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Follow these executive summary dos and don'ts to create an engaging and persuasive executive summary.

How to make a clear and simple plan for how your business will move through the startup and growth phases.

Your business plan will need to be ready for an external audience to view if you're seeking finance or investment.

A guide on the essential role that creating and using a business plan plays in starting your new business.

Information on organisations that provide mentoring opportunities for local businesses in Northern Ireland.

Online business mentoring lets mentors and mentees work together wherever they are located at times which suit.

Practical tips to help social enterprises plan, manage finances and measure impact.

Funding and support resources to help social enterprises secure finance at every stage of development.

Social enterprise funding requires clarity, strong relationships, proven impact, and a confident funding proposal.

Social enterprises can blend grants, loans, investment and crowdfunding to grow sustainably and stay aligned to mission and impact.

Check that your planned company name or trade mark is not already registered or similar to one already existing.

Tutorial on common ways to raise business finance, such as bank finance, equity finance and accessing government grants.

An administrator or stock controllers' duties, typical paperwork and auditing or checking stock

Stock and batch tracking, checking goods and the British Standards Institute scheme for quality management

RFID inventory management provides a highly versatile way to control and track stock

Sales order processing, automatic stock monitoring and how to choose the right stock control system

Using inventory listing, stock codes, stock books and a simple re-order system to manage your stock

How to control stock through reviews, minimum levels, using batch control and first in first out systems.

Advantages and disadvantages of keeping either plenty of stock or very little

The four main types of stock - raw materials and components, work in progress, finished goods and consumables

How to put together a successful business plan for your start-up business and what the plan needs to include

Some legal requirements for business startups, including business structures, business taxes and intellectual property

How to make sure you have the right finance in place for your new business and how to manage cashflow