Will UK companies exceed their £51 billion cash hoard?

UK companies have reported over £51 billion in cash and bank balances for the calendar year 2013, as at 30 September 2014. The main question is will this figure be exceeded when all the annual accounts relating to the 2014 calendar year are filed.

In general there’s an average 12-month time lag between a company’s financial year end and its accounts being filed at Companies House. As such, estimates of the full year figures for calendar year 2013 are provisional and will only be reliable after Q4 2014. Similarly, for calendar year 2014, reliable estimates can only be made after Q4 2015.

View the full story on our data visualization page – Accounts->Sep 2014 YTD

Quick facts – UK Companies financial metrics, calendar year 2014 YTD

  • £8.4 billion cash and bank balances as at 30-Sep-2014
  • £9.3 billion net current assets (cash, stock and debtors) as at 30-Sep-2014
  • £19.3 billion net assets or shareholder funds as at 30-Sep-2014

Quick facts – UK Companies financial metrics, calendar year 2013 FY

  • £51.2 billion cash and bank balances as at 31-Dec-2013
  • £82.0 billion net current assets (cash, stock and debtors) as at 31-Dec-2013
  • £212.4 billion net assets or shareholder funds as at 31-Dec-2013

Below are 4 key metrics selected from 620 account line descriptions that make up the full chart of accounts.
Further, the key performance indicators (KPI’s) compiled for these 4 metrics can be visualized by following this link.

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