Resources | Insolvency and COVID-19: New Zealand
If your business, practice or clients are in financial distress during this time, it is important to seek help early. View our updated resources to help you with insolvency.
Reasons why businesses go insolvent:
- Loss of major customer
- New competitor
- Business growing too fast
- Business outgrowing its founders’ know-how
Signs to look for with your business and your clients:
- Time spent on financial crisis is more than time spent managing the business
- Cashflow tightened
- Forecast targets consistently missed
- Accounts payable days stretching from 30 to 90 days plus
- Superannuation and tax obligations sliding
Read more about these reasons and signs, and how you can help save companies from insolvency in the article below.
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Guidance for New Zealand companies in financial distress
This guidance outlines some of the options available as part of the relief measures introduced by the New Zealand Government around insolvent trading laws, resulting from the COVID-19 environment.
Navigating and making decisions during COVID-19: Decision tree
CA ANZ has designed a decision tree tool for our members in New Zealand and Australia aimed to help business make decisions in a COVID-19 world.
'Tips on managing clients effectively through COVID & beyond' webinar
View a recording of the webinar on our COVID-19 Sharing Knowledge Webinar Sessions page.
'NZ - Tax, Insolvency & Regional support changes' webinar
View a recording of the webinar on our COVID-19 Sharing Knowledge Webinar Sessions page.
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Continuing professional development - Webinar: Insolvency & COVID 19
Keep up to date with insolvency developments impacting New Zealand SMEs and businesses in this 1-hour introduction webinar, where you will hear insights on business’s ability to stay solvent amid a financial and economic crisis.
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Some COVID support measures may end in a few months, but should you wait until then to call time on a borderline business?
Australian Institute of Company Directors - Insolvency Preparedness: The shifting eye of the storm
This webinar will provide suggested strategies around the courses of action available to directors dealing with the prospect of insolvency in their own company or within their supply chain or customer networks.
Australian Institute of Company Directors - Insolvency fears front of mind for organisations during COVID-19
An article that discusses why boards should be alert to changing financial risks.
The soft side of insolvency with Joshua Robb
Peter Rupp FCA, President of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, speaks to Joshua Robb CA, Associate Director at specialist accounting and expert advisory firm SV Partners, on the Gen CA podcast.