CHAPTER 3

LAWS AND SYSTEMS

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  • Legal requirements
  • Getting the accounts right
  • Setting up systems and technology
  • Insurance

It might sound a bit dry, but being well organized is vital when you are starting a business. Even the most flamboyant and bohemian artist needs to send out invoices, pay the bills and stay the right side of the taxman – not very glamorous perhaps, but very necessary. Before you raise your eyebrows to the heavens and turn over the page, do consider one vital point: most of the tedium of administration can be offset by doing it once properly at the beginning. Thousands of businesses have wasted huge amounts of time ...

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