Surviving the onslaught of credit crunch is more important than failing!

Shortage of funds is one thing; a continuous shortage leading to zero money is another. It’s more crucial when it involves a business and it doesn’t need to be explained why. So from the POV of a business owner, imagine a situation with less inflow of cash to the company than the previous month. Important payments were somehow managed by putting aside certain other less important ones with hope of a better inflow next month. But, the next month also the cash inflow is short and the next option - a loan from the bank – needs qualifying for it and the business doesn’t.

Okay, we see you already thinking if the company can make it with liquidation. Yes, it’s what we call insolvency. It is about a business turning zero-money (by legal and business definitions) and selling all of its assets to pays its outstanding debts.

Insolvency makes a business go down to liquidation through many ways. Liquidation is usually ordered by the court, but a business may also voluntarily liquidize. This is followed by deregistration and the business ceases to exist.

Or, it could be a voluntary administration in which, the company directors or their primary creditor requests a voluntary administrator to investigate the financial status of the business and recommend as needed; whether to move ahead further or to liquefy it and give everyone their respective shares.

Receivership is another part of insolvency that happens when the main creditor of the company wants to collect and sell the business’ assets to recover the debt amount. Here, he appoints a receiver.

To stop businesses from such falls and getting the maximum out from businesses that can’t be helped, there were created the insolvency and Corporate Insolvency Services in Sydney. Its philosophy is simple – equate numbers to life! Those who do that are strong supports to lean onto amidst economic turmoils.

Corporate Recovery Services and insolvency (CR&I) is not as dark as you might thing; but gloom and doom co-exist here. As an accountant specialised in business valuation, business trading and people management, there’s a lot this highly sensitive, emotive arena might offer; the bests are challenged here as much as they are rewarded. It’s in equal measure, so no regrets. It’s formal and process-driven beyond doubts, but restructuring and bringing the biggest benefits to all is satisfaction.

Restructuring work is much more fluid than insolvency. There are wider options to work with situation changing the requirements. Managing working capital, examining existing processes and re-engineering them when needed – similar such requirements provide a recovery specialist a wide space to show his skills upon collapsed, distressed businesses. In simple words, they’ll do anything to help a failing business turn around towards profitability.