{"name":"PAPERCHASE ACCOUNTANCY LIMITED","company_number":"02373033","status":"Active","type":"Private Limited Company","incorporated":"1989-04-17","dissolved":null,"registered_office":"The Courtyard, 14a Sydenham Road, Croydon, England, CR0 2EE","postcode":"CR0 2EE","sic_codes":[{"code":69202,"description":"Bookkeeping activities"}],"principal_activity":null,"previous_names":[],"warnings":[],"accounts":{"category":"Small","year_end":"31 March","last_made_up_to":"2025-03-31","next_due":"2026-12-31"},"employees":{"count":35,"accounts_date":"2025-03-31"},"financials":[{"financial_date":"2025-03-31","net_assets":3829842,"cash":731508,"average_employees":35},{"financial_date":"2024-03-31","net_assets":3490153,"cash":516293,"average_employees":49},{"financial_date":"2023-03-31","net_assets":3231935,"cash":1521172},{"financial_date":"2022-03-31","net_assets":2361824,"cash":2842569},{"financial_date":"2021-03-31","net_assets":1601233,"cash":2583332}],"officers":{"current":4,"resigned":9,"complete":true,"note":"Names and details of individual officers are on the People page (subscriber-only on this site) and free at Companies House."},"charges":{"total":3,"outstanding":2},"gazette_notices":[],"insolvency_outcome":null,"ai_summary":"Paperchase Accountancy Limited is a debt-free, 36-year-old hospitality specialist with a genuine vertical moat, £3.83m of net assets compounding at roughly 24% annually, and a proven ability to grow equity on a shrinking headcount. However, its strategic position is deteriorating at the edges: cash is 74% below its FY2022 peak, 86% of its debtor book sits with group undertakings, and client account balances have nearly halved — signalling softening client activity. The company has the financial capacity to reinvent itself as an advisory-led, data-monetising hospitality finance platform, but it must address intra-group liquidity concentration and core-activity commoditisation before the window closes.","website":"https://www.paperchase.ac/","links":{"page":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/paperchase-accountancy","people":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/paperchase-accountancy/people","filing_history":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/paperchase-accountancy/filing-history","companies_house":"https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02373033","financials":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/paperchase-accountancy/financial","control":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/paperchase-accountancy/control","charges":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/paperchase-accountancy/charges","ai_analysis":"https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/company/paperchase-accountancy/analysis"},"source":"CompaniesInTheUK, from Companies House, The Gazette and other public registers (see /support/about). Cite as: CompaniesInTheUK, https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/ltd/paperchase-accountancy"}