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Deciphering Financial Statement Fields + Searching over them
Deciphering Financial Statement Fields + Searching over them

Outlining all financial criteria, the sections that they fall under, and how to search over them!

Updated over 8 months ago

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Introduction + How to search over Financial Statement Criteria

Financial Statements can be complicated to sift through, so we've compiled a guide outlining what each term means, and how you can search over them in Advanced Search.


To search over the following criteria, select 'add company criteria' and then go to the 'financials' section.
Open up Financial Statement, and beneath you'll find all of the criteria, grouped by what section of the filing they fall underneath.

Our financial statement criteria leaf in Advanced Search

It's important to know how to use these criteria to get what you need from your search - you can do so by editing the following parameters, since every white box in Advanced Search is clickable:

  • Absolute value OR change in

    • Are you looking for companies with at least £1 million in turnover (Absolute value), or those that have seen their turnover increase by 20% since last year? (change in)

  • at least OR at most OR between OR exactly

    • A great way to broaden or refine a search to change the number of results!

  • exclude OR include where not disclosed

    • Are you looking to get rid of all companies too small to file a particular metric, or just exclude those that have filed, outside of your specified range?

🌟Top Tip!🌟
Type 'm' or 'k' when typing a value to specify millions or thousands, and save you counting out the zeroes!


Glossary

  • Date of accounts - the date the accounts were filed.

  • Number of Employees - the number of employees that the company has filed with companies house.

  • Profit & Loss

    • Turnover - the amount of money taken by a business in a particular period.
      (A company does not need to file turnover unless it is £10.2M or above, but it may choose to even if it's below this threshold!)

    • Operating Profit - A profit from business operations before the deduction of interest and taxes.

    • EBITDA - Earnings before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and Amortisation. A measure of profitability.
      Depreciation is the loss in value of an asset over time, whereas amortisation is a method used to decrease the cost of the asset over time.

    • Pretax profit - The measure of a company’s profits before tax.

    • Profit after Tax - The earnings of a business after the income taxes are deducted.

    • Non-audit fees - The remuneration to auditors that is not directly for the auditing of a company’s accounts

  • Balance Sheet

    • Intangible Assets - an identifiable non-monetary asset without physical substance e.g. patents, copyright, franchises, trademarks etc.

    • Total Fixed Assets - assets reported before deductions e.g. machinery, supplies, buildings and vehicles.

    • Trade Debtors - invoices owed to you by customers.

    • Cash - the amount of money held by a company in physical form, as well as other currencies, cheques and current accounts.

    • Total Assets - the total cost of any items of value owned by a person or entity.

    • Trade Creditors - a supplier who has sent your business goods, or supplied it with services, who haven’t yet paid.

    • Working Capital - the money available to meet your current, short-term obligations.

    • Total Liabilities - the combined debts and obligations that an individual or company owes to outside parties.

    • Net Assets - the value of a company’s assets minus its liabilities.

  • Capital Reserve

    • P&L Account Reserve - a reserve that contains the balance of retained earnings to carry forward - fully distributable and shown as part of shareholders’ reserves on the balance sheet.

    • Net Worth - the value of the assets a person or corporation owns, minus the liabilities they own.

  • Cash Flow

    • Increase in Cash - the change in cash and cash equivalents compared to the previous year

  • Miscellaneous

    • Direct Exports from the Country of Incorporation - The amount a company is exporting from the company in which it is incorporated.

    • R&D Expenditure - all expenditures for R&D that are performed within a statistical unit or sector of the economy in the EU member states.

    • Auditors - which firm does the auditing for this company —> This criteria requires you to type in the name of the exact company e.g. Deloitte.

  • Latest credit rating - the latest evaluation of the credit risk of a prospective debtor, predicting their ability to pay back the debt.

  • Latest credit limit - the maximum amount of money in total you can borrow at any one time.

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