From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:17:04 +0100
Subject: EQUITY – Free Training in Manchester – MONEY MATTERS

MONEY MATTERS: get to grips with your finances

Free one-day workshop: Manchester

Date: November 17^th 2011

Time: 10am � 4.30am

Venue:

WFA Media & Cultural Centre

9 Lucy Street

Old Trafford

Manchester

M15 4BX

Content

The end of the financial year (Jan 31, 2012) will soon be upon those of us who are self-employed.

To help you get to grips with key financial issues and to ensure that you don’t waste your hard-earned cash through ignorance, this free workshop includes: 

Budgeting and money management

• Personal and business financial issues
• Short- and long-term aims and objectives
• Covering overheads
• Project direct/variable costs
• Survival budgeting
• Break-even analysis
• Practical trading and cash flow forecasting
• Profit and loss calculation
• Pricing and costing
• Agent and agency commissions, credit and debt control.

Legal Entities and Business Vehicles

• Evaluating and explaining business status such as employment, self-employment and owner-management
• Key Contract differentials for performers and stage management
• The pros and cons
• Income streams
• Trading names
• “IR35″/agency tax status issues
• Other liabilities.

Working with HMRC

• Business registration
• Tax explained, including Capital Gains Tax, Income and Corporation taxes plus VAT
• Allowable business expenses
• Personal, investment and capital allowances, tax credits, pension premiums, vehicle benefits and mileage allowances
• National Insurance Contributions: Classes (1,2,3 and 4) and main social security benefits
• Tax returns, bands, rates and dates: how to calculate, minimise and when to make payments.

Business Administration

• Books and record-keeping � what, why and for how long.

Business and Network Development

• The 80/20 rule
• Staying in control of your business
• Maximising the potential of valuable support.

Who should attend?

• Those freelancers working in the creative industries who wish to get a better insight into how to manage their finances effectively.

Learning outcomes

• A clearer understanding of what financial issues you need to cover when working for yourself
• A clearer understanding of how to use management information to achieve your objectives.

HOW TO APPLY:

To apply for a place on this free, one-day workshop, go to www.feutraining.org/2011/money-matters/ and fill in the short application form by November 3. You will need to register (free) on the site if you have not done so already.

All our workshops have been over-subscribed to date, so we will choose successful applicants randomly after the cut-off date and let you know if you have been successful (or not) in securing a place within a week after the cut-off date.

WHO’S AN FEU TRAINING MEMBER?

Equity, The National Union of Journalists, the Musicians’ Union and the Writers’ Guild are working together in this instance under the banner of ‘The Federation of Entertainment Unions’. This enables us to maximise resources to deliver skills development opportunities common to our multi-union members.

Our aim is to help the career progress of our freelance members through the recession and beyond by providing a range of free and low cost blended-learning opportunities.

More info:

Tel: 0791 439 7243

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.feutraining.org.uk

Best wishes

Louise Grainger

Marketing, Events and Training Manager

www.equity.org.uk

T: 020 7670 0214

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