What a buyer sees
THE SIXTH FORM COLLEGES' ASSOCIATION LIMITED
Activities of professional membership organizations · London · 02736405
9staff · FY2024
34years trading
—oldest owner on file
£2.8Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.6Mfor 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
Staff9
202210 → 92024
Cash at bank£2.8M
2022£2.3M → £2.8M2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£173,822above almost all
£34,913£67,789£173,197
Debtor daysdays42in the middle half
1239120
Creditor daysdays10
81762
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
723203
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 25 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 2
- 34 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Sales per employee better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 173,822 against 67,789 for the middle of 42 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 70since 2013
- 59since 2016
- since 2019
- 61since 2021
- 54since 2022
- 60since 2022
- 55since 2022
- 59since 2022
- 54since 2022
- 63since 2022
- 67since 2022
- 56since 2023
- 47since 2024
- 69since 2025
- 56since 2025
- 59since 2025
- 55since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-31 | £1.6M | 9 | £2.8M |
| 2023-07-31 | £1.4M | 9 | £2.5M |
| 2022-07-31 | £1.3M | 10 | £2.3M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£630k£1.4M
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.