Do the statistics surprise you?
Late last year, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) released its corporate insolvency statistics for 2018-19 financial year. Looking towards the 2020 year prompted us to consider what trends have formed over the years.
ASIC reports on 25 industry categories, which are:
| Accommodation & food services | Health care & social assistance |
| Administrative & support services | Information media & tele-communications |
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing | Manufacturing |
| Arts & recreation services | Mining |
| Construction | Other (business & personal) services |
| Education & training | Professional, scientific & technical services |
| Electricity, gas, water & waste services | Public administration & safety |
| FIS–Credit provider | Rental, hiring & real estate services |
| FIS–Deposit taking institutions | Retail trade |
| FIS–Insurance | Transport, postal & warehousing |
| FIS–Managed investments | Wholesale trade |
| FIS–Other financial services | Unknown |
| FIS–Superannuation |
Following the above, we reviewed ASIC's data (which date back to 2013) and selected the following key industries to share a preview of our findings:
- Construction
- Retail
- Transport
- Accommodation & food services
- Mining
- Agriculture
- Wholesale
- Manufacturing
- FIS (Credit provider, deposit-taking institutions, insurance, managed investments, other financial services, superannuation)
Here are the trends and profile by state/territory that have formed so far from our analysis. Look out for our upcoming The Worrells Insolvency Report: 2020, which will delve into the data and make some conclusions.
In the meantime, we'd love to hear what your views are. Do any of these trends surprise you?
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Statistics source: © Australian Securities & Investments Commission. Reproduced with permission.
Note: These statistics record the number of companies entering into a form of external administration for the first time each month by industry – from July 2013. A company will be included only once in these statistics, regardless of whether it subsequently enters into another form of external administration. The only exception occurs where a company is taken out of external administration (e.g. as the result of a court order), and at a later date re-enters external administration.
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