Protecting your business in the current economic climate
Thursday 13 November 2008, Stanley House Hotel, Mellor
8.30 Registation and breakfast9.00 Funding - Business Law• Sources of funding – debt and equity
• Types of debt funding
• Borrowing from your pension
• Security (for the lender)
• Equity funding: who owns what?
• Making co-ownership work
• Grant funding: is it still out there? 9.15 Credit and Cost Control - Commercial Litigation• Credit management: are all customers good customers?
• Debt recovery
• Litigation: an expensive luxury? 9.30 Premises - Commercial Property• New premises – buying or leasing
• Moving on – getting out of leases
• Dilapidations and distraint
• Rent reviews 9.45 Staffing - Employment• Workforce incentives in hard times
• Flexible working and agency workers
• Letting go: lay-offs and redundancy
• Preventing loss of custom and goodwill 10.00 Trading Through – Business Law• Making your Terms and Conditions work for you
• Price adjustments
• Retention of title
• Late payment
• Beware wrongful trading 10.15 Questions and close
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