What a buyer sees
CIRCLE SCOTLAND C.I.C.
Other business support service activities n.e.c. · Dundee · SC515218
6staff · FY2023
11years trading
—oldest owner on file
£30kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£452kfor 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
Staff6
202112 → 62023
Cash at bank£30k
2021£110k → £30k2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£75,317in the middle half
£15,472£84,100£1,221,366
Debtor daysdays49in the middle half
1352189
Creditor daysdays80
930126
Stock daysdays5below almost all
635238
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 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 12 to 6A 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
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 5 against 35 for the middle of 212 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 54since 2021
- since 2022
- 49since 2022
- 38since 2024
- 42since 2026
- 43since 2026
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £452k | 6 | £30k |
| 2021-12-31 | £411k | 12 | £110k |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£180k£410k
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.