What is a balance sheet?
A balance sheet is a key financial statement that provides a snapshot of a company’s financial position at a specific point in time. An alternative name for it is a ‘statement of financial position’. In…
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What is a non-executive director?
In recent years the number and importance of non-executive directors (or ‘NEDs’) in UK companies has grown significantly. While the focus for discussion of non-executive directors is often on listed companies, their value…
What investors should check for in a company’s articles of association
There can be many good reasons to invest in a company, but what safeguards will you have? Will others, perhaps with more shares or a different class of shares to you, have disproportionate levels of control or receive greater…
(A fourth) Inform Direct product update – May 2023
This is our fourth product release this month. It builds on the first release this month which allowed users to merge shareholders, officers and PSCs for companies limited by shares. We have now extended this to companies…
What is a corporate shareholder?
A corporate shareholder is a company, partnership, trust or business entity that owns shares in another company. It is perhaps easiest to remember by simply stating that a corporate shareholder is a non-human shareholder.…
(A third) Inform Direct product update – May 2023
We’ve had two updates this May already, and here is a third!…
2025 Review
of UK Company Formations
Read our comprehensive review of UK company formations in 2024, year-on-year growth rates and breakdown by county. This detailed insight is provided in the form of easy to understand infographics available for sharing through social media and on your own website
