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How business liabilities can balloon during insolvency
Following our first three articles on business devaluation during insolvency, we now turn our attention to the liabilities in the balance sheet. What is often […]
How current assets melt away in an insolvency situation
In this third instalment on the devaluation of a business during insolvency, we turn our attention to current assets. These assets can not only shrink […]
What happens to non-current assets in an insolvency situation?
In our first article in this series, we looked at the mystery of why apparently solvent companies end up heavily devalued and paying almost nothing […]
Why does insolvency reduce business value?
One of the great commercial puzzles is why the unsecured creditors of an apparently healthy business end up only recovering pennies in the pound on […]
The hard realities of ‘soft credit’
Those who run and manage businesses are familiar with the two traditional sources of funding. They understand balance sheet finance, whether it is debt from […]
A review of 2022 complex international insolvency cases – the challenges and how they were addressed
What do the collapse of a major cryptocurrency exchange, Britain’s allegedly biggest-ever personal insolvency and the devastation of one of Russia’s major gold mining businesses […]
As CBILS defaults rise, what now for struggling borrowers?
The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS Scheme) One of the three main pandemic loan mechanisms, the CBIL Scheme, ran from March 2020 to March […]
Debt collection challenges as business energy price support is slashed
The government’s cut in support for businesses on their energy costs announced in the new Energy Bills Discount Scheme was expected, but the scale of […]
How will businesses be affected by the energy support cut?
As energy prices disappeared off the chart in the wake of the Ukraine conflict, the government opened its coffers last autumn and wrote what has […]
After the annus horribles of 2022, what will the business outlook be in 2023?
The futility of predicting 2022 Even Nostradamus would have struggled to get his economic forecasts right for 2022, although there were straws in the winter […]