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Normalising fire safety profit

The add-backs you can evidence

Trace each fire safety profit adjustment to its records, continuing costs and replacement work with a fillable add-back schedule.

For sellers 12 pages 8-minute read Updated Oct 2026

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Who this guide is for

For a fire safety business owner preparing a profit reconciliation for a sale. Use it with your accountant to identify evidence gaps and unresolved buyer questions.

What you will take from it

  • Separate removing owner pay from paying for the work that remains.
  • Check continuing competence and delivery costs before proposing an add-back.
  • Connect remedial work to its accounts and price references to avoid counting it twice.

What is inside

  1. Start with the recorded cost
  2. Replace the owner's actual work
  3. Keep the cost of competence
  4. Match assessment income to delivery
  5. Count remedial work once

The tool: fire safety add-back schedule

A fillable worksheet for one proposed adjustment, recording its amount, evidence, continuing and replacement costs, and unresolved buyer question.

It comes as its own file as well as a page of the guide.

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Tell us who you are and the guide opens on this page, with the fire safety add-back schedule as its own file.

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Prepared by Simon Read

Founder & Managing Director, Reads Advice Partners Ltd

Simon founded Reads M&A Advisory to specialise in trades such as HVAC, electrical, fire safety and facilities management, and has spent many years selling businesses to independent buyers, trade companies and private equity-backed groups across the UK.

Updated Oct 2026. The Autumn Budget is scheduled for Oct 2026, and we review every guide after it.

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