Insolvency and financial distress [[electronic resource] ] : how to avoid it and survive it / / Brian Finch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461287803321
• Autore: Finch Brian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Bloomsbury Pub., 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-47931-1; 9786613479310; 1-4081-5397-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Disciplina: 332.75
• Soggetti: Bankruptcy; Financial crises; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Knowing you have a problem; Legal action; 'Not yet'; The letter from your accountant; The audit opinion; Common causes of financial distress; Legal disputes; What to do; Chapter 2: dealing with the stress of financial distress; Human causes; Human consequences; Chapter 3: avoiding insolvency; A digression: the immediate and urgent; What are the options?; Chapter 4: Practical problems; Cessation of service and supply; Dealing with tax authorities; Dealing with landlords; Dealing with banks; Dealing with bailiffs; Credit ratingsRetention of title; Winding-up petition; Chapter 5: alternatives to insolvency; Company restructuring; Raise new funds; Tax benefits for investors; Sell the business; Compound with creditors; Chapter 6: Types of insolvency and terms used; Preparing for insolvency; Administration; Receivership; Administrative receivership; Members' Voluntary Liquidation; Creditors' Voluntary Liquidation; Creditors' Compulsory Liquidation; Landlords' rights in insolvency; Chapter 7: Using administration to save your business; The pre-pack; Evaporation of value; Finding an administrator; Costs and other issues of administrationComplaints; Chapter 8: ; Implications for directors; Fraudulent preference; Wrongful trading; Corporate governance; Chapter 9: Starting again; Getting a bank account; Utilities; Suppliers; Chapter 10: Practical steps for investors, creditors and employees; Shareholders; Creditors - what to do; Detailed actions; Enforcement; Debtors and county court claims; The statutory demand; What a debtor should do about a statutory demand; Interest on late payment; Recovering money from an insolvent company; Landlords; Employees: what happens, what to do. Pensions.; Chapter 11: Buying from an administratorBuying your own business; Buying an unconnected business; Characteristics of purchase from administration; Chapter 12: Getting help; Relevant websites; Relevant legislation; Glossary; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W
• Sommario/riassunto: Avoiding insolvency is a key challenge for any business: even in good economic times, one in three small businesses goes bust every year, and in the current fraught climate, companies of all sizes are facing financial distress. According to the UK government's Insolvency Service, in the first quarter of 2011 alone, there were over 4,000 compulsory liquidations and creditors' voluntary liquidations in total in England and Wales. In this book, Brian Finch offers information and advice for people connected with businesses in financial distress. The main aim is to avoid insolvency wherever possibl

Health, luck, and justice [[electronic resource] /] / Shlomi Segall

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781069603321
• Autore: Segall Shlomi <1970->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-282-93592-5; 1-4008-3171-7; 9786612935923; 1-282-47316-6; 9786612473166; 0-691-14053-7
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetti: Social medicine; Health services accessibility; Equality - Health aspects; Medical policy - Social aspects; Social justice
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Justice, Luck, and Equality -- Part I. Health Care -- 2. Responsibility- Insensitive Health Care -- 3. Ultra- Responsibility- Sensitive Health Care: "All- Luck Egalitarianism" -- 4. Tough Luck? Why Luck Egalitarians Need Not Abandon Reckless Patients -- 5. Responsibility- Sensitive Universal Health Care -- Part II. Health -- 6. Why Justice in Health? -- 7. Luck Egalitarian Justice in Health -- 8. Equality or Priority in Health? -- 9. Distributing Human Enhancements -- Part III. Health without Borders -- 10. Devolution of Health Care Services -- 11. Global Justice and National Responsibility for Health -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Luck egalitarianism"--the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck--has gained ground in recent years and is now the main rival to John Rawls's theory of distributive ; justice. Health, Luck, and Justice is the first attempt to systematically apply luck egalitarianism to the just distribution of health and health care. Challenging Rawlsian approaches to health policy, Shlomi Segall develops an account of just health that is sensitive to considerations of luck and personal responsibility, arguing that people's health and the health care they receive are just only when society works to neutralize the effects of bad luck. Combining philosophical analysis with a discussion of real-life public health issues, Health, Luck, and Justice addresses key questions: What is owed to patients who are in some way responsible for their own medical conditions? Could inequalities in health and life expectancy be just even when they are solely determined by the "natural lottery" of genes and other such factors? And is it just to allow political borders to affect the quality of health care and the distribution of health? Is it right, on the one hand, to break up national health care systems in multicultural societies? And, on the other hand, should our obligation to curb disparities in health extend beyond the nation-state? By focusing on the ways health is affected by the moral arbitrariness of luck, Health, Luck, and Justice provides an important new perspective on the ethics of national and international health policy.