Getting your numbers ready
Nobody can price your business until your numbers survive a stranger.
Stage one
What the report changes
- Your figures checked against each other, so you know they agree before a buyer looks
- The bridge from the profit in your accounts to the profit a buyer will use
- The add-backs a buyer is likely to reject, and why
- The documents a buyer will ask for that you don’t have yet
- A 90-day plan: what to fix, in the order worth fixing it
- A re-run within six months, included, once you’ve made the changes
What your report tells you first
Quellbrook Haulage Ltd · Fictional business — sample report
The headline
£250,000of your FY25 profit a buyer is likely to question
With one-off and personal costs added back, you put your profit at £700,000. From the documents you have today, a buyer is likely to accept £450,000. This report shows you how to close that gap.
£495 (no VAT)
Exit Readiness Report
A one-off payment, with a re-run included within 6 months once you’ve made the changes.
Free. See how much of your profit a buyer is likely to question, and how six areas of your business look, before you pay anything.
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A buyer asks
“Which of these two is right, how long have they been different, and what else have you shown me that came out of the wrong one?”
What closes it
Find the difference before anybody else does. It is usually one or two entries — a correction posted to one set and not the other, or a year end treated differently in each. Your accountant can normally place it in a morning from the underlying ledgers.
A buyer asks
“What is this, is it coming back, and will the balance be cleared before I own the company?”
What closes it
Ask your accountant for the account's movements line by line with a reason against each. Where the reason is personal, plan to clear the balance before you go to market rather than negotiating it at the end, when it is the only thing left to negotiate about.
A buyer asks
“Who signs off a quote, handles a complaint from your largest account, and runs payroll while you are away? Name them, and tell me what they are paid.”
What closes it
Pick a fortnight, write down who covers what before you go, and go. What breaks while you are away is the list. This is the slowest item here — months rather than an afternoon — which is exactly why it is the one to start first.
Sell it yourself
Selling with your accountant or a part-time non-executive, rather than an adviser on a success fee? Run the sale yourself, on the same tools advisers use.
Owner-led sale
a month (no VAT)A 3-month minimum, then 30 days’ notice.£195 a month (no VAT)
What you get
- A short anonymous summary for buyers
- The full document about your business
- A private space to share files with a buyer who has signed a confidentiality agreement
- Two people: you, and your accountant or non-executive
- One business: your own
- A person at teasr checks every document, and you can see who opened what
The trade-off
- No adviser success fee.
- Nobody negotiates for you. You deal with buyers yourself.
- Your accountant or non-executive is paid separately, by you.
Owners selling a smaller business who already have an accountant or a non-executive they trust, and who are comfortable dealing with buyers themselves.
An adviser is often worth it: buyers negotiate for a living, and many owners end up better off with someone doing the same on their side. If you’d rather have one, teasr is built for advisers too.
teasr does not act for you, find or introduce buyers, or advise on price, structure or terms. You are the seller.
Nine figures you already know
We don’t value businesses. That is an adviser’s job, once they have seen your accounts.
Who finds out
Nobody, until you decide otherwise.
The people you are worried about are not hackers. They are your sales director, your largest customer, and the competitor two towns over.
Stage two
Who sees you, and when
A demonstration
You finish the report
You switch yourself visible
Only then, and only to subscribing firms. You can switch it off again.
It lights the picture. Nothing here makes you visible.Advisers ask to talk to you
You pick one, or none. It costs you nothing either way.
teasr does not recommend advisers or act for either side. You decide whether advisers can see your profile, and you decide who you talk to. We take nothing from what you agree with them.
Ten minutes now
Or weeks of it later, with a buyer already in the room.
Already have an adviser? Run it anyway, then hand them the result.