{"id":3090,"slug":"sampra-unpaid-balance-ratios-2024","title":"SAMPRA’s unpaid royalty balance against its own payout and revenue, 2024","source":"Computed from this desk's sampra-payout-and-unpaid-balance-2024 dataset, itself taken from SAMPRA's Annual Review 2024","source_url":"https:\/\/www.sampra.org.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Sampra-AR-2024.pdf","source_type":"computed","method":"Four ratios, each computed here from figures registered in this desk's sampra-payout-and-unpaid-balance-2024 dataset for the year ended 31 December 2024, and nothing else. Unpaid balance divided by royalties paid during the year is R303,662,657 divided by R176,700,000, which is 1.72. Royalties paid during the year as a share of licence fees collected is R176,700,000 divided by R223,119,341, which is 79.2 per cent. Unpaid balance as a share of licence fees collected is R303,662,657 divided by R223,119,341, which is 136.1 per cent, and it agrees with the distribution_liability_pct_of_revenue column already registered in sampra-revenue-and-distribution-liability. Income not from licence fees, as a share of total income, is total income of R282,500,000 less audited licence fees of R223,119,341, divided by R282,500,000, which is 21.0 per cent; it is reported as a definitional difference between a figure the report states in prose and a figure it audits to the rand, not as a measured investment-income line, because the report's summary does not break that difference out and this desk has not measured it. Two of the three inputs, total income and royalties paid, are stated in the source to R0.1m, so each ratio drawing on them carries an imprecision of up to R50,000 in one of its terms; the first ratio is therefore reported to two decimal places and the percentages to one. The two sensitivity rows bound that rounding directly: taking the payout at the top of its band, R176,750,000, gives 1.718, and taking it at the bottom, R176,650,000, gives 1.719, so the rounding in the source cannot move the headline ratio away from 1.72. These are stock-to-flow and share ratios for one organisation in one financial year. They are not a trend, not a forecast, and not a comparison with any other collecting society except where this desk states one explicitly.","unit":"ratio","license":"Afrobeats Wire's compilation and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0. Rights in the underlying source data remain with the source named above.","confidence":"medium","retrieved":"2026-08-31 13:50:08","n":6,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"measure","label":"Ratio, year ended 31 December 2024","type":"text"},{"key":"value","label":"Value","type":"number"},{"key":"unit_label","label":"Unit","type":"text"}],"rows":[{"measure":"Unpaid royalty balance divided by royalties paid during the year","value":1.72,"unit_label":"multiple"},{"measure":"Unpaid royalty balance as a share of licence fees collected","value":136.1,"unit_label":"per cent"},{"measure":"Royalties paid during the year as a share of licence fees collected","value":79.2,"unit_label":"per cent"},{"measure":"Income not from licence fees, as a share of stated total income","value":21,"unit_label":"per cent"},{"measure":"Sensitivity: unpaid balance divided by royalties paid, taking the payout at the top of its rounding band","value":1.718,"unit_label":"multiple"},{"measure":"Sensitivity: unpaid balance divided by royalties paid, taking the payout at the bottom of its rounding band","value":1.719,"unit_label":"multiple"}]}