Cover Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- 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 ratings -- Retention 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 administration -- Complaints -- 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 administrator -- Buying your own business -- Buying an unconnected business -- Characteristics of purchase from administration -- Chapter 12: Getting help -- Relevant websites -- Relevant legislation -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Footnotes -- Imprint.