ACCOUNTING OFFICE SOFTWARE LTD.

🌳Matureactive

04411043 · ltd · incorporated 2002-04-08

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 23.7y old — refinance window within 12 months

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Dec 2024

Net worth

£171.3k

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Business and domestic software development

Sector: Information & communication

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 72-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (78/100, director aged 72). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

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Refinance opportunity

2 live charges · 2 lenders · oldest 23.7y

70/100

ready

Refinance conversation should be productive — structure clean and timing right.

· Oldest live charge is 23.7 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Two lenders — manageable, but coordination required.
· Legal-friction score 20/100 — clean.

Data confidence

Overall: high (84/100)

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

2 charges (2/2 with lender, 2/2 with type)

Directors & officers

16 officers (2 active, 16 linked, 12 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

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

Director network

15 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

100 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

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Signals from accounts

Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declared

Positive net assets

Net assets £171,305

Cash YoY

+1833%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£45k

↑ 1833% YoY

Net Worth

£171k

↑ 39% YoY

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown

Metric	2024-12-31	2023-12-31
Cash	£45.1k	£2.3k
Net assets	£171.3k	£122.9k

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

filing

• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (54 events)Click to expand

2025-07-28
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2024-10-29
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2024-09-30
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accounts · AA
2023-09-29
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2023-04-13
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cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2023-04-12
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notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC02
2022-09-30
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2022-08-30
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2021-07-15
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2021-02-14
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change-account-reference-date-company-previous-shortened
accounts · AA01
2020-12-18
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officers · AP01
2020-12-18
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officers · AP01
2020-12-18
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officers · TM01
2020-12-18
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-12-18
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termination-director-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM01
2020-12-17
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change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2020-12-10
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MARTIN, John Charles appointed
director
2020-12-10
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TAYLOR, James Anthony appointed
director
2020-12-10
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ANNS, Barry John resigned
director
2020-12-10
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DU PRÉ, Lindsay Gail resigned
director
2020-12-10
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DU PRÉ, Piers Derek resigned
director
2020-12-01
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accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2020-09-02
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appoint-person-director-company-with-name-date
officers · AP01
2020-09-01
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2020-08-21
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MILLAR, Kieran Thomas resigned
secretary
2020-08-21
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DU PRÉ, Lindsay Gail appointed
director
2020-08-21
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DU PRÉ, Piers Derek appointed
director
2020-08-21
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JONES, Richard Allan resigned
director
2020-08-21
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MILLAR, Kieran Thomas resigned
director
2018-05-10
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RASTALL, Paul Daniel resigned
director
2015-04-01
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HOLLAMBY, Kim resigned
director
2014-04-29
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Charge satisfied #2
2013-07-18
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ANNS, Barry John appointed
director
2013-07-18
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HOLLAMBY, Kim appointed
director
2013-07-18
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JONES, Richard Allan appointed
director
2013-07-18
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RASTALL, Paul Daniel appointed
director
2013-04-10
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Charge satisfied #1
2013-04-05
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MILLAR, Kieran Thomas appointed
secretary
2013-04-05
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MILLAR, Kieran Thomas appointed
director
2013-04-05
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RICHARDS, Ian Edward resigned
director
2012-10-03
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RICHARDS, Tracy Angela resigned
secretary
2012-09-05
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HARRIS, Jonathan Michael resigned
director
2007-11-23
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Charge registered #2
Lender: Bank of Scotland PLC
2003-09-29
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RICHARDS, Ian Edward appointed
director
2003-09-29
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RICHARDS, Tracy Angela resigned
director
2002-09-06
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Charge registered #1
Lender: Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC
2002-08-01
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GCBIZ SECRETARIES LTD resigned
corporate-nominee-secretary
2002-08-01
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GCBIZ DIRECTORS LTD resigned
corporate-nominee-director
2002-07-31
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RICHARDS, Tracy Angela appointed
secretary
2002-07-31
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HARRIS, Jonathan Michael appointed
director

Showing most recent 50 of 54 events

Owner dependency

73/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

+Two-director setup: Only two active directors — typical of owner-managed SMEs but limits succession.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 72 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

76/100

Likely off-market candidate

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

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 72 years old. Natural succession window is now.
secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 24 years old and no new directors in the last 3 years — succession not yet being planned internally.

