ACCOUNTABILITY LONDON LTD
🌳Matureactive
05579459 · ltd · incorporated 2005-09-30
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
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year to Mar 2025
Net worth
£1.8k
book net assets
Opportunity
80/100
Exceptional
What this business does
Primary activity: Financial management
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
ALSO REGISTERED FOR
- 82990Other business support service activities n.e.c.
Investor take
PursueAsset-holding vehicle with a 68-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.
Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (83/100, director aged 68). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).
Data confidence
Overall: medium (69/100)Adequate coverage. AI outputs are reliable for the sections scored high; verify the rest in diligence.
Company profile
address, 2 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
2 years of iXBRL accounts extracted (YoY deltas available) + narrative notes parsed
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
5 officers (3 active, 5 linked, 2 with DOB)
78
Ownership & PSC
No PSCs filed (unusual — worth investigating)
35
Director network
1 connected companies via shared directors
48
Filing history
49 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
80/100Exceptional
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional
Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.
Business quality
70
Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.
Acquirability
80
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.
Signals from accounts
Derived from iXBRL accounts · accounting standard not declaredPositive net assets
Net assets £1,763
Net assets shrinking
Down £11,559 YoY
Cash YoY
-20%
Year on year
Key financials
2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accountsCash
£2k
↓ 20% YoY
Net Worth
£2k
↓ 87% YoY
Current Assets
£2k
↓ 82% YoY
Current Liabilities
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Financials
Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown| Metric | 2025-03-31 | 2024-03-31 |
|---|---|---|
| Total assets | £1.8k | £13.3k |
| Current assets | £2.2k | £12.7k |
| Cash | £1.9k | £2.4k |
| Debtors | £364 | £10.4k |
| Net assets | £1.8k | £13.3k |
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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See pricing →Recent activity
Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
0
filings
Last 180 days
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filings
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (23 events)Click to expand
- 2025-12-03📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2024-12-04📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2023-11-27📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2022-12-01📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2021-12-07📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2020-12-09📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2019-11-22📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-12-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-fullaccounts · AA
- 2018-01-08📄accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entityaccounts · AA
- 2016-08-19📄change-account-reference-date-company-current-extendedaccounts · AA01
- 2016-06-21📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2015-10-13📄annual-return-company-with-made-up-date-full-list-shareholdersannual-return · AR01
- 2015-06-19✏️certificate-change-of-name-companychange-of-name · CERTNM
- 2015-06-19✏️change-of-name-noticechange-of-name · CONNOT
- 2015-04-12📄accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-smallaccounts · AA
- 2005-09-30🏢Company incorporatedAs ACCOUNTABILITY LONDON LTD
- 2005-09-30➕LIBERDA MORENI, Elizabeth appointedsecretary
- 2005-09-30➕LIBERDA MORENI, Elizabeth appointeddirector
- 2005-09-30➕NICELL, Elaine appointeddirector
- 2005-09-30➕LA NOMINEE SECRETARIES LTD appointedcorporate-secretary
- 2005-09-30➖LA NOMINEE SECRETARIES LTD resignedcorporate-secretary
- 2005-09-30➕LINCROFT ASSOCIATES LIMITED appointedcorporate-director
- 2005-09-30➖LINCROFT ASSOCIATES LIMITED resignedcorporate-director
Owner dependency
83/100
Critical — business is the founderThe 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 21 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
- +Founder age: Director aged approximately 68 — succession pressure is live.
Succession & seller-readiness
86/100
Likely off-market candidateStrong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.
SIGNALS
- primaryFounder aged 63+: Senior director is approximately 68. 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 21 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
cleanNo red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)
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See pricing →Company details
Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2005-09-30
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC70221 — Financial management
Registered office
16 Makepeace Avenue
London
N6 6EJ
Filing status
Accounts
Next due: 2026-12-31
Last made up to: 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-10-14
Last: 2025-09-30
Officers (3 active · 2 resigned)
LIBERDA MORENI, Elizabeth→
Activesecretary · appointed 2005-09-30
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LIBERDA MORENI, Elizabeth→
Activedirector · ~68y · appointed 2005-09-30
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NICELL, Elaine→
Activedirector · ~67y · appointed 2005-09-30
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LA NOMINEE SECRETARIES LTD→
Resignedcorporate-secretary · appointed 2005-09-30 · resigned 2005-09-30
LINCROFT ASSOCIATES LIMITED→
Resignedcorporate-director · appointed 2005-09-30 · resigned 2005-09-30
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Recent filings (49 total)
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2025-12-03
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2025-10-07
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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2024-12-04
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2024-10-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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2023-11-27
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2023-10-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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2022-12-01
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2022-10-20
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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2021-12-07
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confirmation-statement · CS01
2021-10-11
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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2020-12-09
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2020-10-03
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
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2019-11-22
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2019-09-30
accounts-with-accounts-type-total-exemption-full
accounts · AA
2018-12-21