- Companies are run by its principals.
- Some principals apply for credit facilities when they are aware or should know that the company will be unable to pay if called upon.
- In the absence of a suretyship obligation, principals are normally not personally liable for the debts of a company.
- Business certainty can be restored if the CIPC rejects applications to register new companies if the principals were previously involved in a failed business within, say, a two-year period.
- A failed business can be classified as one with a default listing, judgment and/or one that has been liquidated or placed under business rescue.