Tools directory
Business Link tools directory
This page contains links to the interactive tools that are available on the website. To access them, select from the relevant links under each theme heading below.
Buy or sell a business
- Assess your business' performance
- Buying an existing business checklist
- Business exit checklist
- Individual insolvency: find out your options for dealing with debt
- Succession planning and business transfer
Employment & skills
- Achieve gender equality in the workplace
- Applications for trade union recognition
- Assess your leadership styles and strengths
- Calculate the statutory redundancy pay due to your employee
- Calculate your employees' holiday entitlement
- Check the eligibility of your workers
- Check your legal responsibilities when recruiting new employees
- Choose the right type of flexible working
- Create a personal development plan
- Create a written statement of employment
- Employing people checklist
- End employment correctly
- Follow the correct disciplinary procedure
- Handling potential redundancies
- Managing expectant and new mothers at work
- Managing paternity and adoption leave and pay
- National minimum wage entitlement, rate and arrears checker
- Taking on a new employee
Environment & efficiency
- Assess your environmental compliance
- Identify where you can save money by going green
- Identify where you can save money by preparing for climate change
Create, innovate and protect
Finance & grants
- Assess and improve your business cashflow
- Calculate the interest due on an unpaid debt
- Set up a simple profit and loss account for your business
- Government guaranteed lending schemes
- Identify the right finance options for your business
- Recover your debts
Grow your business
Workplace health & safety
- Get the right insurance for your business
- Health & safety performance indicator
- Manage a health & safety induction for office-based workers
International Trade
- Are you ready to export?
- Assess the best method of payment for your transaction
- Assess your readiness for an AEO application
- Check if you need to be certified to import organic goods
- Getting ready to export to individual countries
- UK Trade Tariff
- Understand what customs procedures and reliefs apply to you
- Understand your tax obligations when importing or exporting
IT & e-commerce
- Assess and minimise your IT risks
- Get the right social media for your business
- Get the right website for your business
- Notifying the Information Commissioner
- Setting up a basic IT system
Sales and marketing
- Choosing the right advertising media
- Discover who your most valuable customers are
- Identify potential sales channels
Starting up
- Business start-up organiser
- Buying an existing business checklist
- Company name and trade mark checker
- Developing new business ideas
- Find out how to protect your ideas
- Get the right insurance for your business
- Identify the right finance options for your business
- Incorporate your limited company online with Companies House
- Regulation checklist
- When to register for VAT
Tax, payroll and company information
- Calculate and recover Additional Statutory Paternity Pay
- Check tax & legal issues when selling a business
- Estimate your rates bill
- Find out what records you should be keeping
- Find out which VAT retail scheme you should use
- Identify the National Insurance contributions you must pay
- Identify which VAT scheme your business is eligible to use
- Paying an employee for the first time
- When you can deregister for VAT
- When to register for VAT
Transport and Logistics
Premises and property
Regulations and compliance
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