All lenders and insolvency practitioners know what happens to the assets section of a company’s Balance Sheet when it goes into any formal insolvency process, even those designed as rescue procedures. Valuation of assets in a business The valuations placed on assets by directors in good faith or at least in compliance with reporting standards and then supported by external
Getting Back on Site – Challenges as Construction Gets Started After Covid-19 Shutdown By the end of April, 70% of sites operated by major contractors were open again and virtually all the major house builders were back in operation, driven by the severe financial implications of the lockdown. A survey in early May suggested that the industry had been losing
The legal pitfalls to be aware of Businesses fail for all sorts of reasons, some within the control of the entrepreneur behind them, others because of a variety of external factors. Most failures will end with at least some debts unpaid and with the company going into Liquidation, possibly after an attempt has been made first to rescue it through
As we all know, most early stage tech and other high growth businesses are often reliant on equity funding, typically from institutions (such as VCs), or family offices, high net worth investors and crowd-funding platforms. These rapidly-developing businesses are generally in a perpetual state of fund-raising, as they grow towards gaining sufficient traction in the market to make them profitable
The Pandemic is disrupting every aspect of businesses, but probably none quite as fundamentally as the lives of those in the accounts department. These places are havens of routine; they keep score and churn out an orderly stream of budgets, forecasts, management information and annual accounts. They speak the universal business language: numbers. This crisis has pulled the rug of
As the Pandemic tears into businesses, slashing revenues and highlighting those fixed costs that just will not go away, the temptation for business owners and directors is to hunker down and turn inwards to find a route to survival, while maintaining a stoical silence. Counter-intuitively, there will never be a time when shouting from the rooftops about your problems and
