What a buyer sees
NEWBATTLE ABBEY COLLEGE
Technical and vocational secondary education · Midlothian · SC262968
47staff · FY2021
22years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.4Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£2.1Mfor the year to 2021
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£45,177in the middle half
£16,452£43,410£101,129
Debtor daysdays6below almost all
1138114
Creditor daysdays13
81980
Stock daysdays1below almost all
419161
Each spread is companies in the same trade and size that did publish a turnover. Creditor days are shown but not marked: neither end of that one is plainly good.
What a buyer would ask 3
- The newest accounts on file are 61 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- A director resigned in the past yearA buyer will ask why, and will hear the answer from somewhere. Better from you.
- No website on file against the companyThe first thing anyone does with a company number is look for the business behind it. Finding nothing is its own answer.
What a buyer would like 3
- 22 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 6 against 38 for the middle of 36 comparable companies.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 19 for the middle of 82 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2004
- 49since 2019
- 58since 2020
- 65since 2021
- 60since 2021
- 46since 2023
- 59since 2023
- 70since 2024
- 56since 2024
- 40since 2024
- 49since 2024
- 55since 2024
- 64since 2024
- 33since 2025
- 63since 2026
- 43since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-31 | £2.1M | 47 | £1.4M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£850k£1.9M
The turnover range is fitted on UK companies that did file one. The multiple is a published sector average from Dutch mid-market deals, not from your own numbers and not from your own market. Treat this as the opening bracket of a conversation, not a valuation.