What a buyer sees
UNIVERSITY CENTRE WEST ANGLIA
Other education n.e.c. · Essex · 06252886
17staff · FY2024
19years trading
—oldest owner on file
£105kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£1.2Mfor the year to 2024
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
Staff17
202219 → 172024
Cash at bank£105k
2022£46k → £105k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£71,377in the middle half
£9,186£51,936£164,653
Debtor daysdays2below almost all
1233108
Creditor daysdays0
81528
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
419161
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 3
- 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.
- Headcount fell from 21 to 17A 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
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 2 against 33 for the middle of 38 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 63since 2007
- 54since 2017
- 52since 2020
- 57since 2022
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-31 | £1.2M | 17 | £105k |
| 2023-07-31 | £1.6M | 21 | £146k |
| 2022-07-31 | £2.2M | 19 | £46k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£490k£1.1M
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.