UK company accounts for every student, £2,400 a year
Ten years and more of filed accounts for about 7 million UK companies, as clean tables your students can filter, compare and download for Excel, SPSS, R or Python. One campus licence, no seat limits, no student sign-up.
Accounting and finance
Year by year balance sheets, liquidity and gearing ratios for any UK company, with the original filing one click away. Ready for going concern and ratio analysis exercises.
Dissertations and business research
All companies in a SIC code, town or postcode area, size band and status, for the years you choose, in one CSV. Industry medians and peer groups for comparison.
Data science and AI
A large, documented panel of real company accounts with an API and an MCP server for AI assistants. Good material for teaching students to check AI answers against verified numbers.
What is in the data
| What | Coverage |
|---|---|
| Machine-readable (iXBRL) accounts | 36.9 million filings, about 7 million companies, periods from 2010, updated daily |
| Balance sheet lines | Net assets and employees in about 85% of recent filings, cash in about 41%; fixed and current assets, debtors, creditors within and after one year |
| Profit and loss lines | Where published: about 2% of filings have turnover and 4% profit after tax, mostly medium and large companies, because small companies may file a balance sheet only |
| Register | Name, status, SIC codes, post town and postcode, accounts type, incorporation date for about 5.6 million live companies |
| Industry benchmarks | Medians and quartiles for 102 industry groups (SIC sections and divisions) |
| Paper and scanned accounts | Extracted on request and checked by hand, up to 200 company-years a year included |
| Not included | Non-UK companies, ownership trees, credit scores, M&A, director networks |
Details: coverage and limitations. Source: Companies House, Open Government Licence v3.0.
The licence
£2,400 + VAT a year
- All students and staff, distance learners and visiting researchers, walk-in users in the library
- Access by campus IP ranges and EZproxy, no student accounts; SAML single sign-on on request
- Dataset exports up to 50,000 rows per query, CSV for Excel
- Full financial history and ratios for any company
- Teaching, dissertations, research and text and data mining permitted
- Monthly usage report for the library
- Two online practical sessions, librarian training and help moving one existing assignment
- Price fixed for two years for our first partner institutions; invoiced against a purchase order
For the library and procurement
- Free teaching kits with real datasets
- EZproxy and IP access setup
- Licence terms summary
- How a pilot works
- Privacy and security
- Accessibility statement
- Supplier information
Usage reports are institutional counts of searches, views and exports. They are not COUNTER-certified.
Tell us about your module
A pilot runs for 6 to 8 teaching weeks in one named module, free of charge, with success criteria agreed in advance. We reply within two working days.
Is this a replacement for FAME or Orbis?
Not for everything. We cover UK companies only, with no ownership trees, credit scores or M&A. For teaching balance sheet analysis, building SME datasets for dissertations and data science projects on a real company panel, it does the job for the whole university at a fraction of the cost.
Do students need to register?
No. Access works by your campus IP ranges and your EZproxy server, the same way most library databases work. Students simply open the site from campus or through the library link.
How complete is the profit and loss data?
Honestly: thin. Small and micro companies do not have to publish a profit and loss account, so turnover appears in about 2% of filings and profit after tax in about 4%, mostly medium and large companies. Balance sheet lines are widely available: net assets and employees in about 85% of filings.
Can a dissertation dataset be reproduced later?
Yes. Every dataset link can carry an as_of date, which rebuilds the data from filings published up to that day. Each row links to the original filing at Companies House.
What happens if we stop subscribing?
Datasets you downloaded stay with you. Live access stops at the end of the licence year.