An Anatomy of Small Businesses in the UK: Figures and Forecasts to 2013

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An Anatomy of Small Businesses in the UK: Figures and Forecasts to 2013 provides a unique analysis of small enterprises and self-employed individuals in the country:
 
- it dissects these businesses into 105 separate trades and professions to provide a comprehensive understanding of their relative size, as measured by the number of small businesses and self-employed individuals within each segment;
 
- it divides them further by turnover band, to separate out micro-businesses (annual turnover up to £100,000), enterprises with an annual turnover between £100,000 and £1 million, and enterprises with an annual turnover of between £1 million and £5 million;
 
- it provides trends and forecasts from 2005 to 2013 to show which segments are growing and which are in decline, both during the recession and over the medium-term.

Finaccord has developed this report because small businesses and self-employed individuals form a large part of the UK economy, and are important clients for many types of organisation.

However, their needs for legal, financial, accounting, human resources, communications, IT and other services vary greatly, depending on their industry segment and on their size. In fact, in order to develop specialist services, companies need to know how large each industry segment is and how it divides by size. They also need to know which segments are growing, which are shrinking, and if these trends are cyclical or structural.

Moreover, existing data sources do not cover all segments, are hard to reconcile with each other, often under-estimate the actual number of enterprises and do not provide forecasts. In contrast, this report provides the first comprehensive ‘anatomy of small businesses’ in the UK, through the breadth of its scope, its use of a standardised methodology across 105 segments, and the trends over time that it provides.

For further information about this research, please access the table of contents and report prospectus by clicking on the links at the top of this page, or e-mail .