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by to3m 3792 days ago
You forgot to provide a link :) - https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/help/welcome

Smaller companies (and the bar is set pretty high; see https://www.gov.uk/annual-accounts/microentities-small-and-d...) can supply abbreviated accounts. These are pretty useless for anybody looking - it's just a snapshot at year end, with no information about totals over the year. The accounts for my company provide the following details:

- Money currently owed to it [A]

- Current bank account balance [B]

- Amount it currently owes [C]

- Total share capital (also available from the annual return) [D]

- P&L - A+B-C-D

- Shareholder's funds - A+B-C

It's not actually very easy to get accurate figures from this. For a software/consulting/contracting/etc. type business I suppose multiplying A by 6-12 (assuming it's 1-2 months of income owed by clients/payment processor/etc.) is probably your best guess at estimating revenue... but if the year end was at all unusual, you're out of luck. Cash in the bank is merely suggestive, and money owed could be just about anything.