Director Conduct Reporting Service - Rules Engine

The purpose of the rules engine is to do an initial assessment of whether there is director misconduct in an insolvent company and flag the cases where there are and aren't any conduct matters to consider. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the answers provided on the Director Conduct Reporting Service.

is required, without the need for manual intervention. Reports on around 25,000 insolvent companies are currently passed through the rules engine each year and this identifies approximately 8,500 to 9,000 cases for initial investigation. Without the rules engine, significant resource would be required to look at the content of each completed report to assess if there were potential conduct issues.

If an office holder does not agree with an outcome or has new evidence, they can ask for a review, which will be carried out by a human. A review may also be carried out if we receive information for any other source that suggests a review may be required.

No data set has been used to develop the model. See 2.2.1. Questions relate to matters as the total of monies owed to creditors, whether accounting records have been delivered etc.