investigating

[abra]

Anyone knows where my I obtain information about other companies’ turnovers/ profits/ balance sheets, anything really to do with their financial condition. I would rather not use the commercial investigating companies, as they charge arm and the leg.
Please help.

[Alpha]

Unless they are large corporates who will have most of their investor information published on their website, you will have to pay for the information. It can be obtained from a number of sources (In fact I believe Ozzy at quickformations supplies it). Be aware however that at the other end of the scale information filed by small companies is really next to useless.

[Ozzy]

Hi Abra,
It does depend the company age and size as to whether the information I can provide is of any use or not. Generally the information on any companies who have not yet filed their first set of accounts is pretty useless. Once a company has achieved a trading history then their payment and financial patterns give something to run calculations upon.
If you want to have a look at how I can help please take a look at http://www.quickcreditreports.co.uk/ and see if that is able to help. To be honest, if the reports on there don't help then without expensive investigation there isn't much else that can be done as my reports are quite different from many others in that I don't just use Companies House data, but also data from credit reference agencies such as Experian.

[autolycus]

You can get copies of a company's basic accounts from www.companieshouse.gov.uk.

Or were you after something more than that?

Dave.

[abra]

Thank you all for response.
I had a look at the Companies House, but the only documents I got on the company I am interested in was the annual return - form 363 and current appointments report. None of them mentions anything about turnovers/ profits/ etc.
As I am not British, I have no idea where do companies send their tax forms, maybe revenue bureau share this kind of information?

[Ozzy]

If the company is less than around 18 months old they probably have not filed any accounts yet, so financial information on the company will not be available.

[Alpha]

And tax information is kept strictly private - the Inland Revenue do not share information with anyone but the taxable person and their appointed advisors

[abra]

many thanks.