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I see Companies House are releasing the accounts for free in a daily download.

There are other websites that will release them in a more readable format but place restrictions or charge for them.

It is fiddly - but it's free.

http://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_accountsdata.html



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Perhaps a dumb question, but what are these, Peasie? I downloaded a zip file and its all gobbledygook?

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Have you unzipped it?

Open one of the html files in your browser and you'll have the accounts filed at Companies House for that Company.

Ok - there are about 10,000 of them - but if you know the registration number for a company you can search for the company that way. The number makes up part of the filename.

You could go to Duedil.com or Companycheck.co.uk for the same thing (in easier to read pdf format) but there are restrictions on the number of companies accounts you can download before you have to pay for them.

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Just to take my own thread off topic for a second or two - when I was downloading one of these files it was about 60MB. One of the larger ones I think because it was the first one of the month and probably had the ones left to the last minute. It took a matter of seconds to download to a computer not even connected by wires to the phoneline. It unzipped to a 500MB worth of files.

I thought back to my first computer which had a hard drive of 200MB. Didn't even have sound with it. Cost me a couple of thousand pound. I had a black/white inkjet printer with it that cost over £300.

How things have changed. I don't want people coming on and saying their first computer was a piece of wood with notches cut out of it and end up in a Monty Python sketch. Just how dramatically things have changed over that last 15 years.

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"I don't want people coming on and saying their first computer was a piece of wood with notches cut out of it"

I wouldn't do that! After all, it wouldn't be true...

...because I couldn't afford the ones with the notches cut out of them. Luxury.

But seriously: just fifteen years? Pfft!

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VinceH wrote:

"I don't want people coming on and saying their first computer was a piece of wood with notches cut out of it"

I wouldn't do that! After all, it wouldn't be true...

...because I couldn't afford the ones with the notches cut out of them. Luxury.

But seriously: just fifteen years? Pfft!


You're right - I just realised 1998 was when I went on the internet when it took four hours for each web page to load. I think it might have been 1995 when I got my first computer. Prior to that I had an Amstrad PCW10 and thought it was a computer because it had a monitor. 



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Amstrad PCW10, pftt... When I were a lad we just had a peice of wood with notches... Oh wait! lol




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Come to think of it - was it even a Monty Python sketch I'm thinking of?
Or was it just a couple of people from Monty Python on one of those charity shows?

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Do you mean the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, perchance?

 



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VinceH wrote:

Do you mean the Four Yorkshiremen sketch, perchance?

 


 That's the one - never saw this original before - just saw the "tribute" act.



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