How UK Accountancy Practices Are Valued: GRF Multiples Explained
What a GRF multiple actually is, why UK accountancy practices typically sell for 0.8–1.6x gross recurring fees, and what moves your firm up or down the range.
Plain-English guides on selling, valuing and growing UK professional services firms — plus our views on the private equity and private credit market.
What a GRF multiple actually is, why UK accountancy practices typically sell for 0.8–1.6x gross recurring fees, and what moves your firm up or down the range.
The full journey of selling a UK accountancy practice — from deciding it's time, through valuation, buyer types, due diligence and completion, in plain English.
Internal buyout, trade sale, consolidator, platform partnership or wind-down — the five realistic succession routes for UK firm founders, compared honestly.
Most UK practice sales include an earn-out. Here's how they work, the mechanics that protect sellers, and the clauses that quietly shift risk onto you.
Private equity has arrived in UK accountancy at scale — Grant Thornton, Evelyn Partners, Azets, Xeinadin. A map of the consolidation wave and what it means for independent firms.
The arithmetic behind buy-and-build: multiple arbitrage, shared infrastructure and compounding integration — explained in plain English.
Interviewing a PE buyer for your firm? These ten questions reveal how they operate, what happens to your people, and whether the price is real.
Thousands of UK professional services founders are approaching retirement without a succession plan. The demographic maths behind the decade's quietest investment story.
A practical pre-sale checklist for UK practice owners — twelve improvements, most costing little, that measurably raise what buyers will pay.
IFA firms have their own succession market — recurring fee books, client suitability duties and a consolidation wave of their own. A plain-English guide for advice firm founders.
Finance in the UK is biased, bureaucratic and built for insiders. From private equity for service-based SMEs to accessible private credit, we’re rewriting the funding playbook.
Not all PE is cut-throat and corporate. How we use it to grow service-based firms across the UK with care, modernisation and long-term value.
A faster, more flexible, founder-friendly way to access capital without selling equity — and why it’s core to the Founder Capital model.
Equity, debt, grants — what’s the difference, and which one’s right for your business? A plain-English guide.
The 7 truths every UK founder should know before signing a PE deal — plus how Founder Capital does it differently.
Startup grants are confusing, opaque, and often out of reach. Found Funding simplifies the process and helps UK founders unlock hidden capital.
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