The Accounts · corrections
Corrections, right of reply and removal
Everything on The Accounts — company pages, reports, private equity and register pages, the daily brief by email and on the web, and our social media posts — is drawn from public filings, mostly at Companies House. Figures are extracted from filed accounts, partly by automated means, and we still make mistakes. This page explains how to tell us, what we do about it, and lists the corrections we have made.
How to reach us
- Report an error or ask for a right of reply: use the “Report an error” link on the page concerned, or email [email protected]. Tell us the page or post, what is wrong, and where the correct information is (for example, the filing).
- Personal data: if you are named on the site and want to object to how we use your personal data, email [email protected]. Our privacy policy (section 4) explains how we handle objections.
What we do
- We read every message. We aim to acknowledge it within five working days and to tell you what we are doing about it. Requests that need us to go back to the filings can take longer.
- Figures. If a number we published disagrees with the underlying filing, we correct it and, where the error was material, add a dated note to the item and to the log below.
- Wording. If a statement or characterisation can't be supported by the public record, we rewrite it to the facts or remove it, and, where the change is material, log it below.
- Right of reply. If you are a named company or person and want your response noted, we will consider publishing it alongside the item or in the log.
- Removal. We remove content, in full where needed, when it is inaccurate and can't be corrected, when we can't support it, or when an objection under data protection law is upheld. While we look into a credible complaint we may take the item down. Once we have confirmed something is wrong, we correct or remove it as quickly as we reasonably can. Correcting or removing an item does not mean we accept that it was unlawful.
- Email and social media. Where a social media post needs to come down, we delete it from the accounts we control; we can't remove copies others have made. A sent email can't be recalled, so where the error is material we send a correction to the same list instead.
- The official register. Correcting or removing our copy does not change the Companies House register. Errors in a filing itself are corrected through Companies House, usually by the company.
The log
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Between 7 June and 27 October 2026, 42 “Filing of note” items described a company whose accounts were prepared on a break-up (non-going-concern) basis as “being wound up”. A break-up basis is an accounting basis chosen by the directors; it is not an insolvency status. Companies House shows 39 of the companies named as active and not in liquidation or any other insolvency process.
We have reworded every affected item to describe the accounting basis only, and added a dated note to each of the 39 items. This is the same error we corrected for Holbud Limited on 30 October; the template that produced it was removed on that date, and this entry covers the earlier items it had already generated.
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The brief said Holbud Limited is “being wound up”. That was wrong. Holbud Limited is an active company and is not in liquidation or any other insolvency process. Its accounts for the year to October 2025 were prepared on a break-up (non-going-concern) basis after it ceased trading in July 2025.
The emailed edition also said “the board managed to extract a £43.5m dividend on the way down”. We withdraw that remark. The accounts record a £43.5m dividend paid in the year and net assets of £82.1m at the year end; we did not intend to suggest, and have no basis to suggest, any impropriety by Holbud Limited or its directors.
The web post has been corrected and a correction was emailed to subscribers. We apologise to Holbud Limited and its directors.