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The most dishonorable act that can dishonor a man."" Such is Felix Grandet's unsparing view of bankruptcy, adding that even a highway robber-who at least ""risks his own life in attacking you""-is worthier of respect. Indeed, the France of Balzac's day was an unforgiving place for borrowers. Each year, thousands of debtors found themselves arrested for commercial debts. Those who wished to escape debt imprisonment through bankruptcy sacrificed their honor-losing, among other rights and privilege...

"Information that professionals with their own practice need to know to make sure they are taking all of the business tax deductions they are entitled to. The new edition is fully updated to cover all changes in tax laws, including substantive changes and updated tax numbers"--Provided by publisher.

The ICAEW Certificate in Insolvency Study Manual covers all key areas of the syllabus including the legal and regulatory frameworks, concepts and principles of insolvency, corporate insolvency and personal insolvency. The Study Manual includes short and long questions for practise, chapter summaries and self test questions to help consolidate learning and test understanding, as well as analysis of past exams and study technique tips.

After a long period of prosperity and steady economic growth, the world's leading economies are now in crisis, and although there will be debate about its origins, the scale and seriousness of the crisis is in no doubt. There is also no doubt that excessive amounts of consumer credit, allied to a weak understanding of how globalised credit markets might react to a crisis, have played a significant part. This book, which is primarily about credit, debt and the trouble they have led to, is written...

The ICAEW Certificate in Insolvency Question Bank covers all key areas of the syllabus including the legal and regulatory frameworks, concepts and principles of insolvency, corporate insolvency and personal insolvency. The Question Bank will help test your knowledge of the syllabus by grouping key areas to focus your revision, providing revision tests and the ICAEW pilot paper is included for additional practice before the real exam.

Financial Management in Practice aims, as the title suggests, to go beyond a classic academic approach to financial management, by illustrating theoretical insights with concrete cases. The book is structured according to this ethos of practicality.Beginning with a description of the current banking and entrepreneurial landscape, the book proceeds to examine the basic concept of financial management. The business plan and financial plan then become the working tools in the author's search for op...

After Enron first describes the conditions that led to the collapse of Enron and other corporate scandals and the concerns that these developments raised among the public, the press, and political officials. The book then describes and evaluates the initial private and public responses to these developments and concludes that most of these responses were unnecessary, harmful, or inadequate. There are four major lessons learned during the post-Enron scandal era: Don't count too much on financia...

With individual voluntary arrangements assuming an increasingly dominant position within personal insolvency law over the last 35 years, this timely book presents a concise yet authoritative guide to this formal debt relief mechanism. It analyses the statutory framework and how this has been interpreted and applied by the courts, as well as the policies that guide it. Key Features: Overview of the essential nature of the law and its effect on the debtor, the creditors, and third partiesFocus o...

This book covers the pressing issues of cross-border cases involving admiralty and bankruptcy law. For example, what should happen when a shipowner files an insolvency proceeding in one country, while at the same time facing an in rem action against its vessel in another country? Should the in rem action arising in one country be stayed or dismissed because of the existence of insolvency proceedings in another country? The book discusses the relevant issues regarding the treatment of maritime...