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What a buyer sees

SYMPOSIUM COFFEE HOUSE LTD.

Unlicensed restaurants and cafes · Peterhead · SC350673

56staff · FY2022
18years trading
50oldest owner on file
£89kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

8.2× spread
£396k
£3.2M

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: 3 figures against 36 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff56
202110 → 562022
Cash at bank£89k
2021£77k → £89k2022

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£23,595£51,751£80,396
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
71347
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
142550
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
4737

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

  • 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 £396k and £3.2M. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • The newest accounts on file are 45 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.
  • 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

  • Headcount grew from 10 to 56Growth a buyer can verify without asking you for anything.

What the register says

Owners

  • 50since 2016

Directors

  • 50since 2008
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2022-11-30not filed56£89k
2021-11-30not filed10£77k

Prepared by Qapital from public records, against 105,750 companies that did publish a turnover. No figure here was supplied by the company and none of it is advice. What it is missing is everything that actually sets a price: profitability, contracts, customer concentration, and whoever would run it next.

Close the gap

The range above exists because your turnover is not on public record. Tell us what it actually is and we will place you exactly against your trade, and send it back.

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