CHAPTER 4

THE MONEY BIT

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  • Dealing with your bank
  • Securing finance
  • Tax and pay
  • How to have a decent margin
  • Looking ahead to avoid a crisis

As we saw in the last chapter, legal matters and systems have a strong link to the financial elements of your business, and it is of course important that you set everything up correctly and keep them in order as time goes by. But there is another aspect to money, and that is your attitude to it. Almost every case study concerning business success stories says the same thing: businesses established purely to make cash rarely do so. Those with a strong sense of purpose and integrity fare better, ...

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