Financials
Financial year 2025
ADVOCATENKANTOOR PAUL COOLS from Antwerpen, company number BE0449079613, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 427,662 after tax. For that financial year ADVOCATENKANTOOR PAUL COOLS recorded a gross margin of € 1.4 million and equity of € 2.9 million. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 568,912 to € 427,662. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. A strong own buffer against the debts. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 18, 2026.
€ 2.9 million
▲ 18% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 427,662
▼ 25% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.4 million
▲ 29% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 2.8 million.
People and assets in 2025
11.8
▲ 1.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 729,595
▲ 23% vs 2024
€ 61,800 per full-time equivalent. Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 5,137
▼ 23% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 151,060
▲ 125% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 233,615
▼ 9% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 81,106
▼ 51% vs 2024
Wages, holiday pay and social contributions still to pay. No outstanding taxes.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 607,532 | € 1,161,453 | € 1,480,581 | € 1,389,310 | ▼ 6% |
| Profit after taxes | € 60,858 | € 329,518 | € 568,912 | € 427,662 | ▼ 25% |
| Equity | € 2,139,835 | € 2,140,870 | € 2,433,475 | € 2,861,137 | ▲ 18% |
| Total debts | € 419,517 | € 810,196 | € 703,303 | € 685,113 | ▼ 3% |
| Cash | € 992,676 | € 748,490 | € 1,049,970 | € 1,354,798 | ▲ 29% |
| Land & buildings | € 82,277 | € 71,700 | € 60,582 | € 42,066 | ▼ 31% |
| Retained profit | € 2,121,085 | € 2,122,120 | € 2,414,725 | € 2,842,387 | ▲ 18% |
| Dividend | € 0 | € 328,484 | € 276,307 | € 0 | ▼ 100% |
| Bank debt | € 98,327 | € 187,256 | € 67,198 | € 151,060 | ▲ 125% |
| Balance sheet total | € 2,559,353 | € 2,951,065 | € 3,136,778 | € 3,546,250 | ▲ 13% |
| Employees (FTE) | 10.9 | 10.7 | 10.5 | 11.8 | ▲ 1.3 |
Key figures of ADVOCATENKANTOOR PAUL COOLS, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 July 2027.
What happened to ADVOCATENKANTOOR PAUL COOLS?
What happened at ADVOCATENKANTOOR PAUL COOLS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 427,662 (▼ 25% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- New establishment in Antwerpen. KBO
- Paul Cools became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 60,858 profit in 2022 to € 427,662 profit in 2025.
Paid € 680,230 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 568,912 profit.
On average € 117,700 of value added per employee in 2025.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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Management
Behind ADVOCATENKANTOOR PAUL COOLS is Paul Cools. It owns 100% of Mies Onofre, S.L. itself.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
since 1992
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Duboisstraat 46
2060 Antwerpen
Tavernierkaai 2 box 14
2000 Antwerpen
Active since 1 March 2002
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Details
- Company number
- 0449.079.613
- VAT number
- BE 0449.079.613
- Registered office
- Duboisstraat 46, 2060 Antwerpen
- Names & denominations
- ADVOCATENKANTOOR PAUL COOLS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 29 December 1992
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