What this is. Every week we read the complete Australian corporate-failure tape: every company entering external administration or receivership on the public record. We clean it, match it to the names your ledger actually knows, and publish what the week means. Members receive the full Ledger File (a CSV of every appointment) and a monthly committee-ready sector and state view.
Sources. The spine is ASIC's insolvency statistics (Series 1 and 2), released under Creative Commons and attributed to ASIC/Commonwealth of Australia. Around it we join other public registers: ASIC company and business-name extracts, the registered liquidators register, the ABR, AusTender and state contract disclosures, the ATO's corporate tax transparency population, WGEA reporting, the ACNC register, the NDIS Provider Register and payment-times reports. Every column in the Ledger File names its source in the in-file guide.
Entity resolution. Companies are keyed by ACN, not by name, because names change. Former and trading names come from registered name histories, which is how a bare “A.C.N.” entry on the raw register gets matched back to the brand on your invoice. Practitioner firms are normalised against the registered liquidators register so the firm column pivots cleanly.
Verification. Before any company is named in an article, its appointment is checked against the published notice, and brand-to-entity links are confirmed on the current registers. Claims that cannot be verified are not printed.
Revisions and corrections. ASIC treats recent weeks as provisional and revises them as late lodgements arrive. Every issue is pinned to the source release it was built from, and that release is cited in the footer. If a revision changes a number we have published, we restate it in print and say so; corrections are never silent. Members who forwarded affected material are asked to forward the correction.
The Receipts. Forward-looking calls are logged with a grading date and a pre-committed pass/fail line, and graded in print when the data lands, including the misses.
What this is not. The Ledger File is a completeness sweep, not an alarm; bureau monitoring will alert you faster on names you already watch. Entering external administration is a fact of the public record and implies no wrongdoing by any company or person. Nothing here is legal or financial advice.
Questions about the method: [email protected]. We read everything.