Registered number
SC101914
Bovill & Boyd (Engineering) Limited
Report and Accounts
30 November 2023
Bovill & Boyd (Engineering) Limited
Registered number: SC101914
Directors' Report
The directors present their report and accounts for the year ended 30 November 2023.
Principal activity
The principal activity of the company is the supply of general engineering goods.
Directors
The following persons served as directors during the year:
R D Jones
A Thurlbourn
T A Brown
Directors' responsibilities
The directors are responsible for preparing the report and accounts in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Company law requires the directors to prepare accounts for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the accounts in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the accounts unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these accounts, the directors are required to:
select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
prepare the accounts on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.
The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the accounts comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Disclosure of information to auditors
Each person who was a director at the time this report was approved confirms that:
so far as each director is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company's auditor is unaware; and
the directors have taken all the steps that they ought to have taken as directors in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditor is aware of that information.
Small company provisions
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
This report was approved by the board on 20 August 2024 and signed on its behalf.
A Thurlbourn
Director
Bovill & Boyd (Engineering) Limited
Independent auditor's report
to the members of Bovill & Boyd (Engineering) Limited
Opinion
We have audited the accounts of Bovill & Boyd (Engineering) Limited for the year ended 30 November 2023 which comprise the Profit and Loss Account, the Balance Sheet and notes to the accounts, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including FRS 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
In our opinion the accounts:
give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 30 November 2023 and of its profit for the year then ended;
have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice;
have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.
Basis of opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Conclusions relating to going concern
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
Other information
The other information comprises the information included in the annual report other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The directors are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
We have nothing to report in this regard.
Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
the information given in the directors’ report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
the directors’ report has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
Matters on which we are required to report by exception
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the directors’ report.
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
certain disclosures of directors’ remuneration specified by law are not made; or
we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or
the directors were not entitled to prepare the financial statements in accordance with the small companies regime and take advantage of the small companies’ exemptions in preparing the directors’ report and from the requirement to prepare a strategic report.
Responsibilities of directors
As explained more fully in the directors’ responsibilities statement, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud, is dependant upon the effectiveness of management controls and the nature, timing and extent of the audit procedures carried out, which included:
Assessing the susceptibility of the company to material misstatement, including how fraud might occur, by considering the key risks impacting the accounts; Undertaking procedures to evaluate and review the risk of management override of controls ; Enquiries of those charged with governance; Reviewing disclosures in the accounts; Validating inter group balances.
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.
Use of our report
This report is made solely to the company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
Christopher Pexton FCA
(Senior Statutory Auditor)
for and on behalf of 9 Bonhill Street
Begbies LONDON
Accountants and Statutory Auditors EC2A 4DJ
20 August 2024
Bovill & Boyd (Engineering) Limited
Profit and Loss Account
for the year ended 30 November 2023
2023 2022
£ £
Turnover 2,688,573 3,192,209
Cost of sales (1,311,872) (1,594,722)
Gross profit 1,376,701 1,597,487
Distribution costs (83,144) (88,031)
Administrative expenses (1,315,510) (1,217,476)
Operating (loss)/profit (21,953) 291,980
Profit on the disposal of tangible fixed assets - 1,675
Provision for loss on group debt 24,000 (77,000)
Interest receivable 33,917 -
Interest payable - (265)
Profit on ordinary activities before taxation 35,964 216,390
Tax on profit on ordinary activities (3,336) (56,636)
Profit for the financial year 32,628 159,754
Bovill & Boyd (Engineering) Limited
Registered number: SC101914
Balance Sheet
as at 30 November 2023
Notes 2023 2022
£ £
Fixed assets
Tangible assets 3 271,572 262,899
Current assets
Stocks 443,380 316,018
Debtors 5 1,530,596 1,636,950
Cash at bank and in hand 1,768,830 1,864,222
3,742,806 3,817,190
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year 6 (1,247,898) (1,346,857)
Net current assets 2,494,908 2,470,333
Total assets less current liabilities 2,766,480 2,733,232
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year 7 (4,900) (5,100)
Provisions for liabilities (3,100) (2,280)
Net assets 2,758,480 2,725,852
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital 19,608 19,608
Profit and loss account 2,738,872 2,706,244
Shareholders' funds 2,758,480 2,725,852
The accounts have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the special provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
A Thurlbourn
Director
Approved by the board on 20 August 2024
Bovill & Boyd (Engineering) Limited
Notes to the Accounts
for the year ended 30 November 2023
1 Accounting policies
Basis of preparation
The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with FRS 102, The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (as applied to small entities by section 1A of the standard).
Tangible fixed assets
Tangible fixed assets are measured at cost less accumulative depreciation and any accumulative impairment losses. Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets, other than freehold land, at rates calculated to write off the cost, less estimated residual value, of each asset evenly over its expected useful life, as follows:
Freehold Property 2% straight line basis
Motor Vehicles 25% reducing balance basis
Equipment, Fixtures and Fittings Between 10% and 25% straight line basis
Stocks
Stocks are measured at the lower of cost and estimated selling price less costs to complete and sell. Cost is determined using the first in first out method. The carrying amount of stock sold is recognised as an expense in the period in which the related revenue is recognised.
Debtors
Short term debtors are measured at transaction price (which is usually the invoice price), less any impairment losses for bad and doubtful debts. Loans and other financial assets are initially recognised at transaction price including any transaction costs and subsequently measured at amortised cost determined using the effective interest method, less any impairment losses for bad and doubtful debts.
