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REGISTERED NUMBER: 06988923 (England and Wales)















UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2024

FOR

ANN BLYTH & SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS LTD

ANN BLYTH & SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS LTD (REGISTERED NUMBER: 06988923)

CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
for the Year Ended 31 July 2024










Page

Company Information 1

Balance Sheet 2

Notes to the Financial Statements 4

Chartered Accountants' Report 7

ANN BLYTH & SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS LTD

COMPANY INFORMATION
for the Year Ended 31 July 2024







DIRECTORS: A Blyth
A Burney





REGISTERED OFFICE: Vantage House
3 East Terrace Business Park
Euxton Lane, Euxton
Chorley
Lancashire
PR7 6TB





REGISTERED NUMBER: 06988923 (England and Wales)





ACCOUNTANTS: Studholme-Bell Limited
Chartered Accountants
& Business Advisors
Vantage House
3 East Terrace Business Park
Euxton Lane, Euxton
Chorley
Lancashire
PR7 6TB

ANN BLYTH & SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS LTD (REGISTERED NUMBER: 06988923)

BALANCE SHEET
31 July 2024

31.7.24 31.7.23
Notes £    £    £    £   
FIXED ASSETS
Intangible assets 4 - -
Tangible assets 5 10,166 13,067
10,166 13,067

CURRENT ASSETS
Stocks 2,300 5,601
Debtors 6 28,501 18,841
Cash at bank and in hand 540,937 555,200
571,738 579,642
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 7 38,457 67,276
NET CURRENT ASSETS 533,281 512,366
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES

543,447

525,433

CREDITORS
Amounts falling due after more than one year 8 (702 ) (229 )

PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES (2,542 ) (3,267 )
NET ASSETS 540,203 521,937

CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share capital 100 100
Retained earnings 540,103 521,837
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS 540,203 521,937

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 July 2024.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 July 2024 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

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.

ANN BLYTH & SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS LTD (REGISTERED NUMBER: 06988923)

BALANCE SHEET - continued
31 July 2024


The financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

In accordance with Section 444 of the Companies Act 2006, the Income Statement has not been delivered.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 1 April 2025 and were signed on its behalf by:





A Blyth - Director


ANN BLYTH & SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS LTD (REGISTERED NUMBER: 06988923)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
for the Year Ended 31 July 2024


1. STATUTORY INFORMATION

Ann Blyth & Son Funeral Directors Ltd is a private company, limited by shares , registered in England and Wales. The company's registered number and registered office address can be found on the Company Information page.

2. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparing the financial statements
The principle accounting policies adopted in the preparation of the financial statements are set out below and have remained unchanged from the previous year and have also been consistently applied within the same accounts.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention as modified by the revaluation of certain fixed assets.

Income recognition
Income is recognised when goods have been delivered to customers such that the risks and rewards of ownership have transferred to them.

Goodwill
Goodwill is capitalised and is being amortised over its useful life of 10 years.

Tangible fixed assets
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.
Fixtures and fittings - 15% on reducing balance
Motor vehicles - 33% on reducing balance
Computer equipment - 33% on reducing balance

Stocks
Stocks have been valued at the lower of cost and estimated selling price, less costs to sell. In respect of work in progress and finished goods, cost included a relevant proportion of overheads according to the stage of manufacture/completion.

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 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 balance sheet date.

Deferred tax
Deferred taxation is provided on the liability method to take account of timing differences between the treatment of certain items for accounts purposes and their treatment for tax purposes.

Tax deferred or accelerated is accounted for in respect of all material timing differences.

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.

ANN BLYTH & SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS LTD (REGISTERED NUMBER: 06988923)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued
for the Year Ended 31 July 2024


3. EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS

The average number of employees during the year was 2 (2023 - 2 ) .

4. INTANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Goodwill
£   
COST
At 1 August 2023
and 31 July 2024 150,000
AMORTISATION
At 1 August 2023
and 31 July 2024 150,000
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 July 2024 -
At 31 July 2023 -

5. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Plant and
machinery
etc
£   
COST
At 1 August 2023 46,113
Additions 1,116
At 31 July 2024 47,229
DEPRECIATION
At 1 August 2023 33,046
Charge for year 4,017
At 31 July 2024 37,063
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 July 2024 10,166
At 31 July 2023 13,067

ANN BLYTH & SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS LTD (REGISTERED NUMBER: 06988923)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued
for the Year Ended 31 July 2024


6. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
31.7.24 31.7.23
£    £   
Trade debtors 28,501 15,341
Other debtors - 3,500
28,501 18,841

7. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
31.7.24 31.7.23
£    £   
Trade creditors 4,674 6,496
Taxation and social security 31,435 57,765
Other creditors 2,348 3,015
38,457 67,276

8. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE
YEAR
31.7.24 31.7.23
£    £   
Other creditors 702 229

9. ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY

The controlling party is Ann Blyth & Anthony Burney.

CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS' REPORT TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
ON THE UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF
ANN BLYTH & SON FUNERAL DIRECTORS LTD


The following reproduces the text of the report prepared for the directors 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 Balance Sheet. Readers are cautioned that the Income Statement and certain other primary statements and the Report of the Directors 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 Ann Blyth & Son Funeral Directors Ltd for the year ended 31 July 2024 which comprise the Income Statement, 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 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 Board of Directors of Ann Blyth & Son Funeral Directors Ltd, 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 Ann Blyth & Son Funeral Directors Ltd and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of Ann Blyth & Son Funeral Directors Ltd, as a body, 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 Ann Blyth & Son Funeral Directors Ltd and its Board of Directors, as a body, for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that Ann Blyth & Son Funeral Directors Ltd 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 Ann Blyth & Son Funeral Directors Ltd. You consider that Ann Blyth & Son Funeral Directors Ltd 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 Ann Blyth & Son Funeral Directors Ltd. 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.






Studholme-Bell Limited
Chartered Accountants
& Business Advisors
Vantage House
3 East Terrace Business Park
Euxton Lane, Euxton
Chorley
Lancashire
PR7 6TB


1 April 2025