New Business Survey: SME Finance and Credit Management

A new CMRC  survey of UK Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, with a focus on finance, financial and B2B credit management, is shortly to be launched.
Those interested in participating or in the results and analysis should contact nw@lubs.leeds.ac.uk

New Research on Governance, Ownership and Insolvency Risk

Abstract   A Research paper shortly to be released by CMRC shows that having a balance of skills and gender on the Board of companies significantly reduces insolvency risk. The research analyses data on over 900,000 companies including 17,500 insolvencies in 2008.