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Management accounts
Finance

Do you really know where all your cash is tied up and how each element of your business is performing? If not, maybe you should consider compiling management accounts. Daniel Prais, partner at Crawfords Accountants (www.crawfordsaccountants.co.uk) explains how to get started.

Copyright
Legal

Copyright provides automatic protection for many forms of intellectual property. But that doesn’t mean you can just sit back and leave it to take care of itself. In the fourth and final part of our series on IP Katie Withers, associate in the intellectual property and technology team at law firm DLA Piper (www.dlapiper.com/uk/), explains all.

Relocation
General

If you’re lucky enough to have cash in the bank there are still good deals to be done on moving to new premises. But, before you book the removal men, read EN’s guide to relocation.

Social networking
General

Entrepreneurs who neglect online social networking risk their businesses being left out in the cold. To help you avoid that fate Penny Power, founder of networking site Ecademy (www.ecademy.com), explores the world of the “networked business”.

Design rights
Legal

In the third in our series on intellectual property Keith Arrowsmith, intellectual property and media partner at law firm Ralli (www.ralli.co.uk), explains that in many cases design rights provide adequate protection for products that may not be suitable for a patent – at a fraction of the price.

TOP 10 TIPS FOR DOING BUSINESS IN CHINA
Growth

As the UK’s trade deficit with China continues to grow, increasing numbers of UK businesses are looking to the Far East for new opportunities.

There's an M and E in team
General

Why some of your workforce will not work as a team. Psychtests.com, one of the web's foremost sources of personality and IQ assessments, are revealing the results of their popular Team Orientation test.

Commercial leases: saving money on service charges
Property

When negotiating a lease on a commercial property, service charges are one often-overlooked area in which significant amounts of money can be saved. Chris Renshaw, retail director at land and property consultancy CRC North (www.crcnorth.com), explains how you can save a few bob.

Trademarks
Legal

What’s in a name? The entire store of goodwill in your business, in many cases. In the second article in our series on intellectual property, Jackie Maguire, chief executive of Coller IP Management (www.colleripmanagement.com) explains what constitutes a trademark and how to protect it.

Recruiting a finance director
General

A good finance director can transform your business – as can a bad one, though not in the way you would like. Derrick Watson, director of financial and executive recruitment firm Watson Moore (www.watsonmoore.com), provides his tips to help you recruit a good ’un.

  • Fat camps

    Turning excess lard into dough? It’s like taking candy from a baby. EN heads to the fit farm and examines a bulging bottom line.

  • Angels with dirty faces

    EN visited the British Business Angels Association’s annual conference and found a sector torn between confidence and crisis.

  • Slick moves

    Are we emerging from recession into an energy crisis? Probably not, as EN discovers.

  • The unavoidable truth

    EN and Downtown in Business hosted a wide-ranging panel debate following June’s emergency Budget. This is what happened.

  • Day nurseries

    Making money out of nurseries should be child’s play. Shouldn’t it? EN examines the real bottom line.

Five Minutes With

Frank McKenna

Frank McKenna has never exactly been shy about being the public face of the Downtown in Business brand, which he founded in Liverpool in 2004 and now boasts operations in Preston and Manchester (the latter launched earlier this year). His weekly, “Thank Frank it’s Friday” email missives, “Frankie Says” blog and Tarantino-inspired advertisements are cases in point.

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Betta Living’s boss reminds us a bit of TV’s David Dickinson. But was his best transaction the Real Deal? Stuart Anderson hastily conceals his Ikea loyalty card as Noel Dean reveals...

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