Due to the global slowdown of the economic, a lot of small
businesses find themselves in a position with increasing
burden of business debt, but with reducing income in the
months to come.
The usual way to get rid of business debt in the United States
for those small businesses is for them to file bankruptcy.
The filing of bankruptcy prevents the debtors from collecting
business debts against those small businesses. However,
there is significant downside involving the filing of the
bankruptcy.
Most of the small businesses are relying upon their
reputations in the market to make money. They have spent
their time, effort and money in developing the business
names as well as the goodwill associated therewith in the
market to attract customers. The filing of bankruptcy is a
public record. Such filing will hurt the image and the goodwill
of the business, and will make the business very difficult to
recover from the bankruptcy and continue on to attract more
business in the market from the customers.
After the filing of bankruptcy, it will also be difficult for the
business to have any credit from future vendors. All the
future vendors will request payment upfront from the
business with bankruptcy filing in order for the vendors to
sell products or services to the business. This will hurt the
cash-flow situation of the business significantly.
In order to avoid all these problems, but still get rid of the
existing business debt, the small business can achieve the
same goal through proper corporate re-structure. Proper
planning and execution of the corporate re-structure will be
able to help small business to get rid of the existing business
debt without go through the bankruptcy filing.
If you are a small business and struggle with the increasing
business debt, please contact us for a free evaluation of the
situation.