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Business
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Corporate Insolvency
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A
company is regarded as technically insolvent if it is unable to meet
its current obligations.
Such insolvency may be temporary and subject to remedy.
Technical
insolvency means a lack of liquidity.
Insolvency in bankruptcy means that the liabilities of a
company exceed its assets; in other words, the net worth of the
company is negative.
Financial
failure includes the entire range of possibilities between these
extremes. The solutions available to save a failing company vary in
severity according to the degree of financial difficulty.
Many
failing firms can be re-organized to the gain of creditors and
shareholders.
Although the major purpose of a liquidation or reorganization
is to protect creditors, the interests of the owners are also
considered. If the outlook is sufficiently hopeless, liquidation may be the
only feasible alternative. If
there is little prospect for profitable operations creditors will want
to liquidate the company and take whatever losses they must at the
time. The causes of financial difficulty may be related to internal or
external causes: ·
Inadequate
sales ·
Competitive
weakness ·
Poor
location ·
Business
operating factors ·
Management
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Heavy
operating expenses ·
Inventory
difficulties ·
Receivables
difficulties ·
Excessive
amount of fixed assets ·
Disaster,
Neglect, Fraud When the underlying cause is external, and there is no way for management to curtail losses, the inevitable result is liquidation. |
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