Controlling the action of some enterprises' avoiding the debt and protecting the creditor's interest of gaining fair payment is the basic problem needing to solve by the law of bankruptcy.

However, quite a number of the child companies stays "closed" like hibernation or is operated only for illegal purposes such as debt evasion.

It would be foolish for a manager to make a three-year loan when his own investors could cut and run within a year; the mismatch of assets and liabilities could be ruinous.