Business Consultancy

Business Consultancy - Surveys and Statistics

Business Options have collated a range of useful business surveys and statistics.

To access detailed information on the surveys or factsheets follow the links below.

Surveys and Reports:

Annual Small Business Survey 2005 Executive Summary:
This summary sets out the key findings from the Small Business Service’s Annual Small Business Survey for 2005.
http://www.sbs.gov.uk/SBS_Gov_files/researchandstats/AnnualSurveyOfSmallBus05ExecSum.pdf

Business Continuity Management Report:
Report undertaken by the Chartered Management Institute
http://www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk/business/bcm_report2007.pdf

2005 ecommerce Survey of Business
This report is based on the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) sixth annual e-commerce survey and, for the second year, publishes both the value of electronic trading and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_economy/ecommerce_report_2005.pdf

Factsheets:

Valuing a business
The uses of valuation, key factors affecting the value of your business, the standard methods of valuation and how to calculate profit for the purpose of valuation
http://www.iod.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/en/pdfs/CF1VAL.PDF

Planning your exit from businesses
Setting your objectives, getting into shape for an exit, the different exit routes available, and planning for trade sales, management buy-outs and family succession.
http://www.iod.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/en/pdfs/cf5exits.pdf

Budgetting
How to forecast the figures you need, how to prepare cashflow, profit and loss, and balance sheet budgets and how to use your budgets.
http://www.iod.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/en/pdfs/fi21budg.pdf

Planning your marketing
The basic objectives of all marketing, reviewing your market and how you fit into it, creating a marketing strategy, and setting out your marketing action plan.
http://www.iod.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/en/pdfs/MA5PLAN.PDF

Selling techniques
Identify and approach targets, understand customer needs, then sell the benefits of your product and handle objections and close the sale
http://www.iod.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/en/pdfs/se2sellt.PDF

Creating a valuable business
How growth and security contribute to a valuable business. The major opportunities for creating and increasing value and how to protect the value of your business.
http://www.iod.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/en/pdfs/st17valu.pdf

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