REGISTERED NUMBER: |
Financial Statements |
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 |
for |
ABOYNE-CLYDE RUBBER ESTATES OF |
CEYLON LIMITED |
REGISTERED NUMBER: |
Financial Statements |
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 |
for |
ABOYNE-CLYDE RUBBER ESTATES OF |
CEYLON LIMITED |
ABOYNE-CLYDE RUBBER ESTATES OF |
CEYLON LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 00124707) |
Contents of the Financial Statements |
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 |
Page |
Company Information | 1 |
Balance Sheet | 2 |
Notes to the Financial Statements | 4 |
ABOYNE-CLYDE RUBBER ESTATES OF |
CEYLON LIMITED |
Company Information |
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 |
DIRECTORS: |
SECRETARY: |
REGISTERED OFFICE: |
REGISTERED NUMBER: |
ACCOUNTANTS: |
Chartered Accountants |
Lloyds Bank Chambers |
Hustlergate |
Bradford |
BD1 1UQ |
ABOYNE-CLYDE RUBBER ESTATES OF |
CEYLON LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 00124707) |
Balance Sheet |
31 March 2024 |
2024 | 2023 |
Notes | £ | £ | £ | £ |
FIXED ASSETS |
Investments | 4 |
CURRENT ASSETS |
Debtors | 5 |
Cash at bank |
CREDITORS |
Amounts falling due within one year | 6 |
NET CURRENT ASSETS/(LIABILITIES) | ( |
) |
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES |
PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES | 7 |
NET ASSETS |
CAPITAL AND RESERVES |
Called up share capital | 8 |
Retained earnings | 9 |
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS |
The directors acknowledge their 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. |
ABOYNE-CLYDE RUBBER ESTATES OF |
CEYLON LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 00124707) |
Balance Sheet - continued |
31 March 2024 |
The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on |
ABOYNE-CLYDE RUBBER ESTATES OF |
CEYLON LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 00124707) |
Notes to the Financial Statements |
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 |
1. | STATUTORY INFORMATION |
Aboyne-Clyde Rubber Estates of Ceylon Limited is a |
2. | ACCOUNTING POLICIES |
Basis of preparing the financial statements |
Investment income |
Investment income comprises interest, dividends and other distributions on investments, together with profits less losses on disposal of investments. Dividends are recognised as income when the right to receipt has been established. Interest is accounted for on the accruals basis. |
Taxation |
Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Income Statement, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity. |
Current and 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 balance sheet date. |
Deferred tax |
Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the balance sheet 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 and include unrealised gains and losses on the revaluation of investments in equity and preference shares. 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. |
Investments |
Investments are stated at fair value. In the case of investments traded on a recognised stock exchange fair value is determined by reference to quoted bid prices. Unquoted investments are valued by the directors by reference to all available evidence including recent transactions, events and company statements relating to the investments concerned. |
Changes in the valuation of investments are taken to profit and loss in the income statement. |
ABOYNE-CLYDE RUBBER ESTATES OF |
CEYLON LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 00124707) |
Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 |
2. | ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued |
Cumulative preference dividends |
It is the company's policy not to accrue for unpaid cumulative preference dividends, because it is considered that there is no enforceable contractual right for such dividends to be paid. |
No dividends have been paid on the preference shares since 31 December 1923 and the directors have no present intention to resume dividend payments. On a winding up there is no explicit right by shareholders to payment of undeclared dividends. Arrears of outstanding preference dividends are estimated by the directors to be in the region of £1.5m and any future dividend payments would be first applied to the payments of these arrears. |
In the circumstances the directors consider the above policy to be the most appropriate basis on which to prepare the financial statements. |
3. | EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS |
The average number of employees during the year was NIL (2023 - NIL). |
4. | FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS |
Other |
investments |
£ |
COST OR VALUATION |
At 1 April 2023 |
Additions |
Disposals | ( |
) |
Revaluations |
At 31 March 2024 |
NET BOOK VALUE |
At 31 March 2024 |
At 31 March 2023 |
All investments are listed investments. |
If fixed asset investments had not been revalued they would have been included at historical cost of £1,227,780 (2023 - £1,730,924). |
5. | DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR |
2024 | 2023 |
£ | £ |
Investment debtors |
Accrued income |
ABOYNE-CLYDE RUBBER ESTATES OF |
CEYLON LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 00124707) |
Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 |
6. | CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR |
2024 | 2023 |
£ | £ |
Corporation tax |
Other creditors |
Accruals |
7. | PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES |
2024 | 2023 |
£ | £ |
Deferred tax |
Realised capital losses | - | (4,458 | ) |
Excess management expenses | - | (6,825 | ) |
Unrealised investment revaluation gains | 82,594 | 93,011 |
82,594 | 81,728 |
Deferred |
tax |
£ |
Balance at 1 April 2023 |
Charge to Income Statement during year |
Balance at 31 March 2024 |
8. | CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL |
Allotted, issued and fully paid: |
Number: | Class: | Nominal | 2024 | 2023 |
value: | £ | £ |
Ordinary | 0.10 | 25,000 | 25,000 |
7.5% preference | 1 | 200,000 | 200,000 |
225,000 | 225,000 |
Class rights of shares: |
1. Preference shares are participating cumulative preference shares with the right to a further dividend at the rate of 1/4% for every 5% dividend in excess of 25% on ordinary shares. |
2. Preference shares rank in priority to ordinary shares as regards a return of capital. |
Upon a poll the voting rights of members are: |
1 vote for each preference share |
1 vote for each two ordinary shares |
The preference shares are regarded as equity because under the company's articles of association the payment of preference dividends is at the discretion of the directors. |
ABOYNE-CLYDE RUBBER ESTATES OF |
CEYLON LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 00124707) |
Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
for the Year Ended 31 March 2024 |
9. | RESERVES |
Retained |
earnings |
£ |
At 1 April 2023 |
Profit for the year |
At 31 March 2024 |
Accumulated reserves of £1,500,000 accrue to preference shareholders in the event that unpaid cumulative dividends were to be paid. |