What a buyer sees
CLAVERING & ARKESDEN PRESCHOOL
Pre-primary education · Saffron Walden · 06946102
7staff · FY2024
17years trading
32oldest owner on file
£68kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£101kfor 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
Staff7
20228 → 72024
Cash at bank£68k
2022£67k → £68k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£14,443in the middle half
£9,071£18,089£49,474
Debtor daysdays5below almost all
936137
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
71551
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
423188
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 24 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 8 to 7A 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
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 5 against 36 for the middle of 341 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
- 32since 2024
Directors
- 55since 2017
- 40since 2020
- since 2023
- 32since 2024
- 39since 2025
- since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-31 | £101k | 7 | £68k |
| 2023-08-31 | £124k | 8 | £71k |
| 2022-08-31 | £103k | 8 | £67k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£40k£90k
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.