Legal & compliance

When growing your business, you need to remain aware of the legal and compliance issues related to growing your business. The following links will provide you with an overview of the most important considerations.

Growth implications
The importance of growing businesses having specialist accounting and legal advice cannot be over emphasised.

Corporate governance
Corporate governance is often thought about in the context of publically listed companies.  However, it is just as important for privately held, small to medium sized businesses to adhere to good corporate governance policies and practices.

Changing legal structures
As the business grows, there may be good reasons for changing the business structure.

To find more detailed information about the legal and compliance issues you need to be aware of, go to the legal module in the Small Business Tool Kit.