Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Member Voluntary Liquidation - For Solvent Companies

Liquidation is the process of terminating the business permanently and this is of many types as well. There are many ways of liquidation depending upon the type of company or the type of business. There are two types of company including solvent company and insolvent company. Different types of liquidation are used for both types. The attribute of solvency is mapped using balance sheets and the cash flow test.
For solvent company the type of liquidation used is known as member voluntary liquidation and it differs in the way of operation from others. In this the closure of any company is decided by the shareholders and a lot of decisions are also made by them. In this process the director of any company makes the declaration to sell the company within a year to pay off the debts. After this the creditors are paid, and the remaining assets and property is divided among the shareholders.

There are many reasons of selling a solvent company and one of that reasons include the choice of the owner to sell it. It depends upon the owner's choice to sell the company for any particular reason. It can also be done when assets are required to be transferred to the other company of the same group.


The remaining techniques will be discussed in the part of Canadian Liquidation.