Company registration number 00466352 (England and Wales)
ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS' ASSOCIATION LIMITED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
PAGES FOR FILING WITH REGISTRAR
ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS' ASSOCIATION LIMITED
CONTENTS
Page
Balance sheet
1
Notes to the financial statements
2 - 9
ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS' ASSOCIATION LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT
31 DECEMBER 2024
31 December 2024
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2024
2023
Notes
£
£
£
£
Fixed assets
Intangible assets
4
246,773
274,945
Tangible assets
5
5,606
5,093
252,379
280,038
Current assets
Stocks
7
14,952
18,403
Debtors
8
280,388
309,280
Investments
9
466,213
451,657
Cash at bank and in hand
272,018
145,113
1,033,571
924,453
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
10
(229,169)
(220,575)
Net current assets
804,402
703,878
Total assets less current liabilities
1,056,781
983,916
Provisions for liabilities
11
(32,076)
(38,155)
Net assets
1,024,705
945,761
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital
-
0
-
0
Profit and loss reserves
1,024,705
945,761
Total equity
1,024,705
945,761

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

The directors of the company have elected not to include a copy of the profit and loss account within the financial statements.true

The financial statements were approved by the board of directors and authorised for issue on 6 March 2025 and are signed on its behalf by:
C Ashworth
Director
Company registration number 00466352 (England and Wales)
ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS' ASSOCIATION LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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1
Accounting policies
Company information

Electrical Distributors' Association Limited is a private company limited by guarantee incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is Rotherwick House, 3 Thomas More Street, St Katharine's and Wapping, London, United Kingdom, E1W 1YZ.

1.1
Accounting convention

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” (“FRS 102”) and the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 as applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. The disclosure requirements of section 1A of FRS 102 have been applied other than where additional disclosure is required to show a true and fair view.

The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.

The company has taken advantage of the exemption under section 399 of the Companies Act 2006 not to prepare consolidated accounts, on the basis that the group of which this is the parent qualifies as a small group. The financial statements present information about the company as an individual entity and not about its group.

1.2
Going concern

At the time of approving the financial statements, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus the directors continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.

1.3
Turnover

Turnover represents subscriptions due for the year and income from sale of training modules, together with income from other activities provided during the year exclusive of VAT.

 

Revenue is recognised in the period to which the subscription or the event relates. Revenue from sale of training modules is recognised in the period in which the service is provided. Other income is recognised when the company has a right to this income, which is usually on receipt.

1.4
Research and development expenditure

Research expenditure is written off against profits in the year in which it is incurred. Identifiable development expenditure is capitalised to the extent that the technical, commercial and financial feasibility can be demonstrated.

1.5
Intangible fixed assets other than goodwill

Intangible assets acquired separately from a business are recognised at cost and are subsequently measured at cost less accumulated amortisation and accumulated impairment losses.

ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS' ASSOCIATION LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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Intangible assets are split in to two categories:

 

Intellectual property relating to product knowledge modules. This is defined as having a finite useful life and the cost is amortised on a straight line basis over the estimated useful life of 12 years.

 

Development costs relating to the creation of digitised learning modules. These are defined as having a finite useful life and the costs are amortised on a straight line basis over the estimated useful life of 10 years.

 

Intangible assets are stated at cost less amortisation and are reviewed for impairment whenever there is an indication that the carrying value may be impaired.

Amortisation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of assets less their residual values over their useful lives on the following bases:

Development costs
Straight line over 10-12 years
1.6
Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost or valuation, net of depreciation and any impairment losses.

Depreciation is recognised so as to write off the cost or valuation of assets less their residual values over their useful lives on the following bases:

Fixtures, fittings & equipment
10% - 33% per annum straight line

The gain or loss arising on the disposal of an asset is determined as the difference between the sale proceeds and the carrying value of the asset, and is credited or charged to profit or loss.

