Registration number:
Gourmet & Company Limited
for the
Year Ended 30 September 2024
Gourmet & Company Limited
Contents
Company Information |
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Statement of Directors' Responsibilities |
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Independent Auditor's Report |
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Income Statement |
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Statement of Financial Position |
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Notes to the Financial Statements |
Gourmet & Company Limited
Company Information
Directors |
D M Challis D A MacFarlane F J MacFarlane N K Challis |
Registered office |
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Auditors |
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Gourmet & Company Limited
Statement of Directors' Responsibilities
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for preparing the Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
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). 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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select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently; |
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make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent; |
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prepare the financial statements 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 financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006 and are in accordance with FRS 105 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable to the Micro-entities Regime. 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.
Gourmet & Company Limited
Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Gourmet & Company Limited
Opinion
We have audited the financial statements of Gourmet & Company Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 30 September 2024, which comprise the Income Statement, Statement of Financial Position, and Notes to the Financial Statements, 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 (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) including FRS 105 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable to the Micro-entities Regime'.
In our opinion the financial statements are in all material respects:
• | properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice, specifically FRS 105; and |
• | have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 as applied to micro-entities. |
Therefore under section 495 (3A) of the Companies Act 2006, in our opinion the financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 30 September 2024 and of its profit for the year then ended.
Basis for 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 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.
Other matters - application of a true and fair view
The financial statements have been prepared under the micro-entities regime which does not require the directors or the auditor to consider the inclusion of any disclosures necessary to give a true and fair view where these go beyond the minimum disclosures required by the Companies Act 2006 as applied to micro-entities.
Conclusions relating to going concern
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the director's 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 original financial statements were 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.
Gourmet & Company Limited
Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Gourmet & Company Limited
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. 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.
In connection with our audit of the financial statements, 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 audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. 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 matter prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
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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 |
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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 our 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 where 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 micro-entities regime and take advantage of the micro-entities' exemptions in preparing the directors’ report and from the requirement to prepare a strategic report. |
Responsibilities of directors
As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors' Responsibilities set out on page 3, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements which as the company qualifies for the micro-companies regime and complies with the minimum requirements of the Act in relation to its financial statements is presumed, until the contrary is proved, to give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities and financial position of the company at the end of its financial year and of its profit or loss for such a year 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.
Gourmet & Company Limited
Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Gourmet & Company Limited
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 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:
Based on our understanding of the company and the industry in which it operates, we determined that the principal risks of non-compliance with laws and regulations related to the reporting framework (FRS 105 and the Companies Act 2006) and UK corporate taxation laws. These risks were communicated to our audit team and we remained alert to any indications of non-compliance throughout our audit.
We understood how the company is complying with relevant legislation by making enquiries of management and conducting a review of board minutes. We also considered the results of our audit procedures and to what extent these corroborate this understanding and assessed the susceptibility of the company’s financial statements to material misstatement. This included consideration of how fraud might occur and valuation of management’s incentives and opportunities for fraudulent manipulation of the financial statements.
We designed our audit procedures to identify any non-compliance with laws and regulations. Such procedures included, but were not limited to, inspection of any regulatory or legal correspondence; challenging assumptions and judgements made by management; identifying and testing journal entries with a focus on large or unusual transactions as determined based on our understanding of the business; and identifying and assessing the effectiveness of controls in place to prevent and detect fraud.
Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there remains a risk that a material misstatement may not have been detected, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. We are not responsible for preventing non-compliance with laws and regulations and cannot be expected to detect all instances of non-compliance.
A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.
Gourmet & Company Limited
Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Gourmet & Company Limited
The primary responsibility for detection and prevention of fraud rests with those responsible for governance and management. The further removed non-compliance of laws and regulations is from the events reflected in the financial statements, the less likely the auditor will become aware of it.
The risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment, collusion, omission, misrepresentation or forgery.
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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For and on behalf of
130 Shaftesbury Avenue
London
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Gourmet & Company Limited
Income Statement for the Year Ended 30 September 2024
2024 |
2023 |
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Turnover |
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Staff costs |
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Depreciation and other amounts written off assets |
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General administrative expenses |
(81,391) |
(83,185) |
Other gains/(losses) |
14,325 |
33,144 |
Dividend income |
164,149 |
139,122 |
Other interest receivable and similar income |
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Profit before tax |
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Tax on profit |
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Profit for the year |
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Gourmet & Company Limited
Statement of Financial Position as at 30 September 2024
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2023 |
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Fixed assets |
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Current assets |
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Prepayments and accrued income |
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Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year |
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Net current assets |
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Total assets less current liabilities |
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Accruals and deferred income |
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Capital and reserves |
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General information |
The company is a private company limited by share capital, incorporated in England and Wales.
The address of its registered office is:
Basis of preparation |
These financial statements were prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 105 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable to the Micro-entities Regime' and the Companies Act 2006.
Staff numbers |
The average number of persons employed by the company (including directors) during the year, was
Gourmet & Company Limited
Statement of Financial Position as at 30 September 2024
Notes to the Financial Statements
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the micro-entity provisions of the Companies Act 2006 and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
Company registration number: 00370256
Approved and authorised by the
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