Acorah Software Products Limited
Registered name: ACORAH SOFTWARE PRODUCTS LIMITED
Part of Malbec Topco Limited groupAcorah Software Products Limited made £15.2m revenue and £3m profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025.
Acorah Software Products Limited’s revenue grew 16% to £15.2m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £3m profit and 118 employees. The company is classified under “business and domestic software development” and is based in Wokingham; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Wokingham, South East
- Age
- 26 yrs · since 2000
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £11.2m | £13m | £15.2m |
| Cost of sales | £3.3m | £3.7m | −£4m |
| Gross profit | £7.9m | £9.3m | £11.2m |
| Operating profit | £1.6m | £1.9m | £4m |
| Profit before tax | £1.6m | £1.8m | £3m |
| Profit after tax | £1.6m | £2.4m | £3m |
| Profit (best available) | £1.6m | £2.4m | £3m |
| Staff costs | £7.7m | £8.9m | — |
| Employees (average) | 105 | 115 | 118 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 14.7% | 18.3% | 19.8% |
| Gross margin | 70.8% | 71.6% | 73.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £106k | £113k | £129k |
| Profit per employee | £15.6k | £20.8k | £25.5k |
| Cash conversion | −136.1% | −232.5% | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲16.6% | ▲16.4% |
| Profit growth | — | ▲45.3% | ▲26% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲9.5% | ▲2.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2.3m | £2.4m | — |
| Net assets | £5.6m | £6.4m | — |
| Fixed assets | £3m | £3.6m | — |
| Current assets | £7.3m | £8.5m | — |
| Debtors | £3.6m | £5.2m | — |
| Deferred income | £2.7m | £3.2m | — |
| Cash from operations | −£2.2m | −£4.3m | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Aug 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 19.8%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 73.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £129k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £25.5k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- ▲3%
- Now 118
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Malbec Topco Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Malbec Midco Limited75–100%
- Malbec Bidco Limited75–100%
- Acorah Newco Limited75–100%
- Acorah Software Products Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £3m), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Aug 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 12 Oct 2026
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