Essential Skills: Insolvency

Identifying insolvency for recovery actions

Investigating the reasons for a company’s failure and identifying whether insolvent trading and other recoverable transactions have occurred is a key skill for an insolvency practitioner.

This course equips you with skills and tools to use financial data to identify the date of insolvency and insolvent transactions as well as to quantify the amount of an insolvent trading claim. The course also includes the new creditor-defeating dispositions.

Learning objectives

At the end of this course you will be able to:

• Understand the nature of insolvent trading.
• Recognise insolvent transactions and creditor-defeating dispositions.
• Determine the date of insolvency for recovery proceedings.
• Identify the steps in quantifying an insolvent trading claim.
• Access the approach to measuring an insolvent transaction claim.

Who should attend?

• Junior insolvency practitioners who want to build their knowledge of insolvency.
• Senior insolvency practitioners who want to expand or refresh their knowledge of this topic.
• Lawyers who want to understand this area of insolvency.

Prerequisites

We recommend you complete the Introduction to Insolvency Program, or have one year of on-the-job experience prior to attending this course.

CPE

TBC - maximum of 2 CPE verifiable hours. 

Please see our enrolment and cancellation policy. For further information contact our education team.