What a buyer sees
O'SULLIVAN CIVIL ENGINEERING LIMITED
Construction of other civil engineering projects n.e.c. · Croydon · 04101650
5staff · FY2025
26years trading
63oldest owner on file
£172kcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
7.4× spread£103k£762k
You file abbreviated accounts, as almost every company your size does, so the profit and loss account is not on public record. That band is what your balance sheet implies to anyone who looks: 4 figures against 71 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff5
20217 → 52025
Cash at bank£172k
2021£221k → £172k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£18,480£140,450£1,909,224
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
934138
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
832147
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
61569
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
- Your turnover is not on fileYou file abbreviated accounts, as most companies your size do, so a buyer cannot see what the business turns over and has to estimate it. Working only from what you filed, the range lands between £103k and £762k. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- Headcount fell from 8 to 5A 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 2
- 26 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- A board that has been together ten years or moreContinuity a buyer does not have to take on trust.
What the register says
Owners
- 63since 2016
Directors
- 63since 2000
- 54since 2012
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 2026-07-28 | not filed | 5 | £172k |
| 2023-11-30 | — | not filed | 8 | £166k |
| 2022-11-30 | — | not filed | 7 | £147k |
| 2021-11-30 | — | not filed | 7 | £221k |