Running Your Own Business

This guide is for anyone with a new or developing business. Since all business successes lie in a positively planned approach, the author suggests how to plan ahead, how to ask the right questions and where to go for expert advice. The book encourages entrepreneurial self-analysis. Why do you want to run your own business? Where do you start? What forms might it take? It aims entrepreneurs to examine and plan their purpose, product and business potential. Systematically focusing on the central issues, this book offers practical advice on - raising capital, financial planning, choosing premises, buying materials, marketing, borrowing money, minimizing tax, employing staff, granting credit and growing bigger. David Williams is the author of "Tax for the Employee" and "Tax for the Self-Employed".