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Aims and Objects of the Institute for Independent Business
- To bring to independent business the most useful advice and timely ideas from knowledgeable experts, academics and business innovators; to open doors to important and profitable opportunities; to raise the professional standards of independent business practice; to enhance the image of independent business and its advisers.
- To advance the understanding of the workings of independent business by research in relevant fields alone or in co-operation with other interested and competent bodies, academic and commercial.
- To provide research facilities pertaining to independent business for the benefit of and use by other persons or bodies, academic and commercial
- To disseminate such findings and information as may be useful to the operators of independent business by all means expedient, more particularly through training courses, educational programmes, conferences, journals and other publications or media.
- To educate, train and generally support advisers to the independent business sector such that the adviser may be accredited by the Institute at an appropriate level.
- To raise funds for the purpose of financing such activities as may meet the objects of the Institute by all means, including the charging of tuition fees, licence fees, research fees, subscription fees and such other charges, as may from time to time be appropriate.
- To carry on any other business activities which may seem to the Institute capable of being advantageously carried on in furtherance of the Institute’s objectives.
The above Aims & Objects are those of the Institute. Executive Associates and Fellows accredited by the Institute are required to comply with the Institute's Code of Ethics.