The Firmwatch take
A. Bruce Limited is a 99-year-old finance and insurance, active on the Companies House register. The latest filed accounts (year to 31 October 2024) show GBP 2k in net assets, with 2 cautionary signals worth monitoring. No insolvency or strike-off filings appear in our public Companies House and Gazette data.
Refreshed 24 May 2026
Incorporated
16 October 1926
99 years on the register
Sector
Other financial service activities n.e.c.
SIC 64999
Size
Not classified
Net assets
£2k
Above sector median
Cash at bank
Not disclosed
Not required for this filing type
Latest filing
None yet
Analytics
Risk, value and sector comparison
Insolvency risk
38/100
watch risk
Estimated public-data value
£1,500 - £2,700
medium confidence - net asset range
Sector comparison
Sector: Finance and Insurance
Sample: 38,253 companies
Negative net assets: 13.6%
- Net assets vs sector median
- £500
- Working capital vs sector median
- -£9,262
- Sector median current ratio
- 1.45
Thin net asset buffer
The company reports a small visible net asset position.
Negative working capital
Short-term liabilities are higher than short-term assets in the public balance sheet.
Risk and value are estimates from public accounts only. They are not a credit score, valuation opinion or insolvency prediction guarantee. See methodology.
Balance sheet
Full extracted balance sheet
Above sector median · Sector medians shown for 38,253 filers in this sector (2024).
Cash at bank
Bank balances disclosed in the public accounts.
Not disclosed
Current assets
Assets expected to turn into cash within one year.
Not disclosed
Current liabilities
Amounts due within one year (short-term creditors).
£714
Working capital
Current assets minus current liabilities.
-£714
Median £9k
Fixed assets
Long-term tangible and intangible assets.
Not disclosed
Total assets less current liabilities
Fixed assets plus working capital.
-£714
Net assets
What's left after liabilities are deducted from assets.
£2,000
Median £2k
Equity (capital & reserves)
Shareholder funds.
£2,000
Figures extracted from the company's public XBRL/iXBRL filing. Fields shown as Not disclosed are not legally required for this filing type and are absent from the source document — they are not necessarily zero.
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