Insolvency

1.

Inability to pay financial obligations as they fall due.

2. UK law.

The inability of a company - on a balance of probabilities - to meet all of its existing, prospective and contingent liabilities, taking account of future costs and of future interest obligations.

In making this assessment, future income and future asset valuations are also taken into account.

See also

• Balance sheet insolvent
• Bankruptcy
• Cash flow insolvent
• Chapter 11
• Company voluntary arrangement
• Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act
• Cost of financial distress = insolvency costs
• Creditors
• Individual Voluntary Arrangement
• Insolvency Act
• Insolvency practitioner
• Insolvency Service
• Liquid
• Liquidate
• Liquidity
• Liquidity risk
• London Approach
• Scheme of arrangement
• Solvency
• Solvency II
• Statement of affairs
• Voluntary liquidation
• Wrongful trading