What a buyer sees
CARRON MANUFACTURING SERVICES LIMITED
Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures · Falkirk · SC522416
12staff · FY2023
11years trading
—oldest owner on file
£47kcash at bank
Nobody can see what you turn over
8.1× spread£787k£6.4M
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: 2 figures against 139 companies in the same trade. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.
What your filings show moving
Staff12
20218 → 122023
Cash at bank£47k
2021£530k → £47k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employeenot on your filings
£73,648£159,502£337,000
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
246199
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
174478
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
52893
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
- 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 £787k and £6.4M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
- 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 16 to 12A 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 0
Nothing stands out yet from the filings alone.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 45since 2015
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | not filed | 12 | £47k |
| 2022-12-31 | £2.3M | 16 | £216k |
| 2021-12-31 | £1.2M | 8 | £530k |