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NEWS STORIES, MEDIA RELEASES AND ARTICLES last updated 26 August 2024
MY SUBMISSION TO THE Senate Economics References Committee regarding its inquiry into ASIC investigation and enforcement (23/1/2023) Includes a liquidator's investigation report.
MY BLOG: "Creators of ASIC's ROCAP documents describe their process" (22/6/2019)
BLOG SITES DISCUSSING INSOLVENCY ISSUES AND NEWS last updated 30/3/2018
CHECKLISTS, DOCUMENTS AND TOOLS FOR CORPORATE INSOLVENCY (created by IRC) last updated 30/12/2017
INFORMATION SHEETS AND GUIDES by Australian Reconstructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association (ARITA) last updated 10/5/2018
SELECTED ARTICLES APPEARING IN ARITA JOURNAL; last updated 17/4/2018
NEWSLETTERS, ETC by Association of Independent Insolvency Practitioners (AIIP) last updated 22/2/2018
COURT JUDGMENTS IN CORPORATE INSOLVENCY last updated 7/6/2018
COURT JUDGMENTS IN PERSONAL INSOLVENCY last updated 19/12/2017
ASIC INFORMATION SHEETS AND FLOWCHARTS last updated 2/3/2018
REPORTS AND STATISTICS FROM ASIC last updated 1/4/2018
STATUTORY FORMS - CORPORATIONS last updated 12/10/2018
""ASIC CORPORATE INSOLVENCY UPDATE" last updated 3/10/2017 (Issue 4)
OFFICIAL REGULATORY GUIDES ISSUED BY ASIC last updated 30/3/2018
REPORT AS TO AFFAIRS (RATA) - REVISION last updated 12/10/2018
NEW PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR TRUSTEES IN BANKRUPTCY issued by AFSA 1/3/2017
BANKRUPTCY REGISTER SEARCH - ACCESS TO THE NATIONAL PERSONAL INSOLVENCY INDEX
NATIONAL PANEL OF REGISTERED TRUSTEES
LEGISLATION - CORPORATIONS last updated 12/1/2018
LEGISLATION - PERSONAL INSOLVENCY (INCLUDING BANKRUPTCY) last updated 23/12/2017
PROFESSIONALISM AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE (1980 paper) NEW 26/2/2024
CODE OF AUSTRALIAN RECONSTRUCTURING INSOLVENCY AND TURNAROUND ASSOCIATION (ARITA)
ACCOUNTING PROFESSIONAL & ETHICAL STANDARD (APES) 330 - INSOLVENCY SERVICES revised September 2014
TAX OFFICE INFORMATION FOR INSOLVENCY PRACTITIONERS
SELECTED PRACTICE STATEMENTS, DETERMINATIONS, ETC., FROM THE ATO LEGAL DATABASE last updated 3 October 2017
PUBLISHED CORPORATE INSOLVENCY NOTICES (at ASIC)
SEARCH COMPANY AND BUSINESS NAME REGISTERS (ASIC Connect)
AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL SECURITY AUTHORITY (AFSA) (Bankruptcy)
FAIR ENTITLEMENTS GUARANTEE (FEG) (Dept of Employment)
PERSONAL PROPERTY SECURITIES REGISTER (PPSR) (General)
PPSR PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES (at AFSA)
PERSONAL PROPERTY SECURITIES ACT (PPSR-Summary for External Administrators) + Business Days Calculator
AUSTRALIAN RESTRUCTURING INSOLVENCY & TURNAROUND ASSOCIATION (ARITA)
AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION (ASIC) (Home)
INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1997 compilation date 1 January 2018
INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1936 latest version - compilation date 1 July 2017
AUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTING STANDARDS current
For a list of names (in alphabetical order), addresses and licence numbers: Download from ASIC as a searchable PDF file - updated to 31 August 2017. But NOTE: The address given for a number of liquidators is incorrect (old?). Therefore the best way to find a particular liquidator is to use the free search of the ASIC Professional Registers of liquidators, on the ASIC Connect webpage. (See image for HELP.) To go to the ASIC Connect Professional Register search area CLICK HERE.
AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS: Pickles Valuation & Advisory; GraysOnline; O'Maras Valuers & Auctioneers. BANKING SERVICES: Macquarie Bank; National Australia Bank. BOOKKEEPERS: Hopscotch Accounting; Clarity Management Group. DEBT COLLECTION: Integral Collections. FINANCIAL SERVICES: FactorONE; Invoice Money. INSURANCE: Willis Towers Watson; Arthur J. Gallagher. INSOLVENCY REGISTRY SERVICES: Link Market Services. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: CORE IPS LITIGATION FUNDING: LCM; Ironbark Funding; Litigation Lending; Pretium Funding; IMF Bentham. REAL ESTATE: Agent Select. SAFETY MANAGEMENT AND INVESTIGATIONS: AOSC
* Source: ARITA website - paying advertisers 27/9/2017
ADDITIONS TO OTHER PARTS OF SITE:
Topic: Dept of Treasury (Australia) Fact Sheet 22 March 2020: "Economic Response to the Coronavirus - Temporary relief for financially distressed businesses"
Topics: "Safe Harbour" for directors and restriction of "ipso facto" clauses in contracts. "Treasury Laws Amendment (2017 Enterprise Incentives No. 2) Bill 2017 - Bills Digest No. 33, 2017-18, Parliamentary Library (Australia), 11 September 2017, by Jaan Murphy. Includes background, committee considerations, position of major interest groups, key issues, examples,and alternative proposals from interest groups. 35 pages.
" Three recent developments in insolvency law." 15 page pdf. Paper by Justice Ashley Black, Supreme Court, NSW, on liquidator's remuneration, voidable transactions, and the Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016. Presented at Corporations Law Conference in August 2016.
" Phoenix Activity: Recommendations On Detection, Disruption And Enforcement." 162 page pdf. Source:Professor Helen Anderson, Professor Ian Ramsay, Professor Michelle Welsh and research fellow Mr Jasper Hedges - Melbourne University Law School and Monash Business School., February 2017
" Worldwide Survey on Taking Security over Personal/Moveable Property and Collateral" 168 page pdf. Source: Interlaw Banking and Finance Special Business Team, March 2015
"New super guarantee laws create tax minefield for current and former directors". 16 page pdf. Source: National Tax & Accountants' Association seminar July 2014
"The regulation, registration and remuneration of insolvency practitioners in Australia: the case for a new framework". 190 page pdf. Source: Senate Committee Report, 14 September 2010
Link to INSOLVENCY NOTICES published on ASIC WEBSITEThis is an ASIC hosted website for the publication of notices, including insolvency and external administration-related notices, required to be published under the Corporations Act 2001 and Corporations Regulations. this site provides an easy to search central location for the following two categories of notices: * notices arising out of a company's external administration (eg court liquidation, voluntary administration etc); * notices of winding up applications filed with an australian court; * notices required to be published in a members voluntary winding up (winding up of a solvent company); * some notices relating to schemes of arrangements under part 5.1 of the corporations act (insolvency related); * notices relating to voluntary or asic-initiated proposals to deregister a company; * some notices relating to schemes of arrangements under part 5.1 of the Corporations Act (non-insolvency related); * notices of asic's intention to wind up a company under section 489ea of the Corporations Act. If you want to search the publication website, you don't need to register; just click on the browse/search tab and start searching. Note that the publication website only contains notices published from 1 July 2012 (when the website commenced operation). |
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Freely available datasets from ASIC and AFSA (Australian Financial Security Authority) and many other authorities are accessible from the data.gov.au website. ASIC datasets include Company Dataset, Liquidator Dataset and Business Names Dataset. AFSA datasets include Personal Insolvency Statistics. |
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• Click here for Glossary of Insolvency Terms written by ASIC • Click here for Glossary of Terms - mainly for personal insolvency - produced by AFSA • Click here for Glossary of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (Aust. Gov.) • Click here for Auditing Dictionary of Terms - from the Accounting Institute Seminars (USA)
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