1.7
Impairment of fixed assets

At each reporting period end date, the company reviews the carrying amounts of its tangible and intangible assets to determine whether there is any indication that those assets have suffered an impairment loss. If any such indication exists, the recoverable amount of the asset is estimated in order to determine the extent of the impairment loss (if any). Where it is not possible to estimate the recoverable amount of an individual asset, the company estimates the recoverable amount of the cash-generating unit to which the asset belongs.

1.8
Stocks

Stocks are stated at the lower of cost and estimated selling price less costs to complete and sell.

At each reporting date, an assessment is made for impairment. Any excess of the carrying amount of stocks over its estimated selling price less costs to complete and sell is recognised as an impairment loss in profit or loss. Reversals of impairment losses are also recognised in profit or loss.

1.9
Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short-term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less, and bank overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings in current liabilities.

ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS' ASSOCIATION LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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1.10
Financial instruments

The company has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 ‘Basic Financial Instruments’ and Section 12 ‘Other Financial Instruments Issues’ of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.

 

Financial instruments are recognised in the company's balance sheet when the company becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.

 

Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

Basic financial assets

Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.

Classification of financial liabilities

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 company after deducting all of its liabilities.

Basic financial liabilities

Basic financial liabilities, including creditors, bank loans, loans from fellow group companies and preference shares that are classified as debt, are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.

 

Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method.

 

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

1.11
Taxation

The tax expense represents the sum of the tax currently payable and deferred tax.

Current tax

The tax currently payable is based on taxable profit for the year. Taxable profit differs from net profit as reported in the profit and loss account because it excludes items of income or expense that are taxable or deductible in other years and it further excludes items that are never taxable or deductible. The company’s liability for current tax is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting end date.

ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS' ASSOCIATION LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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Deferred tax

Deferred tax liabilities are generally recognised for all timing differences and deferred tax assets are recognised to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits. Such assets and liabilities are not recognised if the timing difference arises from goodwill or from the initial recognition of other assets and liabilities in a transaction that affects neither the tax profit nor the accounting profit.

 

The carrying amount of deferred tax assets is reviewed at each reporting end date and reduced to the extent that it is no longer probable that sufficient taxable profits will be available to allow all or part of the asset to be recovered. Deferred tax is calculated at the tax rates that are expected to apply in the period when the liability is settled or the asset is realised. Deferred tax is charged or credited in the profit and loss account, except when it relates to items charged or credited directly to equity, in which case the deferred tax is also dealt with in equity. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset when the company has a legally enforceable right to offset current tax assets and liabilities and the deferred tax assets and liabilities relate to taxes levied by the same tax authority.

1.12
Employee benefits

The costs of short-term employee benefits are recognised as a liability and an expense, unless those costs are required to be recognised as part of the cost of stock or fixed assets.

 

The cost of any unused holiday entitlement is recognised in the period in which the employee’s services are received.

 

Termination benefits are recognised immediately as an expense when the company is demonstrably committed to terminate the employment of an employee or to provide termination benefits.

1.13
Retirement benefits

Payments to defined contribution retirement benefit schemes are charged as an expense as they fall due.

1.14
Leases

Rentals payable under operating leases, including any lease incentives received, are charged to profit or loss on a straight line basis over the term of the relevant lease except where another more systematic basis is more representative of the time pattern in which economic benefits from the leases asset are consumed.

1.15
Foreign exchange

Transactions in currencies other than pounds sterling are recorded at the rates of exchange prevailing at the dates of the transactions. At each reporting end date, monetary assets and liabilities that are denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated at the rates prevailing on the reporting end date. Gains and losses arising on translation in the period are included in profit or loss.

1.16

Current asset investments

Current asset investments include short term liquid investments with maturities of more than three months.

2
Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty

In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the directors are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

 

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.

ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS' ASSOCIATION LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
2
Judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty
(Continued)
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Key sources of estimation uncertainty

The estimates and assumptions which have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amount of assets and liabilities are as follows.

Useful life for amortisation of intangible assets

Determining the amortisation rate for intangible fixed assets requires an estimation of the useful life of the asset.

 

Management use all information available to them to choose a reasonable useful life, and review the actual useful life annually.

