Company registration number 07827580 (England and Wales)
FRD ASSOCIATES LIMITED
UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2023
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FRD ASSOCIATES LIMITED
CONTENTS
Page
Accountants' report
1
Balance sheet
2
Notes to the financial statements
3 - 6
FRD ASSOCIATES LIMITED
ACCOUNTANTS' REPORT TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS ON THE PREPARATION OF THE UNAUDITED STATUTORY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF FRD ASSOCIATES LIMITED FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2023
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In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the financial statements of FRD Associates Limited for the year ended 30 November 2023 which comprise, the balance sheet and the related notes from the company’s accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.
As a practising member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at https://www.icaew.com/regulation.
This report is made solely to the board of directors of FRD Associates Limited, as a body, in accordance with our terms of engagement. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the financial statements of FRD Associates Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the board of directors of FRD Associates Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16 AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than FRD Associates Limited and its board of directors as a body, for our work or for this report.
It is your duty to ensure that FRD Associates Limited has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory financial statements that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and loss of FRD Associates Limited. You consider that FRD Associates Limited is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the year.
We have not been instructed to carry out an audit or a review of the financial statements of FRD Associates Limited. For this reason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the statutory financial statements.
Ormerod Rutter Limited
21 August 2024
Chartered Accountants
The Oakley
Kidderminster Road
Droitwich
Worcestershire
WR9 9AY
FRD ASSOCIATES LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT
30 NOVEMBER 2023
30 November 2023
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2023
2022
Notes
£
£
£
£
Fixed assets
Investments
4
3
3
Current assets
Debtors
5
1,167,142
1,166,569
Cash at bank and in hand
712
166
1,167,854
1,166,735
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
6
(368,044)
(347,043)
Net current assets
799,810
819,692
Total assets less current liabilities
799,813
819,695
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
7
(15,833)
(25,833)
Net assets
783,980
793,862
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital
9
3
3
Profit and loss reserves
783,977
793,859
Total equity
783,980
793,862
The directors of the company have elected not to include a copy of the profit and loss account within the financial statements.true
For the financial year ended 30 November 2023 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of financial statements.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year in question in accordance with section 476.
These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
The financial statements were approved by the board of directors and authorised for issue on 21 August 2024 and are signed on its behalf by:
Mr S P Dodd
Director
Company registration number 07827580 (England and Wales)
FRD ASSOCIATES LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2023
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1
Accounting policies
Company information
FRD Associates Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is St Pauls House, 23 St Pauls Square, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, B3 1RB.
1.1
Accounting convention
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”) and the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 as applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. The disclosure requirements of section 1A of FRS 102 have been applied other than where additional disclosure is required to show a true and fair view.
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.
The company has taken advantage of the exemption under section 399 of the Companies Act 2006 not to prepare consolidated accounts, on the basis that the group of which this is the parent qualifies as a small group. The financial statements present information about the company as an individual entity and not about its group.
1.2
Tangible fixed assets
Tangible fixed assets are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost or valuation, net of depreciation and any impairment losses.
Depreciation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of assets less their residual values over their useful lives on the following bases:
Computer equipment
33% on cost
1.3
Fixed asset investments
Interests in subsidiaries, associates and jointly controlled entities are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost less any accumulated impairment losses. The investments are assessed for impairment at each reporting date and any impairment losses or reversals of impairment losses are recognised immediately in profit or loss.
A subsidiary is an entity controlled by the company. Control is the power to govern the financial and operating policies of the entity so as to obtain benefits from its activities.
An associate is an entity, being neither a subsidiary nor a joint venture, in which the company holds a long-term interest and where the company has significant influence. The company considers that it has significant influence where it has the power to participate in the financial and operating decisions of the associate.
Entities in which the company has a long term interest and shares control under a contractual arrangement are classified as jointly controlled entities.
1.4
Taxation
The tax expense represents the sum of the tax currently payable and deferred tax.
FRD ASSOCIATES LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2023
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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Current tax
The tax currently payable is based on taxable profit for the year. Taxable profit differs from net profit as reported in the profit and loss account because it excludes items of income or expense that are taxable or deductible in other years and it further excludes items that are never taxable or deductible. The company’s liability for current tax is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting end date.
Deferred tax
Deferred tax liabilities are generally recognised for all timing differences and deferred tax assets are recognised to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits. Such assets and liabilities are not recognised if the timing difference arises from goodwill or from the initial recognition of other assets and liabilities in a transaction that affects neither the tax profit nor the accounting profit.
The carrying amount of deferred tax assets is reviewed at each reporting end date and reduced to the extent that it is no longer probable that sufficient taxable profits will be available to allow all or part of the asset to be recovered. Deferred tax is calculated at the tax rates that are expected to apply in the period when the liability is settled or the asset is realised. Deferred tax is charged or credited in the profit and loss account, except when it relates to items charged or credited directly to equity, in which case the deferred tax is also dealt with in equity. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset when the company has a legally enforceable right to offset current tax assets and liabilities and the deferred tax assets and liabilities relate to taxes levied by the same tax authority.
2
Employees
The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:
2023
2022
Number
Number
Total
3
3
3
Tangible fixed assets
Computer equipment
£
Cost
At 1 December 2022 and 30 November 2023
437
Depreciation and impairment
At 1 December 2022 and 30 November 2023
437
Carrying amount
At 30 November 2023
At 30 November 2022
FRD ASSOCIATES LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2023
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4
Fixed asset investments
2023
2022
£
£
Shares in group undertakings and participating interests
3
3
5
Debtors
2023
2022
Amounts falling due within one year:
£
£
Amounts owed by group undertakings
1,166,555
1,162,782
Other debtors
587
3,787
1,167,142
1,166,569
6
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2023
2022
£
£
Bank loans
10,000
10,000
Trade creditors
1,293
1,098
Amounts owed to group undertakings
262,422
242,361
Other creditors
94,329
93,584
368,044
347,043
7
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year
2023
2022
£
£
Bank loans and overdrafts
15,833
25,833
8
Secured debts
The following secured debts are included within creditors:
2023
2022
£
£
Director's loan account
92,025
92,025
Bank loans
25,833
35,833
117,858
445,696
Ms J E Freeman, a director of the company, holds a debenture charge over the company, securing all monies due by a first legal mortgage over freehold and leasehold property and a fixed and floating charge over freehold and leasehold property to include all assets of the company.
Bank loans are secured by way of a government backed guarantee.
FRD ASSOCIATES LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 NOVEMBER 2023
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9
Called up share capital
2023
2022
2023
2022
Ordinary share capital
Number
Number
£
£
Issued and fully paid
Ordinary A of £1 each
3
3
3
3
10
Related party transactions
The company has taken advantage of exemption, under the terms of Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland', not to disclose related party transactions with wholly owned subsidiaries within the group.
11
Ultimate controlling party
There is no ultimate controlling party.