What a buyer sees
FINEMAN ROSS LLP
London · OC303023
7staff · FY2024
24years trading
—oldest owner on file
£128kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£915kfor 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
Staff7
20228 → 72024
Cash at bank£128k
2022£253k → £128k2024
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£130,714in the middle half
£19,100£114,401£651,101
Debtor daysdays71in the top quarter
1245110
Creditor daysdays16
102888
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
738149
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 29 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 8 to 7A 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 71 against 45 for the middle of 24,350 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
- 24 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
- since 2018
- since 2018
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-31 | £915k | 7 | £128k |
| 2023-03-31 | not filed | 8 | £83k |
| 2022-03-31 | not filed | 8 | £253k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£370k£820k
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.