Start Date

29 July 2024

Delivery mode

UTS Component: Online
ARITA Workshops: Face-to-face or online

Prerequisites

ARITA Advanced Certification: Fundamentals of Restructuring, Insolvency & Turnaround and 
ARITA subscription/membership (Check alternative prerequisites)

We recommend you have three years’ experience before commencing the course.

Duration

14 weeks (including breaks)

Study Hours
10-12 hours per week

2024 Fees
$4,258 per subject (inc. GST)

CPE
Up to 1 hour for every hour spent on the course

Advanced Insolvency is a subject in ARITA’s Advanced Certification.

This subject ensures a solid understanding of Australia’s formal insolvency regime for both corporates and individuals as well as building an understanding of the complicated issue of insolvency and trusts.

This subject will meet the specialist insolvency education requirements to become a registered liquidator or registered trustee.

This subject is offered in the second half of each year (session 2).

Content 

  • The context of corporate and personal insolvency
  • Liquidations, including the new streamlined liquidation process
  • Bankruptcy, Personal Insolvency Agreements and Debt Agreements
  • Receiverships
  • Insolvency and trusts

Prerequisites 

You must satisfy at least one of the below prerequisites to enrol in this subject:

  1. ARITA Advanced Certification: Fundamentals of Restructuring, Insolvency and Turnaround.

       2. If you’ve completed the Insolvency Education Program (IEP) you will be deemed to have passed both Fundamentals of Restructuring, Insolvency and Turnaround and Advanced Insolvency subjects. You can enrol in this subject as a refresher.
Note: There is no time limit for recognition of prior completion of the IEP if you can show continuing professional development in insolvency, restructuring or turnaround in the intervening period.  

       3. If you’ve obtained ARITA professional membership without completing the IEP and remain as a Professional Member, you are deemed to have fulfilled the prerequisites for this subject. Any deemed satisfaction of pre-requisite requirements by ARITA is not binding on UTS in respect of any further studies.

Course delivery & time commitment

The course structure ensures that it is accessible to all students, no matter where they are located.
ARITA will run three workshops as part of the Advanced Insolvency subject. Workshops are offered face-to-face as well as online.

You should allow 10-12 hours per week to complete the subject requirements. This subject runs for 14 weeks including breaks.

Assessment

There are 2 components that make up the Advanced Insolvency subject – the UTS component and ARITA workshops.

You must pass both the UTS component and ARITA workshops to pass the subject.

UTS component

  • Problem-based assignment 
  • Take home exam (compulsory pass component) 

ARITA workshops (3)

  • Submitted written answers
  • Participation in workshops (in-person or online)
  • Marked written answers (where an exemption to workshop attendance has been granted)

2023* Key dates and course outline

*The 2024 key dates and course outline will be available prior to enrolments opening in May.

 Enrolment opens
  8 May 2023  
 Enrolment closes     21 July 2023
 Subject begins     31 July 2023
 ARITA Workshop 1      Week of 28 August 2023
 UTS Assessment task 1: problem based assignment     13 September 2023
 Mid-session break   18 to 24 September 2023  
 ARITA Workshop 2      Week of 25 September 2023
 ARITA Workshop 3     Week of 16 October 2023
 StuVac (study break)   30 October to 03 November 2023 
 UTS Assessment task 2: Take home exam     6 November 2023
 Subject ends     6 November 2023

Download the 2023 course outline.  

Frequently asked questions

Read answers to frequently asked questions.

Enquiries

Please contact the ARITA Education team on [email protected] or (02) 8004 4351.