ACORN ACCOUNTING SERVICES LIMITED
Company number 05808031 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Acorn Accounting Services Limited operates as a micro-practice sole practitioner firm in the highly fragmented UK accounting services sector, serving what appears to be a local rural client base from Chard, Somerset. While the business demonstrates encouraging top-line asset growth and has recovered from a technically insolvent position in 2018, its near-zero equity base (£795 on £41,825 assets) places it well below typical industry capitalisation benchmarks and leaves it financially fragile. The practice's competitive position relies almost entirely on proprietor Robert Davison's personal relationships, with limited evidence of investment in the technology and scale needed to adapt to the sector's accelerating digital transformation—particularly Making Tax Digital compliance requirements that will reshape the sole practitioner market from 2026 onwards.
Shareholders' funds
£795
Balance sheet as at 2025-05-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2006-05-05
- Employees
- 1 (2025 accounts · was 0 in 2024)
- Registered office
- 7 Hillside, Chard, Somerset, England, TA20 1JF
- Postcode
- TA20 1JF
- Capital
- 4 GBP
- Accounts category
- Micro
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-05-31
- Next due by
- 2027-02-28
- Financial year end
- 31 May
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-02-02
- Next due by
- 2027-02-16
Nature of business (SIC)
- 69201 Accounting and auditing activities
Officers 2 current · 1 resigned
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZB138671 (Tier 1), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| DITTON HOUSE 59 FLEECE ROAD, LONG DITTON, SURBITON, UNITED KINGDOM, KT6 5JR | 2020-05-06 |
| PALACE GATE HOUSE, 3 PALACE GATE, HAMPTON COURT, SURREY, KT8 9BN | 2011-10-26 |
| 25 THE GLADE, STAINES, MIDDLESEX, TW18 1ER | 2007-03-22 |
Among its peers
Among the oldest 25%
of 177 similar companies in TA, trading since 2006
Competitors Taunton
This company ranks 114 among accounting and auditing activities in Taunton.
The class of 2006
44%
of the 1,686 companies in this sector incorporated in 2006 are still active today; 54% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.