for the financial year ended |
Hermes Investment Holdings Limited |
DIRECTORS' REPORT |
for the financial year ended 30 April 2024 |
The directors present their report and the audited financial statements for the financial year ended 30 April 2024. |
Directors |
The directors who served during the financial year are as follows: |
Mr Hei Kan Lou |
Miss Wing Ting May Ho |
In accordance with the Constitution, the directors retire by rotation and, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. |
Political Contributions |
Statement of Directors' Responsibilities |
Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law) including FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland Section 1A (Small Entities). Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements 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 financial statements, the directors are required to:
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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 financial statements 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. |
Each persons who are directors at the date of approval of this report confirms that: In so far as the directors are aware: ■there is no relevant audit information (information needed by the company's auditor in connection with preparing the auditor's report) of which the company's auditor is unaware, and ■the directors have taken all the steps that they ought to have taken to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditor is aware of that information. |
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Auditors |
The auditors, DNTCA Limited, (Chartered Accountants) have indicated their willingness to continue in office in accordance with the provisions of Section 485 of the Companies Act 2006. |
Special provisions relating to small companies |
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to small companies within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006. |
On behalf of the board |
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Director |
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Director |
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT |
to the Shareholders of Hermes Investment Holdings Limited |
Report on the audit of the financial statements |
Opinion |
In our opinion the financial statements: ■give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 30 April 2024 and of its profit for the financial year then ended; ■have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and ■have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006. |
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Basis for 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 the date 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 |
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. |
Opinion 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 |
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion: |
■ | adequate accounting records have not been kept; 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' exemption in preparing the Directors' Report. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Responsibilities of directors for the financial statements |
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 has 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 detailed below: |
Our approach to identifying and assessing the risks of material misstatement in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non compliance with laws and regulations, was as follows: ■ The engagement partner ensured that the engagement team collectively had the appropriate competence, capabilities and skills to identify or recognise non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations; ■ We identified the laws and regulations applicable to the company through discussions with directors and other management, ■ We focused on specific laws and regulations which we considered may have a direct material effect on the financial statements or the operations of the company, To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we: ■ Performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships; ■ Investigated the rationale behind significant or unusual transactions. ■ Tested journal entries to identify unusual transactions; and ■ Assessed whether judgements and assumptions made in determining the accounting estimates were indicative of potential bias. In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to: ■ Agreeing financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation; ■ Reading the minutes of meetings of those charged with governance; ■ Enquiring of management as to actual and potential litigation and claims; ■ Reviewing correspondence with HMRC, Companies House and the companys legal advisors There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws and regulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-compliance. Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the directors and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any. Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion. A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Councils website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditors 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. |
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Ormeau House |
91-97 Ormeau Road |
Belfast |
BT7 1SH |
Hermes Investment Holdings Limited |
APPENDIX TO THE INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT |
Further information regarding the scope of our responsibilities as auditor |
As part of an audit in accordance with ISAs (UK), we exercise professional judgement and maintain professional scepticism throughout the audit. We also: |
■ | Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
■ | Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the company's internal control. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
■ | Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by the directors. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
■ | Conclude on the appropriateness of the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our Auditor's Report to the related disclosures in the financial statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our Auditor's Report. However, future events or conditions may cause the company to cease to continue as a going concern. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
■ | Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the financial statements, including the disclosures, and whether the financial statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit. |
Hermes Investment Holdings Limited |
ABRIDGED PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT |
for the financial year ended 30 April 2024 |
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Gross profit | ||||
Administrative expenses | ( |
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Operating profit/(loss) | ( |
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Tax on profit/(loss) on ordinary activities | ( |
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Profit/(loss) for the financial year | ( |
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Total comprehensive income | 2,189 | (18,802) | ||
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Hermes Investment Holdings Limited |
Company Registration Number: |
ABRIDGED BALANCE SHEET |
as at |
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Fixed Assets |
Investments | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current Assets |
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Creditors: amounts falling due within one year | 8 | (45,016) | (2,073) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Capital and Reserves |
Called up share capital | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Equity attributable to owners of the company | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director |
Hermes Investment Holdings Limited |
NOTES TO THE ABRIDGED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS |
for the financial year ended 30 April 2024 |
1. | General Information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hermes Investment Holdings Limited is a company limited by shares incorporated and registered in England. The registered number of the company is 08703253. The registered office of the company is 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AX which is also the principal place of business of the company .The financial statements have been presented in Pound (£) which is also the functional currency of the company. |
2. | Summary of Significant Accounting Policies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The following accounting policies have been applied consistently in dealing with items which are considered material in relation to the company's financial statements. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Investments | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Investments held as fixed assets are stated at cost less provision for any permanent diminution in value. Income from other investments together with any related tax credit is recognised in the Profit and Loss Account in the financial year in which it is receivable. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Trade and other debtors are initially recognised at fair value and thereafter stated at amortised cost using the effective interest method less impairment losses for bad and doubtful debts except where the effect of discounting would be immaterial. In such cases the receivables are stated at cost less impairment losses for bad and doubtful debts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taxation and deferred taxation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the balance sheet date where transactions or events have occurred at that date that will result in an obligation to pay more tax in the future, or a right to pay less tax in the future. Timing differences are temporary differences between the company's taxable profits and its results as stated in the financial statements. Deferred tax is measured on an undiscounted basis at the tax rates that are anticipated to apply in the periods in which the timing differences are expected to reverse, based on tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the Balance Sheet date. |
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The ordinary share capital of the company is presented as equity. |
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4. | Going concern | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Directors have not identified any material uncertainties related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt about the companys ability to continue as a going concern. |
5. | Provisions Available for Audits of Small Entities | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In common with many other businesses of our size and nature, we use our auditors to prepare and submit tax returns to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and to assist with the preparation of the financial statements. |
6. | Employees | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The average monthly number of employees, including directors, during the financial year was 0, (2023 - 0). |
7. | Investments | ||
Other | Total | ||
investments | |||
Investments | £ | £ | |
Cost | |||
At 30 April 2024 | |||
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8. | Creditors | 2024 | 2023 |
Amounts falling due within one year | £ | £ | |
Trade creditors | - | ||
Taxation | - | ||
Directors' current accounts | 44,430 | 2,000 | |
Accruals | |||
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45,016 | 2,073 | ||
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9. | Share capital | 2024 | 2023 | ||
£ | £ | ||||
Description | Number of shares | Value of units | |||
Allotted, called up and fully paid | |||||
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1 | 1 | |||
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11. | Post-Balance Sheet Events | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There have been no significant events affecting the company since the financial year-end. |