MICROLISE LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-08 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-25
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£10M
-36.5% vs 2023
Net assets
£10M
-7.7% vs 2023
Employees
576
+18.5% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£1M
-154.9% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Technology median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £66,175,000 | £77,242,000 | |
| Operating profit | £2,243,000 | -£1,403,000 | |
| Profit before tax | £2,337,000 | -£1,284,000 | |
| Net profit | £1,442,000 | -£1,536,000 | |
| Cash | £15,867,000 | £10,071,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £27,503,000 | £29,909,000 | |
| Net assets | £10,433,000 | £9,625,000 | |
| Equity | £10,433,000 | £9,625,000 | |
| Average employees | 486 | 576 | |
| Wages | £23,908,000 | £29,556,000 |
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 | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 3.4% | -1.8% | |
| Net margin | 2.2% | -2.0% | |
| Return on capital employed | 8.2% | -4.7% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 84.0% | 86.0% | |
| Current ratio | 1.37x | 1.39x | |
| Interest cover | 25.20x | -13.11x |
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 101
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors have concluded, on the basis of current and forecast trading for the period to December 2025 and related expected cash flows and available sources of finance, that it remains appropriate to prepare these financial statements on the basis of a going concern. The company is the main trading entity in the Microlise Group, has been consistently profitable and utilises the Group cash resources as required.”
Group structure
- MICROLISE LIMITED · parent
- Enterprise Software Systems
Significant events
- “On 31 October 2024, Microlise experienced a cyber security incident involving unauthorised activity detected on its network.”
- “During the period, the Group of which Microlise Limited is a part completed the acquisition of Enterprise Software Systems (ESS) in January 2024.”
- “A business trade and asset transfer of ESS took place on 31 May 2024.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 9 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WIGHTMAN, Nicholas James | Secretary | 2018-04-24 | — | — |
| RAZA, Nadeem | Director | 2008-04-04 | Apr 1967 | British |
| WIGHTMAN, Nicholas James | Director | 2023-05-24 | Jun 1977 | British |
Show 9 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAZA, Nadeem | Secretary | 2007-10-02 | 2008-04-04 |
| THEOBALD, Lynne Elizabeth | Secretary | 1995-03-21 | 2007-09-28 |
| WYNN, William | Secretary | 2008-04-04 | 2018-04-24 |
| SAME-DAY COMPANY SERVICES LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Secretary | 1995-03-21 | 1995-03-21 |
| ALLUM, Roy | Director | 1995-03-21 | 2008-04-04 |
| BEWICK, Simon | Director | 2008-04-04 | 2016-09-30 |
| HARBEY, Robert David | Director | 2008-04-04 | 2021-06-30 |
| WYNN, William | Director | 2008-04-04 | 2023-05-31 |
| WILDMAN & BATTELL LIMITED | Corporate Nominee Director | 1995-03-21 | 1995-03-21 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microlise Group Plc | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2021-10-18 | Active |
| Microlise Group Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2018-12-11 | Ceased 2021-10-18 |
| Mr Nadeem Raza | Individual | Significant influence | 2017-03-01 | Ceased 2018-12-11 |
| Mr Robert David Harbey | Individual | Significant influence | 2017-03-01 | Ceased 2018-12-11 |
| Mr Matthew John Hague | Individual | Significant influence | 2017-03-01 | Ceased 2018-12-11 |
| Mr William Wynn | Individual | Significant influence | 2017-03-01 | Ceased 2018-12-11 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 120 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2021-12-06 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2021-12-06 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-01 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-05-09 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-09-05 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-04-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-06-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-02 | RP04AP01 | officers | Second filing of director appointment with name | |
| 2023-06-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-05-30 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-11-25 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-06-23 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2022-01-05 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current extended | |
| 2022-01-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2021-12-06 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2021-12-06 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2021-11-02 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2021-10-22 | PSC02 | persons-with-significant-control | Notification of a person with significant control | |
| 2021-10-22 | PSC07 | persons-with-significant-control | Cessation of a person with significant control | |
| 2021-07-19 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2021-07-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination 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.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+16.7%
£66,175,000 £77,242,000
-
Cash
-36.5%
£15,867,000 £10,071,000
-
Net assets
-7.7%
£10,433,000 £9,625,000
-
Employees
+18.5%
486 576
-
Operating profit
-162.6%
£2,243,000 -£1,403,000
-
Profit before tax
-154.9%
£2,337,000 -£1,284,000
-
Wages
+23.6%
£23,908,000 £29,556,000
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