What a buyer sees
ACCORD:ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
Other engineering activities · Chobham · 05316149
6staff · FY2024
22years trading
—oldest owner on file
£50kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£384kfor 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
Staff6
20226 → 62024
Cash at bank£50k
2022£101k → £50k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£64,000in the middle half
£17,897£63,250£395,961
Debtor daysdays160above almost all
1161129
Creditor daysdays7
112568
Stock daysdays34in the middle half
63197
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.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 160 against 61 for the middle of 53 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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
- 22 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 47since 2012
- 49since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £384k | 6 | £50k |
| 2023-03-31 | not filed | 6 | £139k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 6 | £101k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.6–1.5× sales£230k£580k
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.