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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 24 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
Financials
Financial year 2025
ADVOKATENKANTOOR JACQUES NICHELS from Gent, company number BE0455573564, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 115,394 after tax. For that financial year ADVOKATENKANTOOR JACQUES NICHELS recorded a gross margin of € 692,553 and equity of € 1.3 million. Compared with financial year 2023, the result moved from € 156,832 to € 115,394. 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.
€ 1.3 million
▲ 11% vs 2023
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 115,394
▼ 26% vs 2023
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 33,519
▼ 67% vs 2023
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Stays in the company
No dividend for 2025. Retained profit grew to € 177,299.
People and assets in 2025
2.5
▼ 0.2 vs 2023
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 334,429
▲ 102% vs 2023
€ 133,800 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.
€ 110,229
▲ € 105,259 vs 2023
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 67,605
€ 44,670 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 2 years.
€ 3,499
▼ 61% vs 2023
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 96,197
▼ 24% vs 2023
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2025 | Change 2023 → 2025 | |
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| Gross margin | € 362,019 | € 474,294 | € 436,754 | € 692,553 | ▲ 59% |
| Profit after taxes | € 101,637 | € 190,374 | € 156,832 | € 115,394 | ▼ 26% |
| Equity | € 863,389 | € 1,053,763 | € 1,210,595 | € 1,338,745 | ▲ 11% |
| Total debts | € 751,648 | € 782,169 | € 762,586 | € 644,327 | ▼ 16% |
| Cash | € 35,646 | € 33,075 | € 102,797 | € 33,519 | ▼ 67% |
| Land & buildings | € 832,271 | € 798,725 | € 781,219 | € 780,063 | |
| Retained profit | € -285,301 | € -94,927 | € 61,904 | € 177,299 | ▲ 186% |
| Bank debt | € 1,024 | € 0 | € 0 | € 67,605 | |
| Balance sheet total | € 1,615,036 | € 1,835,932 | € 1,973,181 | € 2,037,288 | ▲ 3% |
| Employees (FTE) | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.5 | ▼ 0.2 |
Key figures of ADVOKATENKANTOOR JACQUES NICHELS, fiscal years 2021 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 30 July 2027.
What happened to ADVOKATENKANTOOR JACQUES NICHELS?
What happened at ADVOKATENKANTOOR JACQUES NICHELS in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 115,394 (▼ 26% vs 2023). Source: NBB ↗
- New establishment in Sint-Martens-Latem. KBO
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 101,637 profit in 2021 to € 115,394 profit in 2025.
Paid € 227,231 in corporate taxes since 2021.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 190,374 profit.
On average € 277,000 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind ADVOKATENKANTOOR JACQUES NICHELS is Nichels Jacques.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Nichels Jacques
Director
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Maaltebruggestraat 298
9000 Gent
Eikeldreef 8 box A
9830 Sint-Martens-Latem
Active since 25 November 2010
What is an establishment unit? An establishment unit is a geographically identifiable place where activities of the enterprise are carried out.
Details
- Company number
- 0455.573.564
- VAT number
- BE 0455.573.564
- Registered office
- Maaltebruggestraat 298, 9000 Gent
- Names & denominations
- ADVOKATENKANTOOR JACQUES NICHELS
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 29 June 1995
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 1 Jan 2001
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