Bankruptcy Balance Sheet in the Interwar Period – Evaluation of the Implementation in Modern Business Practice

Abstract

The aim of the article is to identify principles for bankruptcy balance sheet in the interwar period and to evaluate the abilities to introduce them in modern business practice. The subject of the research are companies with bankruptcy declaration in the interwar period. The main method is the analysis of the bankruptcy records of selected companies in the resources of national archive agencies. The legal regulations and analysis of the company with bankruptcy declaration are the basic of the research on principles of bankruptcy balance sheet in the interwar period. The research method consists of specific analysis of the company with bankruptcy declaration, mainly information in qualitative and descriptive form and analysis of documents. The article presents a thesis that the principles of preparing the bankruptcy balance sheet from the interwar period provide better quality information on the possibilities of satisfying creditors from the bankruptcy estate. As a result of the research we might see the possibility of introducing the interwar period’s principles in our times to improve modern balance sheets.