What a buyer sees
AUTOSCAN (UK) LIMITED
Other business support service activities n.e.c. · Coventry · 06834446
84staff · FY2024
17years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.5Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£4.7Mfor the year to 2024
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
What your filings show moving
Staff84
2021132 → 842024
Cash at bank£1.5M
2021£3.8M → £1.5M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£55,887in the bottom quarter
£45,518£151,784£486,559
Debtor daysdays41in the middle half
1447102
Creditor daysdays17
92769
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
62889
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 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 101 to 84A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- 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 1
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 49since 2009
- 62since 2011
- 61since 2011
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £4.7M | 84 | £1.5M |
| 2023-03-31 | £7.1M | 101 | £506k |
| 2022-03-31 | £5.9M | 115 | £869k |
| 2021-03-31 | not filed | 132 | £3.8M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£1.9M£4.2M
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.