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What a buyer sees

BRITISH ACADEMY OF SONGWRITERS, COMPOSERS AND AUTHORS

Support activities to performing arts · Southwark · 03643088

25staff · FY2023
28years trading
—oldest owner on file
£600kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

10.8× spread
£384k
£4.1M

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 101 companies in the same sector and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff25
202135 → 252023
Cash at bank£600k
2021£160k → £600k2023

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£9,306£39,859£629,353
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
82187
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
92181
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
51386

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 4

  • 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 £384k and £4.1M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 33 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
  • Headcount fell from 33 to 25A 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

  • 28 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

  • 66since 2018
  • 49since 2020
  • 43since 2022
  • 41since 2022
  • 50since 2024
  • since 2024
  • 64since 2024
  • 24since 2024
  • 27since 2024
  • 61since 2024
  • 38since 2024
  • 48since 2024
  • 55since 2024
  • 47since 2025
  • 39since 2025
  • 40since 2026
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2023-12-31not filed25£600k
2022-12-31not filed33£344k
2021-12-31not filed35£160k

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

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