Product Description

You can set up a business in one of four ways: as a limited company, as a sole trader, as a partnership or as a limited liability partnership. Each of these has its advantages and disadvantages. This book will help you decide which option is best for you.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #367447 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 152 pages

About the Author
Mark Fairweather is a practising solicitor and is one of the founding partners of the legal firm Fairweather Stephenson Co. He and Rosy Border have written 14 titles together, including five in Cavendish Publishing's Pocket Lawyer series. He has two children and lives in Suffolk. Rosy Border, co-author of this title and series editor of the Pocket Lawyer series, has a first class honours degree in French and has worked in publishing, lecturing, journalism and the law. A prolific author and adapter, she stopped counting after 150 titles. Rosy and her husband, John Rabson, live in rural Suffolk and have a grown up family. Rosy enjoys DIY, entertaining and retail therapy in French markets.

Customer Reviews

DIY incorporation - no bills, no spills
I thought company law must be dry stuff until I read this book. Mind you, using Great Novels as examples certainly helps. Pip sets up a maternity wear company called Great Expectations, Sam Pickwick changes his company name from Pickwick Papers to Pickwick Electronic Archives and Scrooge and Marley pass a resolution to charge Bob Cratchit for lighting and heating his garret. It's more like a soap opera, except for the strong legal content and lucid prose.

The disk which accompanies the kit gives you all the documents you need. I test-drove it when I set up a limited company recently, and it all went smoothly....

It does exactly what it says on the cover!
"It does exactly what it says on the cover!" - This sums up my review of this book, and only wish I had had it available when i set up my company. It would have saved me money and hassle.

The book is well written in plain english, and explains clearly everything you need to do to set up a Limited Company in the UK.

There are sample letters and documents included, and it provides links to a web site where current information is provided.

Brief but good
Does everything it says on the cover. Chatty and light in style, easily followed. Internet-savvy too - includes references to on-line versions of the forms.

Be warned, though, it won't help you with tax or employment legislation, you'll need much more than a slim book for that.