A free selection of instructional guides are provided on how to form a UK company. These comprehensive and practical illustrations are available to view online or download as a PowerPoint presentation or an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
A description of the various attributes which are necessary when forming a UK company (with references made to more detailed coverage of each individual area) now follows:
The question of how to form a company is a common query asked by many members of the public who have no prior experience or knowledge of incorporating a business in the UK.
This article and the above documents seek to address a common assumption made by many in the company formation industry, namely that someone who has been an employee their entire working life is familiar with how to form a UK limited company.
It is written on the basis that a single person will be setting up the business and will act as both sole director and shareholder of the new entity from the moment of its registration.
Forming a company requires that a collection of elements are in place in order to be successful. These apply to equally to both trading and dormant companies as the requirements and procedures for either type of company are identical.
Further references on how to form a company are contained within this resource; specifically Getting Started, which details the exact procedures involved in setting up a company with Complete Formations. Forming a Company, is it easy or difficult contains some good commonsense advice on how to avoid the pitfalls frequently encountered by those who want to register a company for the first time.
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