The Firmwatch take
Cipher Films Limited is a 22-year-old publishing and media, subject to strike-off action. The latest filed accounts (year to 30 August 2024) show −£196k in net assets, with 1 distress signal extracted from the filing (negative net assets). Most recent public risk event: first gazette notice.
Auto-generated from filings·Refreshed 24 May 2026
1 public risk event on file
Pulse · Net assets
Only one period of accounts has been filed since this company was indexed. A trajectory will appear here as more filings arrive.
Incorporated
7 August 2003
22 years on the register
Sector
Film, video, TV, music production
SIC 59111 · matched to division
Size
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Net assets
−£196k
-£195,920
Cash at bank
Not disclosed
Not required for this filing type
Risk events
1 on file
Public Gazette / Companies House
Analytics
Risk, value and sector comparison
Insolvency risk
59/100
elevated risk
Estimated public-data value
-£195,920 - £0
low confidence - negative net assets visible value
Sector comparison
Sector: Publishing and Media
Sample: 449 companies
Negative net assets: 23.6%
- Net assets vs sector median
- -£196,020
- Working capital vs sector median
- -£196,033
- Sector median current ratio
- 0.97
Negative net assets
Visible liabilities exceed visible assets in the extracted accounts.
Negative working capital
Short-term liabilities are higher than short-term assets in the public balance sheet.
Accounts are ageing
The latest extracted accounts period is more than 21 months old.
Risk and value are estimates from public accounts only. They are not a credit score, valuation opinion or insolvency prediction guarantee. See methodology.
Balance sheet
Full extracted balance sheet
Cash at bank
Bank balances disclosed in the public accounts.
Not disclosed
Current assets
Assets expected to turn into cash within one year.
Not disclosed
Current liabilities
Amounts due within one year (short-term creditors).
Not disclosed
Working capital
Current assets minus current liabilities.
-£195,939
Fixed assets
Long-term tangible and intangible assets.
£252
Total assets less current liabilities
Fixed assets plus working capital.
-£195,687
Net assets
What's left after liabilities are deducted from assets.
-£195,920
Equity (capital & reserves)
Shareholder funds.
£13,333
Figures extracted from the company's public XBRL/iXBRL filing. Fields shown as Not disclosed are not legally required for this filing type and are absent from the source document — they are not necessarily zero.
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