PHOENIX SOFTWARE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-11-30 (in 6mo)
Last filed for 2025-02-28
Confirmation statement due
2026-10-29 (in 5mo)
Last made up 2025-10-15
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£23M
+2.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£8M
+16.8% vs 2024
Employees
448
+11.2% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£19M
+26.2% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- PHOENIX SOFTWARE LIMITED 1990-11-19 → present
- RECALLNOTION LIMITED 1990-10-15 → 1990-11-19
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-02-28
| Metric | Trend | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £685,381,000 | £848,162,000 | |
| Operating profit | £12,562,000 | £15,061,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £15,063,000 | £19,004,000 | |
| Net profit | £11,744,000 | £13,919,000 | |
| Cash | £22,042,000 | £22,610,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £7,711,000 | £8,742,000 | |
| Net assets | £6,945,000 | £8,114,000 | |
| Equity | £6,945,000 | £8,114,000 | |
| Average employees | 403 | 448 | |
| Wages | £23,011,000 | £26,783,000 |
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
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-28 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 1.8% | 1.8% | |
| Net margin | 1.7% | 1.6% | |
| Return on capital employed | 162.9% | 172.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 95.0% | 95.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.04x | 1.04x |
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.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“As a result of the above assessments, the directors consider that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, which comprises the period of at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements, that is 31 August 2026. There are no material uncertainties that would prevent the directors from being unable to make this statement. Accordingly, the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the Company's financial statements.”
Group structure
- PHOENIX SOFTWARE LIMITED · parent
- License Dashboard Limited 100%
Significant events
- “S R Rippon resigned on 31st December 2024.”
- “C M Taylor appointed on 1st November 2024.”
- “P J Goodrick appointed on 10th January 2025.”
- “On 27 March 2024, the FRC issued amendments to FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland and other FRSs - Periodic Review 2024.”
- “During the year the Company granted 250,300 (2024: 335,300) options under the Performance Incentive Share Plan.”
- “During the year the Company granted 155,958 (2024: 91,311) options under the Save as You Earn Scheme.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
7 active · 16 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GROENEWALD, Willem Karel | Secretary | 2021-12-01 | — | — |
| EMMS, Paul David | Director | 2014-11-01 | Feb 1967 | British |
| GOODRICK, Peter John | Director | 2025-01-10 | Jan 1982 | British |
| MARTIN, Keith Victor | Director | 2024-03-01 | Oct 1973 | British |
| METCALFE, Clare Lucy | Director | 2018-01-16 | Sep 1968 | British |
| MUDD, Samantha Jayne | Director | 2009-07-01 | Apr 1969 | British |
| TAYLOR, Craig Michael | Director | 2024-11-01 | Jul 1985 | British |
Show 16 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLE LAMB, Lisa Jane | Secretary | 2000-12-15 | 2007-09-25 |
| MARSHALL, Suzanne Elizabeth | Secretary | — | 2000-12-15 |
| MARSHALL-FORSYTH, Suzanne Elizabeth | Secretary | 2007-09-25 | 2017-09-28 |
| COLE, Lisa Jane | Director | 1999-07-22 | 2007-09-25 |
| DENNING, Roland John | Director | 2003-10-07 | 2008-10-31 |
| DRINKALL, Janet Sandra | Director | — | 2000-12-15 |
| ELLIS, Jonathan Simon | Director | 2014-12-01 | 2017-10-23 |
| FORSYTH, John Ewan | Director | 2000-11-01 | 2017-09-28 |
| GILLETT, Richard Mark | Director | 1999-07-22 | 2009-07-01 |
| GOLDSBOROUGH, Darren Adrian | Director | 2024-03-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| MARSHALL-FORSYTH, Suzanne Elizabeth | Director | — | 2017-09-28 |
| MURPHY, Neil Robert | Director | 2017-09-28 | 2024-02-21 |
| NYATI, Mteto | Director | 2019-09-20 | 2021-01-06 |
| RICHARDSON, Keith Alan | Director | 2017-09-28 | 2021-11-30 |
| RIPPON, Simon | Director | 2022-01-11 | 2024-12-31 |
| VENTER, Robert Eben | Director | 2017-09-28 | 2019-09-20 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bytes Technology Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2022-02-24 | Active |
| Blenheim Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2022-02-24 |
| Mrs Suzanne Elizabeth Marshall-Forsyth | Individual | Shares 50–75% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
| Mr John Ewan Forsyth | Individual | Shares 25–50% | 2016-04-06 | Ceased 2016-04-06 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 185 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-10-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-08-12 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-01-10 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-03 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-10-21 | AD02 | address | Change sail address company with old address new address | |
| 2024-07-31 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-03-08 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-03-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-03-01 | AD01 | address | Change registered office address company with date old address new address | |
| 2023-10-18 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-07-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-10-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2022-09-22 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-03-01 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-03-01 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2022-01-11 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
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.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-02-28 vs 2024-02-29
-
Turnover
+23.8%
£685,381,000 £848,162,000
-
Cash
+2.6%
£22,042,000 £22,610,000
-
Net assets
+16.8%
£6,945,000 £8,114,000
-
Employees
+11.2%
403 448
-
Operating profit
+19.9%
£12,562,000 £15,061,000
-
Profit before tax
+26.2%
£15,063,000 £19,004,000
-
Wages
+16.4%
£23,011,000 £26,783,000
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