Thursday 4 October

With the first quarter of the financial year over, and Christmas a mere 82 days away, now is a good time for small businesses to assess how they are doing.

So what are the key indicators you need to be checking now we’ve hit quarter time? Today, business advisory guru Marc Peskett outlines the three critical areas you need to analyse to ensure your business is in good shape to tackle 2013 and beyond.

Valuing a business appears, to the uninitiated, to be a complex science, so we’ve got Tony Glenning, an executive at VC firm Starfish, to explain how investors do it.