Financial Surveys
This report is one of a series of comprehensive titles available from Key Note, each of which is designed to help you target or evaluate companies in a particular industry sector or particular region of the UK. Businesses have relied upon these informative reports for many years for a variety of key business and marketing activities they undertake. With your selection from the range available, you too can benefit from the concise and precise information each report brings you.
The following are key frequently-asked questions. The answers should give you a greater insight into the content of each report you purchase.
Where does the information come from?
In compiling each report, Key Note's dedicated editorial team asks our database of comprehensive information, pertinent questions on over 1.4 million limited British companies.
The prime source for the information is all relevant accounts and annual returns as well as other documents filed at Companies House. This information is evaluated, analysed and standardised. It is then supplemented and enhanced from a variety of other sources of information and additional analysis.
Address Information
A variety of comprehensive sources are used to bring you up-to-date addresses, telephone and fax numbers. These include leading telephone directory companies, post office address files, company reports, telephone research and more.
Contact Information
Key Note provides you with the most up-to-date details of company directors and company secretaries from Annual Returns and any subsequent change documents filed at Companies House. Directors' details are updated on Key Note's database every day.
Credit Score
Developed in association with CreditScorer Ltd, the score uses a propriety measuring system, matching each company to a dynamic set of indicators. Constant measurement of the performance of companies which have become insolvent is undertaken, and this is mapped to companies which are still actively trading. Indicators are varied and include financial and non-financial information from submitted accounts and annual reports, charges lodged at Company House, local economic conditions, and County Court Judgments against individual companies. The score indicates the potential for a company to become insolvent within the next 12-months. On a scale of 1-100, a score of 1 indicates a high risk of insolvency and 100 indicates a minimal risk.
Turnover Range and Employee Number Range
Where companies do not disclose their turnover or employee numbers, an estimated range is provided for you. These estimates are calculated by comparing companies to those which do file turnovers and employee numbers in the same industry sector(s).
Principal Activity
Details of the main activities of each company are given. These are derived either from analysis of the company's description of its activities in its financial documents, or from the description of its main Standard Industry Classification (SIC) code.
Which companies are included?
The reports bring you marketing and financial information for limited British companies, registered at Companies House and actively trading in the area covered by the report.
Industries
Companies actively trading in the industry sector or sectors covered by the report, as defined by their analysed trading activity, main SIC code or company name.
Regions
Companies with their head office (trading address) in the postcode areas covered by the report.
Which companies are not included?
Some companies are excluded from the reports for the following reasons:
- No accounts filed for over 2-years prior to publication of this report
- Assets of less than £25,000 (this value may be higher for larger reports
- Accounts are not filed in GBP
- Not a live trading company
- Registered with FPS (Fax Preference Service)
What financial information is provided for each company?
Under the Companies Act 1981 and as amended by the Companies Act 1985 and 1989, UK disclosure laws were brought into line with the requirements of the EEC Fourth Directive on company accounts disclosure. The principal effect of this move in the UK has been to reduce the amount of information required for some companies in terms of disclosure of turnover and profits.
Where a company files such accounts, they are referred to as 'modified'. In Key Note reports, where such modified accounts do not include turnover, alternative financial data is supplied (see earlier).
Small-sized companies
Those companies which satisfy any two of the following criteria for 2 or more consecutive years in the last 3, need only submit an abbreviated balance sheet with notes:
- A turnover of less than £2.0 million
- a balance sheet total not exceeding £975,000
- an average number of employees less than or equal to 50
Medium-sized companies
Those companies which satisfy two or more of the following for 2 or more consecutive years in the last 3, must submit a balance sheet and profit & loss account, though this may be abbreviated and not include turnover:
- a turnover of less than £8.0 million
- a balance sheet total not exceeding £3.9 million
- an average number of employees less than or equal to 250
These exemptions are not applicable to public companies, banking, insurance or shipping companies and companies (except dormant companies) which are members of a group which includes a public company, a corporate body which can offer its shares or debentures to the public, or a recognised bank, licensed institution or insurance company.
Did you know?
That those reports which cover diverse industries or several postcode areas are subdivided into 'subsectors' for you? Effectively, this means you get several reports in one, each focused on a precise area for ease of reference.
Financial Survey Reports are accessible online (CSV file). Should you wish to query the data in more depth or conduct quick and easy mail merges, this will be of great use to you. To find out more, call 020 8481 8750 or email info@keynote.co.uk