Red flags

clean

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

Group structure

Qudos Group Ltd is the ultimate parent — holding 75%+ shares. This company sits inside their group.

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Qudos Group Ltd

Corporate parent · holds 75-100% shares · board control

ultimate parent

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ACCOUNTING OFFICE SOFTWARE LTD.

This company · 04411043

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner · dominant holder ≥75%

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Qudos Group Ltd Corporate entity	75–100%	75–100%	board control75-100% shares · 75-100% voting · board control	05/04/2021

1 historic (ceased) PSC

Mr Piers Derek Du Préceased 10/12/2020· 75-100% shares

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

🔒Co-director network graph

Radial SVG graph showing every company connected via shared directors, colour-coded by status.

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7 specific questions generated from this company's actual signals — liquidity, leverage, director age, charge count, red flags, age-of-company.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Exit-route ranking, improvement thesis, quiet-distress detector, covenant-pressure proxy, extraction monitor, approaching triggers, ownership drift, local cluster, value trap, debt capacity, archetype classification — 48+ scoring modules.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2002-04-08

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC62012 — Business and domestic software development

Registered office

Pen Y Bryn

Tonna Uchaf

Neath

Neath Port Talbot

SA11 3JT

Wales

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2026-09-30

Last made up to: 2024-12-31

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-04-22

Last: 2026-04-08

Officers (2 active · 14 resigned)

MARTIN, John Charles→

director · ~72y · appointed 2020-12-10

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

TAYLOR, James Anthony→

director · ~54y · appointed 2020-12-10

View their other companies + combined net worth →

Active

MILLAR, Kieran Thomas→

secretary · appointed 2013-04-05 · resigned 2020-08-21

Resigned

RICHARDS, Tracy Angela→

secretary · appointed 2002-07-31 · resigned 2012-10-03

Resigned

GCBIZ SECRETARIES LTD→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2002-04-08 · resigned 2002-08-01

Resigned

ANNS, Barry John→

director · ~47y · appointed 2013-07-18 · resigned 2020-12-10

Resigned

DU PRÉ, Lindsay Gail→

director · ~77y · appointed 2020-08-21 · resigned 2020-12-10

Resigned

DU PRÉ, Piers Derek→

director · ~78y · appointed 2020-08-21 · resigned 2020-12-10

Resigned

HARRIS, Jonathan Michael→

director · ~62y · appointed 2002-07-31 · resigned 2012-09-05

Resigned

HOLLAMBY, Kim→

director · ~65y · appointed 2013-07-18 · resigned 2015-04-01

Resigned

JONES, Richard Allan→

director · ~59y · appointed 2013-07-18 · resigned 2020-08-21

Resigned

MILLAR, Kieran Thomas→

director · ~57y · appointed 2013-04-05 · resigned 2020-08-21

Resigned

RASTALL, Paul Daniel→

director · ~50y · appointed 2013-07-18 · resigned 2018-05-10

Resigned

RICHARDS, Ian Edward→

director · ~70y · appointed 2003-09-29 · resigned 2013-04-05

Resigned

RICHARDS, Tracy Angela→

director · ~63y · appointed 2002-07-31 · resigned 2003-09-29

Resigned

GCBIZ DIRECTORS LTD→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2002-04-08 · resigned 2002-08-01

Resigned

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Mortgages & charges

Total charges

Outstanding

Active lenders

Status:Lender:2 of 2 shown

			Type	Properties
	satisfied	Lloyds Banking Group Bank of Scotland PLC	Debenture	1 property	23/11/2007	29/04/2014
	satisfied	Lloyds Banking Group Lloyds Tsb Bank PLC	Debenture	1 property	06/09/2002	10/04/2013

Recent filings (100 total)

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2026-04-08

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

accounts · AA

2025-07-28

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2025-04-16

cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC07

2024-10-29

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

accounts · AA

2024-09-30

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2024-04-15

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

accounts · AA

2023-09-29

cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control

persons-with-significant-control · PSC07

2023-04-13

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

persons-with-significant-control · PSC02

2023-04-12

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2023-04-08

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

accounts · AA

2022-09-30

change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address

address · AD01

2022-08-30

confirmation-statement-with-no-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2022-04-22

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

accounts · AA

2021-07-15

confirmation-statement-with-updates

confirmation-statement · CS01

2021-04-19