What a buyer sees
COMMONSIDE MANAGEMENT SERVICES LIMITED
Information technology consultancy activities · Bexhill · 02120059
8staff · FY2024
39years trading
77oldest owner on file
—cash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£103kfor 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
Staff8
20225 → 82024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£12,813below almost all
£16,020£66,933£368,098
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1143169
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
830151
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
732658
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.
- Everyone on the board is over 60There is no one on the register a buyer can see taking the business on. That is a discount if it stays that way and a negotiating point if it changes.
- 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
- 39 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Headcount grew from 5 to 8Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.
What the register says
Owners
- 77since 2016
Directors
- 77
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £103k | 8 | — |
| 2023-03-31 | not filed | 5 | — |
| 2022-03-31 | £124k | 5 | — |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
1–3× sales£100k£310k
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.