APL ACCOUNTANTS LIMITED

🌳Matureactive
06047388 · ltd · incorporated 2007-01-10
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.
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Turnover
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year to Sept 2025
Net worth
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book net assets
Opportunity
81/100
Exceptional
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What this business does
Primary activity: Accounting and auditing activities
Sector: Professional, scientific & technical
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company with a 62-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 81/100 (exceptional), bankability 75/100. Strong seller-intent signal (70/100, director aged 62). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (73/100).

Data confidence

Overall: medium (79/100)

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
75
Lenders & charges
Confirmed no charges registered
85
Directors & officers
3 officers (2 active, 3 linked, 2 with DOB)
83
Ownership & PSC
2 active PSC(s) of 3 total, 3 with control declared
90
Director network
3 connected companies via shared directors
54
Filing history
59 filings on record
85
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
81/100Exceptional
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
85
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

2 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
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Net Worth
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Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
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£0£0£0£0£0£0Sept 2024Sept 2025

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · accounting standard unknown
Metric2025-09-302024-09-30
Average employees300-300

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.

Available from the Pro tier upwards.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days
0
filings
Last 90 days
3
filings
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 accounts
Last 180 days
3
filings
  • • 2 persons-with-significant-control
  • • 1 accounts
Counts from Companies House filing history.
Corporate timeline (22 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-27
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  2. 2026-05-12
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    notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
  3. 2026-05-12
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    cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
  4. 2025-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  5. 2024-06-12
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  6. 2024-03-05
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  7. 2023-06-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  8. 2022-06-26
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  9. 2022-04-09
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    change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
    address · AD01
  10. 2021-08-30
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  11. 2020-08-28
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  12. 2020-06-29
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  13. 2019-06-20
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    change-to-a-person-with-significant-control
    persons-with-significant-control · PSC04
  14. 2019-06-20
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    change-person-director-company-with-change-date
    officers · CH01
  15. 2019-05-23
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  16. 2018-06-15
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    accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
    accounts · AA
  17. 2018-05-18
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    termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
    officers · TM02
  18. 2018-05-14
    ➖
    APL ACCOUNTANTS LLP resigned
    corporate-secretary
  19. 2007-01-10
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As APL ACCOUNTANTS LIMITED
  20. 2007-01-10
    ➕
    HODGES, Peter appointed
    director
  21. 2007-01-10
    ➕
    JEFFRIES, Sandra Lynn appointed
    director
  22. 2007-01-10
    ➕
    APL ACCOUNTANTS LLP appointed
    corporate-secretary

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 20 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 62 — approaching natural succession window.

Succession & seller-readiness

69/100
Strong succession signal

Multiple signals suggest succession is on the horizon. Candidate for proactive outreach.

SIGNALS
  • secondaryFounder aged 58+: Senior director is approximately 62. Early succession window.
  • secondaryTwo-director governance: Small-team governance. Succession depth is thin but not absent.
  • secondary12+ year tenure: Director in role 20 years.
  • secondaryStable-but-static management: Company is 20 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
NameSharesVoting rightsNature of controlNotified
Miss Sandra Lynn Jeffries
Individual · British · DOB 05/1966 · age 60
25–50%
25–50%25-50% shares · 25-50% voting30/04/2026
Mr Peter Hodges
Individual · British · DOB 12/1964 · age 62
25–50%
—25-50% shares30/06/2016
1 historic (ceased) PSC
  • Miss Sandra Lynn Jeffriesceased 30/04/2026· 25-50% shares

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

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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
Incorporated2007-01-10
Jurisdictionengland-wales
Primary SIC69201 — Accounting and auditing activities

Registered office

6a South Street
Leominster
HR6 8JB
England

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-06-30
Last made up to: 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2027-01-22
Last: 2026-01-08

Officers (2 active · 1 resigned)

HODGES, Peter→
director · ~62y · appointed 2007-01-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
JEFFRIES, Sandra Lynn→
director · ~60y · appointed 2007-01-10
View their other companies + combined net worth →
Active
APL ACCOUNTANTS LLP→
corporate-secretary · appointed 2007-01-10 · resigned 2018-05-14
Resigned

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Recent filings (59 total)

accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2026-06-27
notification-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC01
2026-05-12
cessation-of-a-person-with-significant-control
persons-with-significant-control · PSC07
2026-05-12
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2026-01-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2025-06-29
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2025-01-08
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2024-06-12
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2024-03-05
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2024-01-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2023-06-26
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2023-01-09
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2022-06-26
change-registered-office-address-company-with-date-old-address-new-address
address · AD01
2022-04-09
confirmation-statement-with-no-updates
confirmation-statement · CS01
2022-01-13
accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-08-30