What a buyer sees
THAMES VALLEY CONSTRUCTION TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED
Other specialised construction activities n.e.c. · Marlow · 02633135
6staff · FY2024
35years trading
—oldest owner on file
£53kcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
10.2× spread£11k£115k
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: 3 figures against 113 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff6
20216 → 62024
Cash at bank£53k
2021£46k → £53k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£14,600£57,538£486,310
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
1236117
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
72065
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
618143
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 5
- 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 £11k and £115k. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- The newest accounts on file are 25 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.
- Headcount fell from 7 to 6A 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
- 35 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
- 65since 2002
- 72since 2016
- 60since 2019
- 60since 2022
- since 2022
- 37since 2024
- 81since 2024
- 56since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-31 | not filed | 6 | £53k |
| 2023-07-31 | not filed | 7 | £28k |
| 2022-07-31 | not filed | 6 | £66k |
| 2021-07-31 | not filed | 6 | £46k |