However, when you are also able to find and build a list of unique prospects and have a direct link to Companies House documents, all risk and credit reports on UK and Irish businesses and their directors, you will realise that this is the only tool you will ever need.  ‘Investigate’ provides:- 

• Over 70 search fields covering company fundamentals, risk and financial data.
• The ability to build multiple lists on any Industry in the UK.
• Identify sales prospects which are low risk, identify distressed business that require recovery and restructuring or identify new suppliers so that you can tender your services.
• Simple to use system which can be customised so that you can store list criteria as a ‘favourite’ to repeat the list on a monthly, quarterly basis with one click.
• The ability to download all reports into Excel for easy manipulation.
• Links to all Company House reports and ICC credit and risk reports
• All companies can also be linked to the Tracker Monitoring Service to maintain your watch upon their development.
• Company House document packages for AML and KYC are also available as part of this package.

Case Study 

Tim is a business development professional in an accountancy firm who specialises in looking for businesses which require his services of debt collection, restructuring and recovery. Right now Tim uses several tools to help him identify distressed businesses.  However, he then needs to obtain financial and statutory documentation from Companies house and visit a credit reference bureau to view a business report. These procedures are both time-consuming, costly and frustrating, as the original searching tool is often out-of-date and businesses have gone beyond a point where his services can be used. 

Using ‘Investigate’, Tim has a ‘one stop shop’ of information. A tool which he can rely upon to identify businesses of a medium-to-high risk score, a negative net worth and several recent CCJ’s lodged against them.  He is able to determine their turnover and industry type which fits his company’s profile. Once a list of businesses have been identified, Tim can then obtain the latest set of accounts, mortgage data, shareholder data, annual return and a risk report which details their CCJ and adverse history. Tim now has a complete tool which saves time, money and increases productivity which, in turn, increases his firm’s ability to attract new business before his rivals. 

A decision is only as good as the quality of the information it is based upon.

Increase your productivity, reduce your workload and save on costs by using a solution that offers all the information required to identify, analyse and then continuing assess businesses within the UK and Ireland. 

ICC is offering a free trial period subscription to this service, used and endorsed by many Top Ten Accountancy, Legal & Banking firms.   The trial is being extended to allow you to trial our other reports and monitoring services.  

Email showard@icc.co.uk for your no obligation, free trial access or for more information.”

About ICC

ICC’s leading integrated technology provides intelligent analysis of data, allowing our clients to set foundations for efficiency. Our Credit & Risk services help to mitigate credit and supplier risk by minimising exposure and maximising opportunities; our Business Information delivers critical and timely data and documents to enable investment, acquisition and compliance based processes to run efficiently, empowering fast business decisions; and our Marketing Services provide intelligent insight into client’s data allowing for an enriched dataset that not only uncovers pockets of prospects, but also increases sales revenue through tailored data strategies.For more information, please visit www.icc.co.uk

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