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    IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: City Professional Networking Event – Friday 3rd October 2014

    Please be advised that due to flooding at the usual venue, the next City Professionals’ Networking event will be held at an alternative venue

    City Professionals’ Networking lunch is a free informal networking event held monthly at Brookes Brothers Wine and Brasserie.

    If you are a regular attendee of the event, please advise your professional friends and ask them to join us at the next networking event on Friday 3rd October 2014

    Date: Friday 3rd October 2014

    Venue: The Fable Bar & Restaurant, 52 Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2FD

    Time: 1:00pm to 3:00pm+

    We look forward to seeing you all there

    Interim Management. A Part Time Option?

    By David Smith, Managing Partner For The B2Bax Consortium

     

    The common definition of Interim Management is the temporary provision of resources and skills.

    An Interim Manager can be called upon in a number of situations. A business may be in a period of transition, and requires change management skills. It may be experiencing rapid growth, or can be in a period of crisis brought about by financial and cash flow pressures. There could be a specific one off project that is required for which a company does not have the skill set or resource to undertake internally. It could simply be that a key member of staff is going to be absent for an extended period.

    The engagement of Interim Managers is more typically to be found in larger organisations, both private and public.

    What of the use of Interim Manager’s in The SME sector? The issues described above are not confined to larger companies, and more often or not the situations are more pronounced. In which case, would a company be in a position to invest in a full time Interim Manager? If the answer is no or not sure, then there may be an alternative, and that is to engage an Interim manager on a part time basis.

    A significant number of potential assignments could be carried out on a part time basis. This would be both cost effective and flexible. There may for example be a requirement for an intensive input at the beginning of the assignment, which may be scaled back over time.

    There is one further situation when the engagement of a part time Interim Manager can provide a vital service to a company, and that is to provide a bridge to the ultimate appointment of a full time role. This can be particularly important when considering the appointment of a full time Finance Director, or Financial Controller. Such an appointment may be desirable but may be seen as being a year or two further on down the road. A part time Finance Director can provide an immensely valuable contribution until the time is right for a full time appointment.

    Interim Managers can provide a very valuable resource to a company, and naturally enough there are situations where a full time appointment is the only real option. For a business owner or board considering an appointment, there may be more options open to you than you may previously have considered.

     

     

    David Smith is a freelance Finance Director/Financial Controller/Project Accountant working within the B2Bax Consortium (www.b2bax.co.uk), which he co-founded. David has worked on many interim assignments over the past fifteen years, mostly within the SME sector. The vast majority of these assignments have been undertaken on a part time basis. Prior to forming the consortium, David worked for a leading management consultancy in the South East, EMC Management Consultants Limited, for eleven years. Before then David had a successful career working for large corporates.          

    Individual Voluntary Arrangements – The Pros and Cons

    by Julian Donnelly

    10th September 2014

    This is for general guidance purposes – please seek independent professional advice if you are considering an IVA.

    In an IVA, the debtor approaches a licensed Insolvency Practitioner (IP) to propose an IVA. The IP will then draw up a proposal for the unsecured creditors (such as credit cards, personal loans and overdrafts etc) and present it at a pre-arranged creditors meeting. The creditors then have to vote in favour (75% by value of the debt) for the IVA to go ahead. The debtor then makes the agreed monthly payments to the IP and at the end of the term (usually 5 years), the outstanding balance is written off.

    The advantages and disadvantages of a “full term” IVA:

    Advantages

    • Interest frozen
    • Opportunity to write off some of the debt
    • Usually a period of 60 months (5 years)
    • Creditors must stop chasing if the arrangement is accepted by 75% of the monetary amount of the debt
    • Court ratified procedure, although no need to attend
    • Discreet solution

    Disadvantages

    • Regular monthly payments must be met for the period of the arrangement
    • Creditors have the right to vote for or against the proposal
    • Any increase in the equity of a property may have to be realised for the benefit of your creditors during the term
    • Payments may be raised if your income increases
    • Credit rating is detrimentally affected

     

     

    The advantages and disadvantages of a “full and final” IVA:

    Advantages

    • Interest frozen
    • Opportunity to write off some of the debt
    • Quick process (usually 90 days)
    • Creditors must stop chasing if the arrangement is accepted by 75% of the monetary amount of the voting debt
    • Court ratified procedure, although no need to attend

    Disadvantages

    • Lump sum is required
    • Creditors have the right to vote for or against the proposal
    • The settlement figure needs to be at the value of all realisable assets and there cannot be any disposable income available
    • Credit rating is detrimentally affected

     

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