What a buyer sees
DIGITAL OUTSOURCE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Information technology consultancy activities · London · 05657580
15staff · FY2023
21years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.3Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£2.3Mfor 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
Staff15
202245 → 152023
Cash at bank£1.3M
2022£2.0M → £1.3M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£155,487in the middle half
£53,053£167,216£800,168
Debtor daysdays111above almost all
1947104
Creditor daysdays4
112791
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 5
- 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.
- One director on the registerA buyer's first question about a company run by one person is what happens to it if that person stops. It is usually the first thing priced.
- Headcount fell from 45 to 15A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 111 against 47 for the middle of 89 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- 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
- 21 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
- 53since 2024
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £2.3M | 15 | £1.3M |
| 2022-12-31 | £6.0M | 45 | £2.0M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
1–3× sales£2.3M£7.0M
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.