REGISTERED NUMBER: |
G. R. Merchant Limited |
Unaudited Financial Statements |
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 |
REGISTERED NUMBER: |
G. R. Merchant Limited |
Unaudited Financial Statements |
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 |
G. R. Merchant Limited (Registered number: 05667107) |
Contents of the Financial Statements |
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 |
Page |
Company information | 1 |
Chartered accountants' report | 2 |
Statement of financial position | 3 | to | 4 |
Notes to the financial statements | 5 | to | 7 |
G. R. Merchant Limited |
Company Information |
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 |
Director: |
Registered office: |
Business address: |
Registered number: |
Accountants: |
Bank House |
Broad Street |
Spalding |
Lincolnshire |
PE11 1TB |
Chartered Accountants' Report to the Director |
on the Unaudited Financial Statements of |
G. R. Merchant Limited |
The following reproduces the text of the report prepared for the director in respect of the company's annual unaudited financial statements. In accordance with the Companies Act 2006, the company is only required to file a Statement of financial position. Readers are cautioned that the Income statement and certain other primary statements and the Director's report are not required to be filed with the Registrar of Companies. |
In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the financial statements of G. R. Merchant Limited for the year ended 31 March 2024 which comprise the Statement of income and retained earnings, Statement of financial position 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 within the ICAEW's regulations and guidance at http://www.icaew.com/en/membership/regulations-standards-and-guidance. |
This report is made solely to the director of G. R. Merchant Limited in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter dated 19 June 2020. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the financial statements of G. R. Merchant Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the director of G. R. Merchant Limited in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than G. R. Merchant Limited and its director for our work or for this report. |
It is your duty to ensure that G. R. Merchant 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 profit of G. R. Merchant Limited. You consider that G. R. Merchant 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 G. R. Merchant 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. |
Bank House |
Broad Street |
Spalding |
Lincolnshire |
PE11 1TB |
G. R. Merchant Limited (Registered number: 05667107) |
Statement of Financial Position |
31 March 2024 |
2024 | 2023 |
Notes | £ | £ | £ | £ |
Fixed assets |
Tangible assets | 5 |
Current assets |
Debtors | 6 |
Cash at bank and in hand |
Creditors |
Amounts falling due within one year | 7 |
Net current assets |
Total assets less current liabilities |
Provisions for liabilities |
Net assets |
Capital and reserves |
Called up share capital | 9 |
Capital redemption reserve |
Retained earnings |
Shareholders' funds |
The director acknowledges her responsibilities for: |
(a) | ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and |
(b) | preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of each financial year and of its profit or loss for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company. |
G. R. Merchant Limited (Registered number: 05667107) |
Statement of Financial Position - continued |
31 March 2024 |
In accordance with Section 444 of the Companies Act 2006, the Statement of income and retained earnings has not been delivered. |
The financial statements were approved by the director and authorised for issue on |
G. R. Merchant Limited (Registered number: 05667107) |
Notes to the Financial Statements |
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 |
1. | Statutory information |
G. R. Merchant Limited is a |
The presentation currency of the financial statements is the Pound Sterling (£). |
2. | Statement of compliance |
3. | Accounting policies |
Basis of preparing the financial statements |
Turnover |
Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes. |
Tangible fixed assets |
Tangible assets are initially recorded at cost, and subsequently stated at cost less any accumulated depreciation and impairment losses. Any tangible assets carried at revalued amounts are recorded at the fair value at the date of revaluation less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses. |
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life. |
Equipment - 33% ,20% and 10% on reducing balance |
Taxation |
Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Statement of Income and Retained Earnings, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity. |
Current or deferred taxation assets and liabilities are not discounted. |
Current tax is recognised at the amount of tax payable using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the statement of financial position date. |
Deferred tax |
Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the statement of financial position date. |
Timing differences arise from the inclusion of income and expenses in tax assessments in periods different from those in which they are recognised in financial statements. Deferred tax is measured using tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the year end and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference. |
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. |
G. R. Merchant Limited (Registered number: 05667107) |
Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 |
3. | Accounting policies - continued |
Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits |
The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the company's pension scheme are charged to profit or loss in the period to which they relate. |
Provisions |
Provisions are recognised when the entity has an obligation at the reporting date as a result of a past event, it is probable that the entity will be required to transfer economic benefits in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be estimated reliably. Provisions are recognised as a liability in the statement of financial position and the amount of the provision as an expense. |
Provisions are initially measured at the best estimate of the amount required to settle the obligation at the reporting date and subsequently reviewed at each reporting date and adjusted to reflect the current best estimate of the amount that would be required to settle the obligation. Any adjustments to the amounts previously recognised are recognised in profit or loss unless the provision was originally recognised as part of the cost of an asset. When a provision is measured at the present value of the amount expected to be required to settle the obligation, the unwinding of the discount is recognised as a finance cost in profit or loss in the period it arises. |
Financial instruments |
Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the entity after deducting all of its financial liabilities. |
Where the contractual obligations of financial instruments (including share capital) are equivalent to a similar debt instrument, those financial instruments are classed as financial liabilities. Financial liabilities are presented as such in the balance sheet. Finance costs and gains or losses relating to financial liabilities are included in the profit and loss account. Finance costs are calculated so as to produce a constant rate of return on the outstanding liability. |
Where the contractual terms of share capital do not have any terms meeting the definition of a financial liability then this is classed as an equity instrument. Dividends and distributions relating to equity instruments are debited direct to equity. |
4. | Employees and directors |
The average number of employees during the year was |
5. | Tangible fixed assets |
Equipment |
£ |
Cost |
At 1 April 2023 |
and 31 March 2024 |
Depreciation |
At 1 April 2023 |
Charge for year |
At 31 March 2024 |
Net book value |
At 31 March 2024 |
At 31 March 2023 |
G. R. Merchant Limited (Registered number: 05667107) |
Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 |
6. | Debtors: amounts falling due within one year |
2024 | 2023 |
£ | £ |
Trade debtors |
Prepayments |
7. | Creditors: amounts falling due within one year |
2024 | 2023 |
£ | £ |
Trade creditors |
Corporation tax |
Social security and other taxes |
VAT |
Directors' current accounts |
Accruals and deferred income |
8. | Leasing agreements |
Minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases fall due as follows: |
2024 | 2023 |
£ | £ |
Within one year |
Between one and five years |
In more than five years |
9. | Called up share capital |
Allotted, issued and fully paid: |
Number: | Class: | Nominal | 2024 | 2023 |
value: | £ | £ |
Ordinary shares | £1 | 100 | 100 |