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Developing Your Cross-Border Business

Border People User Group(7)

8 March 2012

Bee Park Resource Centre, Manorhamilton, 10am - 2pm

Following the success of the last two User Group meetings the seventh seminar Developing Your Cross Border Business followed the same format and took place on the 8 March 2012 in the Bee Park Resource Centre in Manorhamilton from 10am - 2pm.

This event was aimed at businesses based in the border region or businesses who work across the border covered issues such as cross-border employment law; sourcing bank finance for a cross-border business; cross-border business taxes; debt-collection; accessing business grants in each jurisdiction; cross-border business succession and the public tendering and procurement procedure.

Frontier workers, organisations and individuals with an interest in specific aspects of employment and enterprise development attended and gave input which will was most welcome as this can then be used to help us to shape the content of the Border People website as we continue to develop.

For further information about Border People contact Joe Shiels j.shiels@qub.ac.uk or or Annmarie O'Kane a.okane@qub.ac.uk or telephone 028 3751 5291/2.

Programme

10am	Registration, Coffee & Networking opportunity
10.15am	Welcome by Joe Shiels Border People Project Manager
10.25am	Keynote presentation from Ronan Haslette, Managing Director of Merenda Ltd. Manorhamilton
Session One	Strand 1 chaired by Michael McElroy, Deputy Director, InterTradeIreland Acumen Programme	Strand 2 chaired by David Mullins, CEO, Sligo Business Network
10.45am	Sourcing Bank Finance for a Cross-Border Business Feargal McCormack, Michael Farrell, FPM Accountants Sourcing_finance.pdf	Cross-Border Employment Law Brian Morgan, Morgan McManus Solicitors CB_Employment_Law.pdf
11.15am	Challenges facing SMEs & Support Mechanisms John Trethowan, Credit Review Office Ireland Challenges.pdf	Cross Border Personal Taxation Issues, and Cross Border Inheritance & Business Succession Issues Rose Tierney, Tierney Tax Consultancy and Fergal McManus, Morgan McManus Solicitors and Registered Tax Advisor. CB_taxes_for_the_individual.pdf Wills_CB_Estates.pdf Business_succession_and_related_tax_issues.pdf
11.45am	Networking with tea & coffee
Session Two	Strand 1	Strand 2
12pm	Cross-Border Business Taxes Desi Foley, FPM Accountants CB Bsiness_Taxes.pdf	Debt Collection – Top 10 Tips Brian Morgan, Morgan McManus Solicitors Debt_collection.pdf
12.30pm	Cross-Border Business Grants Paddy Savage, InterTradeIreland CB Grants.pdf	Pension Considerations for Border People Kevin Coghlan, TierOne Prudential Limited and Peter Murtagh, BDO Pensions-Coghlan.pdf Pensions-Murtagh.pdf
1pm	Lunch
2pm	Address by Brian Morgan on his new LinkedIn Group the Border Counties Forum