ABBEY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive

03728541 · ltd · incorporated 1999-03-09

Investment thesis

Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.

Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.

Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Mar 2025

Net worth

£-64.5k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Management consultancy activities other than financial management

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pass (distressed without resilience)

Distressed active trading company — structural issues outweigh the discount.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 65). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -73% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: high (80/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

Confirmed no charges registered

Directors & officers

6 officers (2 active, 6 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

2 active PSC(s) of 2 total, 2 with control declared

Director network

7 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

79 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · FRS 102

Negative net assets

Liabilities exceed assets by £64,548

Cash draining

Cash down 73% YoY

Cash YoY

-73%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£616

↓ 73% YoY

Net Worth

-£65k

↓ 74% YoY

Current Assets

£2k

↓ 66% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-03-31	2024-03-31
Total assets	£-63.9k	£-36.5k
Current assets	£1.7k	£5.1k
Cash	£616	£2.3k
Debtors	£1.1k	£2.8k
Net assets	£-64.5k	£-37.2k

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 confirmation-statement
• 1 accounts

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (26 events)Click to expand

2025-12-18
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2024-12-19
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2023-12-21
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2022-12-20
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2021-12-14
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2020-12-29
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2020-02-14
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2019-10-09
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2018-12-21
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2017-12-11
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2017-01-09
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2016-09-13
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2016-03-11
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2016-03-11
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2016-03-10
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SIMPSON, Dawn Karen Louise appointed
director
2015-12-31
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2011-03-14
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GOULD, Peter resigned
secretary
2000-05-02
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LEAHEY, Steven Leslie resigned
director
1999-03-30
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SIMPSON, Gregory appointed
director
1999-03-30
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GOULD, Peter appointed
secretary
1999-03-30
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED resigned
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1999-03-30
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LEAHEY, Steven Leslie appointed
director
1999-03-30
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INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED resigned
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1999-03-09
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Company incorporated
As ABBEY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS LIMITED
1999-03-09
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SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED appointed
corporate-nominee-secretary
1999-03-09
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INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED appointed
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Owner dependency

91/100

Critical — business is the founder

The business appears inseparable from the founder. Acquisition without a serious earn-out or meaningful transition period would likely destroy value.

FACTORS

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 27 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 65 — succession pressure is live.
+Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.

Succession & seller-readiness

86/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 65. Approaching typical UK retirement age — succession thinking likely.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 27 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 27 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

clean

No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

Shareholders & ownership

2 active beneficial owners

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Mr Greg Simpson Individual · British · DOB 05/1961 · age 65	50–75%	50–75%	board control50-75% shares · 50-75% voting · board control	14/02/2020
Mrs Dawn Karen Louise Simpson Individual · British · DOB 08/1969 · age 57	25–50%	—	25-50% shares	01/01/2017

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1999-03-09

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC70229 — Management consultancy activities other than financial management

Registered office

Upper Eyton Farmouse

Alberbury

Shrewsbury

Shropshire

SY5 9AB

England

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-12-31

Last made up to: 2025-03-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-22

Last: 2026-02-08

Officers (2 active · 4 resigned)

SIMPSON, Dawn Karen Louise→

director · ~57y · appointed 2016-03-10

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

SIMPSON, Gregory→

director · ~65y · appointed 1999-03-30

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

GOULD, Peter→

secretary · appointed 1999-03-30 · resigned 2011-03-14

Resigned

SWIFT INCORPORATIONS LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 1999-03-09 · resigned 1999-03-30

Resigned

LEAHEY, Steven Leslie→

director · ~72y · appointed 1999-03-30 · resigned 2000-05-02

Resigned

INSTANT COMPANIES LIMITED→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 1999-03-09 · resigned 1999-03-30

Resigned

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Recent filings (79 total)

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-02-19

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2025-12-18

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-03-13

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2024-12-19

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-03-01

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2023-12-21

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confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-03-11

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2022-12-20

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-03-12

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2021-12-14

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-02-19

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2020-12-29

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2020-02-14

notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC01

2020-02-14

accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full

accounts · AA

2019-10-09