Reports
Numbers you can check.
Each of these ships its dataset, states the formula behind every derived column, and shows the views that fall out of it. Nothing is a picture of a number — you can follow any figure back to the rows it came from. That traceability is the point, because it is the same promise a report going to your client has to make. These run on clean public data; the messy ones arrive as the product does.
- 01Bookkeeping
One customer at 27% is half your risk
Ten grocery market shares, and the concentration maths every board pack should run and almost none does. The largest player contributes 51% of the entire concentration score — because these measures square the leader.
- 02Bookkeeping
Two companies grew 4.2%. Only one of them sold more
Ten reported growth figures from six consumer companies, each split into price and volume. The headline number is the same and the businesses underneath are not — which is why a variance report that stops at the total tells you nothing.
- 03Bookkeeping
What reporting software actually costs per client
Fourteen published plans from three vendors, in three currencies. Databoat converted them and derived the cost per client — and the first client on a practice plan costs twelve times what the hundredth does.
- 04Bookkeeping
One retailer grew sales 18% and profit fell
Six published sets of results, same sector, same year. Databoat derived what each percentage point of sales growth was actually worth in profit — and the answer ranges from three times over to less than nothing.
- 05Bookkeeping
Five months of the year are below average, and April lies
Databoat read 416 months of unadjusted retail sales and derived a seasonal index. December runs 15% above an average month — but the more useful finding is that April has swung 21 points between years, which makes it the one month you cannot compare.
- 06Bookkeeping
Amazon is funded by $100bn it does not own
Databoat pulled five filed figures for ten retailers straight from SEC filings and derived the cash conversion cycle. Two of the ten are funded by their own suppliers and customers. One has $12.8bn of its own cash standing in a warehouse.
- 07Bookkeeping
What card processing actually costs on a small ticket
Eight published rate cards, four columns each. Databoat derived the effective rate at every ticket size and the ordering flips completely — the cheapest processor at $5 is not the cheapest at $500.
- 08Bookkeeping
Filing late costs nothing most days, then £4,500 on one of them
Companies House penalties are banded, not accrued. Derive the cost of a single day and it is £0 on almost every day of the year — except three, where crossing a boundary costs up to 219 times the average day.
- 09General interest
The fastest animal alive travels less than one kilometre an hour
Rank animals by speed and a falcon wins. Divide by body length and the table turns upside down: a 0.7mm mite covers 321 of its own bodies every second, and a greyhound out-runs a cheetah.
- 10General interest
The cheapest rocket on the market is the most expensive way to reach orbit
Electron costs $7.5m a launch — a tenth of a Falcon 9. Divide by what each actually lifts and the ranking inverts completely: Electron is the dearest per kilogram of any vehicle flying, and the Space Shuttle beats it.
- 11General interest
Ten years into a 25-year mortgage you have repaid a quarter of it
A £250,000 loan at 5% costs £1,461 a month. After a decade of paying that, £184,811 is still owed. Amortisation front-loads interest, and above 6.5% you repay the price of the house a second time.
- 12General interest
China finished second in Paris and last per head of population
The Paris 2024 medal table ranks by total. Divide by population and it inverts almost perfectly — China drops from second to sixteenth of sixteen, and Grenada wins by a factor of 269.
- 13Bookkeeping
The employer on-cost is not a flat percentage — it peaks at £50,270
Employer NI and pension are usually quoted as a rough 15% on top of salary. Derive it properly across ten salary bands and the curve is a hump: it climbs to 16.13% and then falls, because pension stops but NI does not.
- 14Bookkeeping
Every UK region is growing its business count — some barely
ONS publishes a birth rate and a death rate for all twelve UK regions. Subtract one from the other and the spread is eight-fold: London adds businesses eight times faster than the East Midlands.