Creditors
Short term creditors are measured at transaction price (which is usually the invoice price). Loans and other financial liabilities are initially recognised at transaction price net of any transaction costs and subsequently measured at amortised cost determined using the effective interest method.
Taxation
A current tax liability is recognised for the tax payable on the taxable profit of the current and past periods. A current tax asset is recognised in respect of a tax loss that can be carried back to recover tax paid in a previous period. Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences between the recognition of income and expenses in the financial statements and their inclusion in tax assessments. Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised only to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits. Deferred tax is measured using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference, except for revalued land and investment property where the tax rate that applies to the sale of the asset is used. Current and deferred tax assets and liabilities are not discounted.
Foreign currency translation
Transactions in foreign currencies are initially recognised at the rate of exchange ruling at the date of the transaction. At the end of each reporting period foreign currency monetary items are translated at the closing rate of exchange. Non-monetary items that are measured at historical cost are translated at the rate ruling at the date of the transaction. All differences are charged to profit or loss.
Leased assets
A lease is classified as a finance lease if it transfers substantially all the risks and rewards incidental to ownership. All other leases are classified as operating leases. The rights of use and obligations under finance leases are initially recognised as assets and liabilities at amounts equal to the fair value of the leased assets or, if lower, the present value of the minimum lease payments. Minimum lease payments are apportioned between the finance charge and the reduction in the outstanding liability using the effective interest rate method. The finance charge is allocated to each period during the lease so as to produce a constant periodic rate of interest on the remaining balance of the liability. Leased assets are depreciated in accordance with the company's policy for tangible fixed assets. If there is no reasonable certainty that ownership will be obtained at the end of the lease term, the asset is depreciated over the lower of the lease term and its useful life. Operating lease payments are recognised as an expense on a straight line basis over the lease term.
Pensions
Contributions to defined contribution plans are expensed in the period to which they relate.
Government Grants
Grants are accounted for under the accruals model as permitted by FRS 102. Grants relating to expenditure on tangible fixed assets are credited to the profit and loss account at the same rate as the depreciation on the assets to which the grant relates. The deferred element of the grant is included in creditors as deferred income. Grants of a revenue nature are recognised in "other operating income" within the profit and loss account in the period to which they relate.
2 Employees 2023 2022
Number Number
Average number of persons employed by the company 14 14
3 Tangible fixed assets
Freehold Property Equipment , Fixtures and Fittings Motor vehicles Total
£ £ £ £
Cost
At 1 December 2022 312,915 138,884 91,908 543,707
Additions - 22,431 24,303 46,734
At 30 November 2023 312,915 161,315 116,211 590,441
Depreciation
At 1 December 2022 147,305 109,143 24,360 280,808
Charge for the year 6,259 13,652 18,150 38,061
At 30 November 2023 153,564 122,795 42,510 318,869
Net book value
At 30 November 2023 159,351 38,520 73,701 271,572
At 30 November 2022 165,610 29,741 67,548 262,899
4 Investments
Investment in
fellow subsidiary
undertaking
£
Cost
At 1 December 2022 400,000
At 30 November 2023 400,000
Provision for diminution in value
At 1 December 2022 400,000
Provision in the year -
At 30 November 2023 400,000
Net book value
At 30 November 2023 -
At 30 November 2022 -
The Company holds a 50% interest in Bovill & Boyd (Technical Mouldings) Limited whose principal activity is the manufacture of precision moulded rubber components.
5 Debtors 2023 2022
£ £
Trade debtors 478,144 644,555
Amounts owed by group undertakings 1,014,696 966,132
Prepayments 37,756 26,263
1,530,596 1,636,950
6 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year 2023 2022
£ £
Trade creditors 297,982 473,227
Amounts owed to group undertakings 318,118 318,318
Corporation tax 2,516 59,160
Other taxes and social security costs 83,938 71,840
Accruals and deferred income 542,712 421,680
Related Company 2,632 2,632
1,247,898 1,346,857
7 Creditors: amounts falling due after one year 2023 2022
£ £
Deferred income - development grant 4,900 5,100
8 Development grants 2023 2022
£ £
At 1 December 2022 5,100 5,300
Transfer to profit and loss account (200) (200)
At 30 November 2023 4,900 5,100
9 Pension commitments
The company operates a defined contribution scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company in an independently administered fund. The pension cost charge represents contributions payable by the company to the fund and amounted to £175,450 (2022 : £23,780). There were no outstanding or prepaid contributions at either the beginning or end of the year.
10 Contingent liabilities
The company takes part in a group financial facility with the HSBC. This involves cross guarantees with all companies within the British Gaskets Group. A contingent liability therefore exists for the bank borrowings of the whole group. Total group indebtedness at the Balance Sheet date amounted to £Nil.
11 Related party transactions
The company, as a wholly owned subsidiary, has taken advantage of the exemption contained in Financial Reporting Standard 102 Section 1A - small entities and has not disclosed details of transactions or balances with entities which form part of the group.
12 Controlling party
The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of British Gaskets Limited whose registered office and principal place of business is 7 Brundon Lane, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 1XR.
The ultimate controlling party is R D Jones.
13 Other information
Bovill & Boyd (Engineering) Limited is a private company limited by shares and incorporated in Scotland. Its registered office is:
6 Langlands Square
Kelvin South Business Park
East Kilbride
Glasgow
G75 0YY
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