This is a glossary of widely accepted financial & business terms. Terminology can differ, depending on local regulations.
- Administration
- Administrative Receiver
- Administrative Receivership
- Administrator
- Bailiff
- Bankruptcy
- Bond
- Charging Order
- Companies House
- Company Directors’ Disqualification Act 1986
- Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA)
- Compulsory Liquidation
- County Court Judgement (CCJ)
- Creditor
- Creditors Committee
- Creditors’ Voluntary Liquidation
- Debenture
- Debtor
- Declaration of solvency
- Disqualification
- Dissolution
- Distraint
- Dividend or Distribution
- Fixed Charge
- Floating Charge
- Fraudulent Trading
- Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA)
- Insolvency Act 1986
- Insolvency Practitioner or Licensed Insolvency Practitioner
- Insolvent Liquidation
- Licence Holder
- Lien
- Liquidation
- Liquidation Committee
- Liquidator
- Members’ Voluntary Liquidation
- Misfeasance
- Moratorium
- Official Receiver
- Partnership Voluntary Arrangement (PVA)
- Petition
- Preference
- Preferential Creditor
- Proof of Debt
- Proxy Form
- Reservation of Title
- Secured Creditor
- Shadow Director
- Statement of Affairs
- Statutory Demand
- Summons
- Transaction at an Undervalue
- Trustee in Bankruptcy
- Unsecured Creditor
- Walking Possession
- Winding Up
- Writ
- Wrongful Trading