What a buyer sees
GARETH HOSKINS ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Architectural activities · Glasgow · SC254352
34staff · FY2023
23years trading
—oldest owner on file
£11kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£2.4Mfor 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
Staff34
202147 → 342023
Cash at bank£11k
2021£235k → £11k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£71,379in the middle half
£28,817£88,377£179,691
Debtor daysdays93in the top quarter
1462119
Creditor daysdays49
81773
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
734122
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
- The newest accounts on file are 35 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 46 to 34A 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 93 against 62 for the middle of 95 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
- 23 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
- 50since 2008
- 57since 2008
- 52since 2018
- 51since 2018
- 44since 2018
- 52since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-30 | £2.4M | 34 | £11k |
| 2022-09-30 | £2.6M | 46 | £35k |
| 2021-09-30 | £2.0M | 47 | £235k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.6–1.5× sales£1.5M£3.6M
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.