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Starting A Business In France

 

[ Download PDF ] 2 00,000 businesses on average are started every year in France and approximately 50 per cent of them fail or change their proprietor or legal status during the critical first five years. The failure rate is a high proportion of this percentage. Motivation is certainly not lacking a... [ Read More ]

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Richard Whiting - Richard Whiting has been living and working in France for over 20 years. He has dealt with a variety of recent and established businesses and their proprietors, promoting his companies' business-to-business services and selling residential property.

 
 
 

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1.Preface

2.All-Important Prior Questions
Why Start A Business In France?; What Sort Of Business Do You Want To Start?; What Name Will You Choose For Your Business?; Where Should You Set Up Your Business?; When Should You Start Your Business?; Understanding Everything And Being Understood; Useful

3.Getting Market Research Right
Reducing Your Risk Through Market Research; Reading Your Market Research Report; Sourcing Information On Your Market; Testing The Marketplace; Useful Vocabulary; Useful Addresses And Websites;

4.Forme Juridique, Social Security And Taxation
What Formes Juridiquesare Available?; Abbreviations And Useful Vocabulary; Social Security And Unemployment Benefit; Abbreviations And Useful Addresses; Taxation; Why Not Register As A Uk Company?;

5.What Sort Of Business Plan?
Summary; Presentation Of The Entrepreneur; Presentation Of The Product; Financial Details; Useful Vocabulary And Definitions;

6.Advice, Information, Aid, Grants And Loans
Advice Available; Information Available; Tce; Aid Available; Anvar; European Union Grants; Loans (And Consultancy); Racines; Regional Loans; Useful Regional And Départemental Addresses And Websites; Useful Vocabulary;

7.Private Funds, Bank Loans, Venture Capital And Leasing
Private Funds; Banks; Venture Capital; Leasing (Crédit-Bail); Useful Vocabulary; Useful Addresses And Websites;

8.Premises
Buying Premises; Useful Vocabulary; Renting Premises; Useful Vocabulary; Working From Home; Business Centres (Centres D’affaires); Les Pepinieres D’entreprises; Zfu, Zru And Zus Development Areas; Business Location Checklist; Useful Vocabulary; Office Layo

9.Procedures
Registration Formalities;

10.Avoiding Pitfalls
Improve Your French; The Project; Setting Up The Business; Employees; Estimates; Getting Advice; Getting Things Confirmed; Getting Experience; Getting Loans; Getting An Overdraft; Insurance; Marketing And Market Research; Negotiating; Objectives; Opening H

11.The Accounts And Correspondence
Centres De Gestions Agréés (Cga); Accounting Principles; Correspondence; Useful Vocabulary;

12.Getting And Keeping Customers
Marketing; Websites; Prospecting And Getting Appointments; Useful Vocabulary;

13.Employing People
Recruitment; Employment Conditions; Employment Benefits; Employment Contracts; Cdd, Cdlandcnecontracts; Employing Husbands Or Wives; Redundancy (Ucenciement Économique) And Dismissals (Licenciements Pour Motif Personnel); Useful Vocabulary;