your fingertips, giving you the protection you need and advice on how to document your key employment contracts and documentation, avoid disputes, comply with legal obligations and avoid liability.

Almost any organisation can benefit from using this Guide. It can be used by both charitable and commercial concerns to record employee turnover, agreements, salaries and policies.

It will be particularly useful to time-starved small and medium-sized businesses, which can easily keep up-to-date, accurate and valuable personnel records with this book.

Ready-made Personnel Records contains all the important and ready-to-complete forms and documents you need to manage your employees. 

Running Your Own Business Made Easy: This comprehensive guide to becoming self-employed and setting up and running your own business will provide you with all the advice you need on the practicalities... and the secrets of success.
 

A business start-up book to cover all the basics – explaining in short, easy-to-read chapters everything from business plans and raising finance to employing people, sales skills to VAT, finding premises to exhibiting. It is designed for the first-time, would-be entrepreneur and provides many answers as well as good questions

It is light and easy to read, practical and without unwanted jargon or technicalities.  There are many colourful illustrations helping divide up the 101 different topics. 

It's a PDF over 128 pages of useful, stimulating and inspiring content, written by accountant and entrepreneur Michael Carter.

Read more and view sample pages on the blog.

Working From Home looks at how the law affects both those who are self-employed and working from home and those who are working from home and employed as homeworkers.