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What a buyer sees

DAVID BECKMAN & CO LIMITED

Accounting and auditing activities · Ashtead · 04744238

9staff · FY2024
23years trading
—oldest owner on file
£396kcash at bank

Nobody can see what you turn over

8.2× spread
£100k
£823k

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 91 companies in the same trade and size. An opening offer is built on the bottom of it.

What your filings show moving

Staff9
202111 → 92024
Cash at bank£396k
2021£302k → £396k2024

How you sit in your trade

slowest tenth typical fastest tenth you
Sales per employeenot on your filings
£12,680£34,567£93,229
Debtor daysdaysnot on your filings
2368283
Creditor daysdaysnot on your filings
946256
Stock daysdaysnot on your filings
632182

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

  • 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 £100k and £823k. An opening offer is built on the low end of whatever they guess.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 23 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

  • 68since 2003
  • 35since 2024
Accounts on public record
Year toTurnoverStaffCash
2024-03-31not filed9£396k
2023-03-31not filed9£378k
2022-03-31not filed9£339k
2021-03-31not filed11£302k

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.

Goes to one inbox. No list, no sequence, and we will not pass it on. We buy companies as well as advise on them, so if yours is one we would be interested in, we will tell you that before anything else happens.