What a buyer sees
ABACUS EMPLOYMENT SERVICES LIMITED
Temporary employment agency activities · Basingstoke · 02638307
612staff · FY2023
35years trading
—oldest owner on file
£28kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£14Mfor the year to 2023
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
Staff612
2021702 → 6122023
Cash at bank£28k
2021£509k → £28k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£22,500in the bottom quarter
£19,631£29,068£107,893
Debtor daysdays44in the middle half
245372
Creditor daysdays0
81745
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
4933
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 35 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
- 35 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
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- since 2000
- 59since 2000
- 57since 2009
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £14M | 612 | £28k |
| 2022-09-30 | £13M | 633 | £96k |
| 2021-09-30 | £14M | 702 | £509k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.15–0.3× sales£2.1M£4.1M
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.