ABSOLUTE SOFTWARE EMEA LIMITED
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Cash
£10M
+270.1% highest in 6 filed years
Net assets
£273K
+139.3% highest in 6 filed years
Employees
48
+26.3% highest in 6 filed years
Profit before tax
£1.5M
+50.3% highest in 4 filed years
Watchouts
Facts from the Companies House register and the latest accounts — not a rating
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1 PSC ceased in last 24 months
Significant control changed hands — see the Ownership section.
Net assets
6-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
6-year trend · Δ = latest vs prior filed period · latest reflected 2025-06-30
| Metric | Trend | 2020-06-30 | 2021-06-30 | 2022-06-30 | 2023-06-30 | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 | Δ vs prior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | — | — | £18,877,616 | £15,340,522 | £26,056,771 | £20,598,836 | -20.9% | |
| Operating profit | — | — | £830,615 | £248,716 | £977,084 | £1,345,096 | +37.7% | |
| Profit before tax | — | — | £830,615 | £248,716 | £977,084 | £1,468,499 | +50.3% | |
| Net profit | £486,943 | £940,912 | £854,063 | £238,692 | £756,385 | £1,063,562 | +40.6% | |
| Cash | £1,216,482 | £1,039,959 | £1,469,119 | £1,686,220 | £2,828,585 | £10,469,619 | +270.1% | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | -£4,195,538 | -£3,218,144 | £115,274 | £682,158 | £1,564,851 | £2,554,976 | +63.3% | |
| Net assets | -£4,195,538 | -£3,218,144 | -£2,166,129 | -£1,599,245 | -£693,873 | £272,776 | +139.3% | |
| Equity | -£4,195,538 | -£3,218,144 | -£2,166,129 | -£1,599,245 | -£693,873 | £272,776 | +139.3% | |
| Average employees | 17 | 18 | 20 | 37 | 38 | 48 | +26.3% | |
| Wages | — | — | £2,301,741 | £4,571,984 | £6,077,849 | £6,583,463 | +8.3% | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. The Δ column is the change from the prior filed period as a percentage of |prior|; lines a company doesn't report show —. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2020-06-30 | 2021-06-30 | 2022-06-30 | 2023-06-30 | 2024-06-30 | 2025-06-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | — | — | 4.4% | 1.6% | 3.7% | 6.5% | |
| Net margin | — | — | 4.5% | 1.6% | 2.9% | 5.2% | |
| Return on capital employed | — | — | 720.6% | 36.5% | 62.4% | 52.6% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | — | — | — | — | 103.4% | 98.7% | |
| Current ratio | — | — | — | — | 1.03x | 1.08x | |
| Interest cover | — | — | — | — | — | 31.52x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- ABSOLUTE SOFTWARE EMEA LIMITED 2006-09-12 → present
- UK BEACHHEAD LIMITED 2006-05-02 → 2006-09-12
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Blick Rothenberg Audit LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the parent company has adequate resources to continue to support the company. Accordingly they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”
Significant events
- “The decrease [in turnover] was primarily due to timing of billings and a decrease in multi-year contracts billed during the year.”
- “Net assets were £273k as at 30 June 2025 (2024: net liabilities of £694k), an increase of £967k from 30 June 2024. The increase in net assets was primarily due to increase in cash due to timing of cash collections on sales, partially offset by a decrease in amounts due from to group undertakings.”
- “The company participated in an equity-settled share based payment arrangement in which share options in its parent company were issued to employees of the company... This arrangement was cancelled during the year ended 30 June 2024. No further share based payments are in place afterwards.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZEDRA COSEC (UK) LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2013-08-09 | — | — |
| GATES, Saul Maher | Director | 2024-02-01 | Mar 1968 | American |
| WOODS, Mark | Director | 2023-12-31 | Aug 1980 | American |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| @UKPLC CLIENT SECRETARY LTD | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 2006-05-02 | 2006-10-02 |
| F&L LEGAL LLP | Corporate Secretary | 2009-07-01 | 2013-08-09 |
| WRIGHTS SECRETARIES LIMITED | Corporate Secretary | 2006-10-02 | 2009-07-01 |
| CHASE, Robert George | Director | 2006-08-24 | 2014-03-24 |
| CHESS, Peter John | Director | 2022-12-05 | 2023-12-31 |
| DESHARNAIS, Matthew | Director | 2010-01-04 | 2011-03-04 |
| GATOFF, Steven Howard | Director | 2020-11-13 | 2022-03-07 |
| GREENBERG, Michael David | Director | 2022-03-07 | 2022-12-05 |
| LE JEAL, James Matthew | Director | 2022-12-05 | 2023-12-31 |
| LIVINGSTON, John Richard Philip | Director | 2006-08-24 | 2013-12-11 |
| NELSON, Caroline | Director | 2014-03-24 | 2015-06-10 |
| OLSEN, Errol Shayne | Director | 2010-07-12 | 2019-12-31 |
| RAMSDEN, Leigh Palmer | Director | 2014-03-24 | 2020-11-13 |
| WIEBE, Trevor John | Director | 2006-05-02 | 2008-11-02 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absolute Software Corporation | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2025-01-21 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 90 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-05-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-05-02 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-04-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-21 | PSC08 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control statement | |
| 2025-01-21 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2024-09-14 | DISS40 | gazette | Gazette filings brought up to date | |
| 2024-09-13 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-03 | GAZ1 | gazette | Gazette notice compulsory | |
| 2024-05-14 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-03-13 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-01-09 | CH04 | officers | Change corporate secretary company with change date | |
| 2024-01-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-01-07 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-12-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type small | |
| 2023-05-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-04-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-04-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 2
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.