Meetings are a crucial part of our lives, but too often they go nowhere and waste valuable time. This title shows how meetings can be transformed to produce quick, decisive results. It presents the Six Hats method which is a simple technique based on the brain's different modes of thinking.

A modern approach to business start-up, this book includes information on making your business ethical and socially responsible, along with exercises to help build self-confidence and visualize success. It provides a step-by-step guide to researching and formulating your business ideas, and planning the right marketing strategies.

Presenting an introduction to strategic management, this title features a range of organizations with rich settings for students to develop key strategy skills and understanding.

Helps to assess whether you've got the right characteristics to make a success of self-employment. This title enables to learn about business plans; survival income; discounting; researching your market; targeting your customers; listening to your customers and keeping them happy; marketing and selling; and, tax, national insurance and VAT.

Sage 50 Accounts is the one of the most popular small business accounting software packages available. With this comprehensive and friendly guide in hand, you'll discover how to set up and install this software, create a chart of accounts, invoice customers, run VAT returns and produce monthly accounts.

A best-selling guide from business start-up expert Colin Barrow covering everything budding entrepreneurs need to know to get their business up and running. Whether you are just starting out, planning a new venture, setting up at home or extending a current business online, this book is all you need to succeed.

Dealing with bereavement is never easy. As well as the impact of loss and emotional upheaval, there is a complex process to go through, involving registration, funeral arrangements, burial procedures, probate, tax, financial affairs and administration. This title provides a range of alternatives to traditional funeral services.

The new edition of this successful text synthesizes good management practice for students and encourages and develops entrepreneurial skills. Clearly structured and accessibly presented, this comprehensive textbook includes accounting control, decision-making and new coverage of gender and ethnicity; CSR, ethics and business failure .

Demonstrates the relevance of applying economics principles to solve business problems, using a unique business first approach. This book introduces economics to business students. It explains key economic theories within the context of modern business, drawing on examples to bring the topics to life.