ABACUS CONSULT LTD

🌳Matureactive

05032108 · ltd · incorporated 2004-02-02

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 Jul 2025

Net worth

£125.8k

book net assets

Opportunity

81/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities

Sector: Professional, scientific & technical

Investor take

Pursue

Asset-holding vehicle with a 63-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 63). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Biggest value-creation lever: Cash flow review and working-capital discipline. Cash down -67% YoY — forensic review of receivables, stock turns, and creditor days. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (67/100)

Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.

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

8 officers (3 active, 8 linked, 3 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)

Director network

Network not yet resolved

Filing history

59 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

81/100Exceptional

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

Positive net assets

Net assets £125,837

Cash draining

Cash down 67% YoY

Cash YoY

-67%

Year on year

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

£39k

↓ 67% YoY

Net Worth

£126k

↑ 41% YoY

Current Assets

£260k

↑ 6.5% YoY

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-07-28	2024-07-28
Total assets	£135.0k	£108.6k
Current assets	£260.2k	£244.3k
Cash	£38.9k	£117.8k
Debtors	£215.8k	£113.6k
Net assets	£125.8k	£89.3k

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

🔒Filing-note intelligence

2 signals 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

filing

• 1 accounts

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 confirmation-statement

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (29 events)Click to expand

2026-04-30
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2025-05-06
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2024-04-26
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2023-04-28
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2022-04-25
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2021-04-20
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2020-04-21
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2019-04-26
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2018-04-18
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2017-04-28
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2016-04-27
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2016-02-25
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2015-04-22
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2015-02-17
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2014-04-29
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2005-02-08
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GANNON, Keith Phillip resigned
secretary
2005-02-08
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GANNON, Keith Phillip resigned
director
2005-01-30
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BOSWARVA, Shane appointed
secretary
2004-11-30
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JAMES-GANNON, Paula resigned
secretary
2004-11-26
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ABEL, Peter appointed
director
2004-11-26
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BOSWARVA, Shane appointed
director
2004-02-05
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GANNON, Keith Phillip appointed
secretary
2004-02-05
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JAMES-GANNON, Paula appointed
secretary
2004-02-05
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@UKPLC CLIENT SECRETARY LTD resigned
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2004-02-05
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GANNON, Keith Phillip appointed
director
2004-02-05
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@UKPLC CLIENT DIRECTOR LTD resigned
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2004-02-02
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Company incorporated
As ABACUS CONSULT LTD
2004-02-02
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@UKPLC CLIENT SECRETARY LTD appointed
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2004-02-02
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@UKPLC CLIENT DIRECTOR LTD appointed
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Owner dependency

76/100

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.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Senior director age: Director aged approximately 63 — approaching natural succession window.

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 63. 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 21 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 22 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.)

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

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated2004-02-02

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC71122 — Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities

Registered office

Abacus House Unit 4 Paramount

Business Park Wilson Road

Tarbuck Liverpool

Merseyside

L36 6AW

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-04-28

Last made up to: 2025-07-28

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-02-16

Last: 2026-02-02

Officers (3 active · 5 resigned)

BOSWARVA, Shane→

secretary · appointed 2005-01-30

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Active

ABEL, Peter→

director · ~57y · appointed 2004-11-26

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Active

BOSWARVA, Shane→

director · ~63y · appointed 2004-11-26

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Active

GANNON, Keith Phillip→

secretary · appointed 2004-02-05 · resigned 2005-02-08

Resigned

JAMES-GANNON, Paula→

secretary · appointed 2004-02-05 · resigned 2004-11-30

Resigned

@UKPLC CLIENT SECRETARY LTD→

corporate-nominee-secretary · appointed 2004-02-02 · resigned 2004-02-05

Resigned

GANNON, Keith Phillip→

director · ~64y · appointed 2004-02-05 · resigned 2005-02-08

Resigned

@UKPLC CLIENT DIRECTOR LTD→

corporate-nominee-director · appointed 2004-02-02 · resigned 2004-02-05

Resigned

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