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In terms of Section 4 of the Companies Act, 2008, there is a solvency and liquidity test.<\/p>\n
Solvency relates to the assets of the company, fairly valued, being equal or exceeding the liabilities of the company. Liquidity relates to the company being able to pay its debt as they become due in the ordinary course of business for a period of 12 months.<\/p>\n
1. A company satisfies the solvency and liquidity test at a particular time if, considering all reasonably foreseeable financial circumstances of the company at that time<\/strong><\/p>\n (a) the assets of the company, as fairly valued, equal or exceed the liabilities of the company, as fairly valued; and 2. For the purposes contemplated in subsection (1)<\/strong><\/p>\n (a) any financial information to be considered concerning the company must be based on<\/p>\n (i) accounting records that satisfy the requirements of section 28; and<\/p>\n (ii) financial statements that satisfy the requirements of section 29;<\/p>\n (b) subject to paragraph (c), the board or any other person applying the solvency and liquidity test to a company (ii) may consider any other valuation of the company\u2019s assets and liabilities that is reasonable in the circumstances; and<\/p>\n (c)\u00a0 unless the Memorandum of Incorporation of the company provides otherwise, when applying the test in respect of a distribution contemplated in paragraph (a) of the definition of \u2018distribution\u2019 in section 1, a person is not to include as a liability any amount that would be required, if the company were to be liquidated at the time of the distribution, to satisfy the preferential rights upon liquidation of shareholders whose preferential rights upon liquidation are superior to the preferential rights upon liquidation of those receiving the distribution.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_sidebar orientation=”right” area=”et_pb_widget_area_1″ show_border=”off” _builder_version=”4.16″ header_text_align=”center” header_font_size=”16″ text_orientation=”left” custom_padding=”5px|5px|5px|5px” custom_css_title=”color:white;” border_radii=”on|3px|3px|3px|3px” border_color_all=”#00727d” global_colors_info=”{}”] THE SOLVENCY AND LIQUIDITY TEST In terms of Section 4 of the Companies Act, 2008, there is a solvency and liquidity test. Solvency relates to the assets of the company, fairly valued, being equal or exceeding the liabilities of the company. Liquidity relates to the company being able to pay its debt as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":149,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15671","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15674,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15671\/revisions\/15674"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cipc.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
(b) it appears that the company will be able to pay its debts as they become due in the ordinary course of business for a period of \u2013<\/p>\n\n
(i) must consider a fair valuation of the company\u2019s assets and liabilities, including any reasonably foreseeable contingent assets and liabilities, irrespective of whether or not arising as a result of the proposed distribution, or otherwise; and<\/p>\n
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