AUTHORS' LICENSING AND COLLECTING SOCIETY LIMITED

1. AUTHORS' LICENSING AND COLLECTING SOCIETY LIMITED 1987-10-07 → present
2. AUTHORS' LENDING AND COPYRIGHT SOCIETY LIMITED 1977-04-26 → 1987-10-07

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

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.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Moore Kingston Smith LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. AUTHORS' LICENSING AND COLLECTING SOCIETY LIMITED · parent
   1. Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd
   2. Audiovisual Licensing Alliance (AVLA) Limited 16.67%

Significant events

• “No post balance sheet events to report.”
• “Over the last year the key issue for ALCS has been UK and international policy around Artificial Intelligence and Copyright. ALCS engaged with the Government consultation on this issue - responding directly and supporting members in submitting their own responses - and we've taken part in a wide range of activities.”
• “With the General Election last year, we have had a new Government and many new parliamentarians to engage with and educate, based on the manifesto we created around the Write Share campaign.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

6

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

2

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -0.8%

  £45,609,278 → £45,234,921

• Cash

  -39.1%

  £5,366,136 → £3,267,054

• Net assets

  -9.7%

  £6,086,904 → £5,498,236

• Employees

  -4.5%

  44 → 42

• Operating profit

  +30%

  -£3,829,193 → -£2,680,712

• Profit before tax

  -227.6%

  £507,210 → -£647,082

• Wages

  +14.3%

  £2,010,195 → £2,297,029

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers