C.D.S. COMPUTER DESIGN SYSTEMS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-18 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-04
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£3M
+80.7% vs 2024
Net assets
£1M
-5.7% vs 2024
Employees
81
+12.5% vs 2024
Profit before tax
-£44K
-484% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-31
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £5,450,056 | £6,288,113 | |
| Operating profit | -£68,740 | -£122,150 | |
| Profit before tax | £11,462 | -£44,014 | |
| Net profit | £3,919 | -£37,618 | |
| Cash | £1,502,214 | £2,713,916 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £1,543,501 | £1,447,275 | |
| Net assets | £1,452,329 | £1,369,211 | |
| Equity | £1,452,329 | £1,369,211 | |
| Average employees | 72 | 81 | |
| Wages | £3,749,231 | £4,370,231 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-31 | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -1.3% | -1.9% | |
| Net margin | 0.1% | -0.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | -4.5% | -8.4% | |
| Current ratio | 1.32x | 1.25x | |
| Interest cover | -9.72x | -292.22x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. In coming to their conclusion the Directors consider the Company's current significant cash position which has been maintained over recent years and since the year end date to be indicative of the limited exposure of the business to potential liquidity problems. The Directors have prepared profit and cash flow forecasts for the coming period and have run downside scenarios to identify any potential liquidity issues during the forecast period. These scenarios show in all cases the Company has sufficient cash to meet its liabilities as they fall due for a period of at least 12 months from the date of sign off of these financial statements and therefore the Company continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.”
Significant events
- “There have been no significant events affecting the Company since the year end.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BENT, Rachel Helen | Director | 2020-02-05 | Mar 1978 | British |
| BISHOP, Jonathan Harry | Director | 2020-07-15 | Jan 1984 | British |
| HOWES, Garreth James | Director | 2025-02-18 | Apr 1988 | British |
| LEA, Graeme | Director | 2013-06-27 | Jul 1975 | British |
| LEA, William | Director | — | Feb 1948 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCABE, John Edward | Secretary | — | 2017-06-30 |
| BOWRAN, Robert Bernard | Director | — | 2005-03-24 |
| DORR, Ciaran | Director | 2016-01-11 | 2021-07-23 |
| HEARD, Kenneth John | Director | — | 1994-03-27 |
| MCCABE, John Edward | Director | — | 2017-06-30 |
| WADE, Michael David | Director | 2019-08-21 | 2021-12-21 |
| WILLIS, Paul Nicholas | Director | — | 2015-03-31 |
| WILSON THEAKER, Graham | Director | 2015-04-13 | 2020-03-31 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr William Lea | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Mr Robert Bernard Bowran | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
| Paul Nicholas Willis | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 151 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-09-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-03-03 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2025-02-18 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-12-20 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2024-09-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-12-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2023-09-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-01-03 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2022-09-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-03-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-12-22 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-12-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2021-10-20 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2021-10-20 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2021-10-20 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2021-08-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-04-14 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2021-04-14 | PSC04 | persons-with-significant-control | Change to a person with significant control |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-31 vs 2024-03-31
-
Turnover
+15.4%
£5,450,056 £6,288,113
-
Cash
+80.7%
£1,502,214 £2,713,916
-
Net assets
-5.7%
£1,452,329 £1,369,211
-
Employees
+12.5%
72 81
-
Operating profit
-77.7%
-£68,740 -£122,150
-
Profit before tax
-484%
£11,462 -£44,014
-
Wages
+16.6%
£3,749,231 £4,370,231
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers