Risk Management - Insurance

As a business owner, it’s your responsibility to secure the necessary business insurance to protect your assets, property and employees.

Environmental Sustainability - Utilities

By reducing your company’s energy consumption, you can have a positive impact on the environment and you can save money. There are simple things you could do to reduce your utility bill.

Environmental Sustainability - Sustainable Supply Chain

By using sustainable practices throughout your supply chain, you can help promote human rights, fair labor practices and environmental progress. Consider it a guideline and goal.

Recordkeeping - Business Digitization

Every business has many opportunities to streamline processes and use digital tools that can help cut costs and save you time. Doing this allows you to focus on other important tasks that come with running a business.

Recordkeeping - Managing Inventory

Sticking to an inventory management strategy will help you stay organized, maintain accuracy, save you time and money, increase efficiency and productivity, and keep your customers satisfied.

Recordkeeping - Budgets, Accounting and Planning

When it comes to planning and decision-making, a clear record of your business’s performance is extremely valuable. You can begin by deciding on a process for tracking performance-related details.

Planning for Emergencies - Disaster Preparedness

Natural disasters can devastate entire communities and small businesses along with them. That’s why it’s important to have a disaster plan in place before the unexpected occurs.

Financial Statements - Cash Flow Statement

Your business’s cash flow is a measure of the money that’s coming into and going out of your business. The cash flow statement divides your cash flows into three sections: operating, investing and financing.

Financial Statements - Profit and Loss Statement

While the balance sheet gives you a snapshot of your business’s finances, the profit and loss (P&L) statement gives you insight into how your business has done over a period of time.

Financial Statements - Balance Sheet

The balance sheet can give you a snapshot of your business’s financial situation at a specific time. It’s broken up into three parts: assets, liabilities and owners’ equity.

Managing Employees - Retriement

As you focus on the many day-to-day aspects of running a business, it can be easy to lose track of planning for your future. But, every business owner needs a retirement plan to help ensure a secure financial future for themselves and their children once their working life ends.

Managing Employees - Leadership

Whether you’re a natural leader or new to managing others, being successful doesn’t happen overnight. The trick is staying committed to doing your best and continually improving.

Managing Employees - Payroll

Paying employees fairly, legally and on time is an important part of running a business. But with taxes, tracking paperwork and setting a payroll schedule, it can be hard for busy small business owners to know where to begin.

Financial Management - Profit and Loss

You'll need to make money to keep your business running, but understanding when and how you’re making money isn’t always simple.

Financial Management - Managing Cash Flow and Expenses

Being able to predict and manage your cash flow — the timing of when you get paid and when you have to pay bills — is an essential skill for success.

Financial Management - Types of Business Credit

Businesses can have a credit history and credit scores that are separate from the business owner’s credit. Building your business credit can make it easier to qualify for a line of credit, loan or credit card.

Financial Management - Banking Services

One of the first things you may want to do after creating your business is to open a bank account for your business. Learn about different options and tips from this article.

Financial Management - Payment Options

As a small business owner, you’ll need to decide what types of payment you’ll accept, such as cash, check, credit card, debit card, mobile phones, etc. Offering more than one option could help you attract a wider variety of customers and allow your customers to make larger purchases.

How To Work Collaboratively - Best Practices for Remote Working

Learn how to conduct yourself through video meetings, but how to motivate others and collaborate more effectively as part of a distributed team.

Building relationships with donors

This free course, Building relationships with donors, will help you to gain the skills necessary to persuade individuals to become donors. How do you change people's ideas about methods of giving, moving them from casual street donations to regular direct debit giving?

Emotional Intelligence at Work

In this course, you will explore how emotional intelligence influences not only our relationships with others but also with ourselves. You will examine ways in which emotional intelligence can be measured, how emotional intelligence can be applied within organisational settings and whether it is possible for someone to be taught how to become more emotionally intelligent

Figuring out Finance 2

Do you start to tremble in a meeting when the discussion turns financial? If so, this short, lighthearted course is for you. In this second episode, we look at costing, pricing and how to evaluate whether or not to go ahead with an investment or project. Free on UK Learns.

Figuring out Finance 1

Do you start to tremble in a meeting when the discussion turns financial? If so, this short, lighthearted course is for you. In this first episode, we demystify key financial terms and learn how we can use a company's financial statements to our advantage.

Fundamentals of Accounting

This free course, Fundamentals of accounting, will explain the fundamental purpose and role of accounting, as well as the double-entry rules that are the foundation of all financial records and reports in any modern business.

Implementing the project

This free course, Implementing the project, will introduce some of the key techniques that help managers to monitor and control projects, and consider what approaches work best in particular circumstances.

Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting

Learn about the essential numerical skills required for accounting and bookkeeping. This free course, Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting, explains the fundamental rules of double-entry bookkeeping and how they are used to produce the balance sheet and the profit-and-loss account.

Managing and managing people

Managing and managing people, will introduce you to the world of management. We will be looking at a range of topics, including what managers do, what skills they require and how you can develop as a manager.

Professional Resilience: Building skills to thrive at work

On this course, you’ll learn the meaning of resilience. You’ll explore the capabilities, skills, and self-care practices that contribute to resilience. This will enable you to build up your own resilience, so you’re ready to meet challenges both professionally and personally.

Software and the law

In this free course, Software and the law, you'll look at the laws relevant to software and its use, taking a global perspective. Explain the differences between various types of intellectual property and the legal frameworks that apply to each type.

Understanding organisational culture

Motivating your team

Communicating in the virtual workplace

Digital Transformation in Practice: Virtual Collaboration Tools

Learn from LinkedIn about organizational and individual mindset shifts in digital transformation, and how we can work and collaborate in exciting new productive ways.

How to manage a mobile workforce

Learn advice and best practice from CMI about how you can maintain morale and productivity during the COVID-19 crisis

How to make homeworking work for you and your team: expert guidance from #BetterManagers

Learn advice and best practice from CMI about how you can maintain morale and productivity during the COVID-19 crisis

How to manage an entirely virtual team

Learn advice and best practice from CMI about how you can maintain morale and productivity during the COVID-19 crisis

Government Business Finance and Support

This Gov.uk page guides you through all the support schemes set up by the UK government to support businesses through the current crisis.

The Digital Economy: Finance for Business Growth

4hr free course guiding you through finance options in the digital economy - covering traditional and alternative finance options; how to evaluate what type of funding is suitable for your business; and developing a financial statement and funding strategy, to make the right decision