3
Employees

The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:

2024
2023
Number
Number
Total
18
18

The average monthly number of persons (excluding directors) employed by the company during the year was 8 (2023 - 8).

4
Intangible fixed assets
Other
£
Cost
At 1 January 2024
370,840
Additions
5,625
At 31 December 2024
376,465
Amortisation and impairment
At 1 January 2024
95,895
Amortisation charged for the year
33,797
At 31 December 2024
129,692
Carrying amount
At 31 December 2024
246,773
At 31 December 2023
274,945
ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS' ASSOCIATION LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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5
Tangible fixed assets
Plant and machinery etc
£
Cost
At 1 January 2024
25,092
Additions
4,405
At 31 December 2024
29,497
Depreciation and impairment
At 1 January 2024
19,999
Depreciation charged in the year
3,892
At 31 December 2024
23,891
Carrying amount
At 31 December 2024
5,606
At 31 December 2023
5,093
6
Subsidiaries

Details of the company's subsidiaries at 31 December 2024 are as follows:

Name of undertaking
Address
Class of
% Held
shares held
Direct
EDA Data Services Limited
1
Guarantee
100.00
ETIM UK and Ireland Limited
1
Guarantee
50.00
1
Rotherwick House, 3 Thomas More Street, St Katharine's and Wapping, London, United Kingdom,  E1W 1YZ
The aggregate capital and reserves and the result for the year of the subsidiaries noted above was as follows:
Name of undertaking
Capital and Reserves
Profit/(Loss)
£
£
EDA Data Services Limited
1,715
(2,953)
0
ETIM UK and Ireland Limited
-
-

Both companies are limited by guarantee.

7
Stocks
2024
2023
£
£
Stocks
14,952
18,403
ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS' ASSOCIATION LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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8
Debtors
2024
2023
Amounts falling due within one year:
£
£
Trade debtors
87,437
139,084
Corporation tax recoverable
-
0
7,859
Amounts due from group companies
181,122
147,527
Prepayments and accrued income
11,829
14,810
280,388
309,280
9
Current asset investments
2024
2023
£
£
Other investments
466,213
451,657

Current assets investments are made up of the funds held in a 95 day liquidity manager account.

10
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
2024
2023
£
£
Trade creditors
34,402
42,666
Corporation tax
31,082
-
0
Other creditors and payroll controls
24,483
62,880
VAT
24,042
29,469
Deferred income
65,895
58,460
Accruals
48,005
27,100
227,909
220,575
11
Provisions for liabilities
2024
2023
£
£
Deferred tax liabilities
32,076
38,155
12
Audit report information

As the income statement has been omitted from the filing copy of the financial statements, the following information in relation to the audit report on the statutory financial statements is provided in accordance with s444(5B) of the Companies Act 2006:

The auditor's report was unqualified.

ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTORS' ASSOCIATION LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
12
Audit report information
(Continued)
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Senior Statutory Auditor:
Mark Gregory ACA
Statutory Auditor:
Fiander Tovell Limited
Date of audit report:
25 March 2025
13
Related party transactions

The company has taken advantage of the provisions of FRS 102 section 33.1A allowing transactions between wholly owned group entities not to be disclosed.

 

During the year Electrical Distributors' Association Limited traded with ETIM UK and Ireland Limited, a 50% owned subsidiary. Electrical Distributors' Association Limited made sales of £1,102 (2023: £1,913), and purchases of £15,409 (2023: £15,948). No amounts were outstanding at the year end in respect of purchases, however £1,102 (2023: £nil) was outstanding in relation to sales.

 

At the year end, Electrical Distributors' Association Limited was owed a balance of £26,909 (2023: £773) from ETIM UK and Ireland Limited.

14
Members' liability

The company is limited by guarantee, not having a share capital and consequently the liability of members is limited, subject to an undertaking by each member to contribute to the net assets or liabilities of the company on winding up such amounts as may be required not exceeding £100.

15
Controlling party

The company is limited by guarantee and is controlled by its Board of Management.

 

The Board of Management appoints a director to be responsible for the day to day affairs of the Association.

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