What a buyer sees
COMMERCE DECISIONS LIMITED
Information technology consultancy activities · Chippenham · 04157081
118staff · FY2023
25years trading
—oldest owner on file
£2.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£17Mfor 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
Staff118
202152 → 1182023
Cash at bank£2.3M
2021£3.1M → £2.3M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£141,304in the middle half
£88,538£165,753£383,345
Debtor daysdays28in the bottom quarter
2662100
Creditor daysdays2
82457
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
723198
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 2
- The newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- 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
- 25 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 28 against 62 for the middle of 87 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 57since 2020
- since 2021
- 56since 2023
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £17M | 118 | £2.3M |
| 2022-12-31 | £13M | 125 | £2.6M |
| 2022-03-31 | £7.7M | 64 | £962k |
| 2021-03-31 | £7.0M | 52 | £3.1M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
1–3× sales£17M£50M
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.