DICKERMAN OVERSEAS CONTRACTING COMPANY LIMITED

1. DICKERMAN OVERSEAS CONTRACTING COMPANY LIMITED 1993-04-14 → present
2. DICKERMAN OVERSEAS CONTRACTING LIMITED 1993-02-12 → 1993-04-14
3. MERCHON LIMITED 1992-09-30 → 1993-02-12

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

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Abridged

Yes — abridged accounts (limited disclosure)

Auditor

Saffery LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. DICKERMAN OVERSEAS CONTRACTING COMPANY LIMITED · parent
   1. Si-Jet Limited 100% · UK · Dormant
   2. ADV Communications Limited 100% · UK · Dormant
   3. Dickerman Overseas Malta Limited 100% · Malta · Dormant
   4. Dickerman Overseas (Ghana) Limited 100% · Ghana · Dormant
   5. Dickerman Overseas Equatorial Guinea SARL 65% · Equatorial Guinea · Dormant

Significant events

• “The company is defending a legal claim against it. The Directors have assessed the likelihood of success and considered the potential economic outflow. They have concluded that a transfer of economic benefit is possible but cannot accurately measure the outflow at this stage. In the event of success, the potential outflow is not expected to be material to the financial statements.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

5

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -43.7%

  £12,246,842 → £6,889,529

• Cash

  -4.3%

  £5,308,826 → £5,081,314

• Net assets

  -4.4%

  £7,281,893 → £6,963,043

• Employees

  -7.4%

  27 → 25

• Operating profit

  -157.2%

  £930,881 → -£532,900

• Profit before tax

  -137%

  £1,125,224 → -£416,772

• Wages

  -43.5%

  £2,171,330 → £1,226,832

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers