Company registration number 00539349 (England and Wales)
K. ENGINEERING COMPANY (WEST BROMWICH) LIMITED
UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 OCTOBER 2024
PAGES FOR FILING WITH REGISTRAR
K. ENGINEERING COMPANY (WEST BROMWICH) LIMITED
CONTENTS
Page
Balance sheet
1 - 2
Notes to the financial statements
3 - 11
K. ENGINEERING COMPANY (WEST BROMWICH) LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT
31 OCTOBER 2024
31 October 2024
- 1 -
2024
2023
Notes
£
£
£
£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
3
3,609,036
3,564,328
Investments
4
22,277
75
3,631,313
3,564,403
Current assets
Stocks
750,365
746,938
Debtors
646,488
571,407
Cash at bank and in hand
653,662
724,806
2,050,515
2,043,151
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
(618,757)
(511,633)
Net current assets
1,431,758
1,531,518
Total assets less current liabilities
5,063,071
5,095,921
Provisions for liabilities
(437,000)
(420,000)
Net assets
4,626,071
4,675,921
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital
7
134
100
Share premium account
767
-
0
Revaluation reserve
6
1,378,335
1,378,335
Profit and loss reserves
3,246,835
3,297,486
Total equity
4,626,071
4,675,921
K. ENGINEERING COMPANY (WEST BROMWICH) LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET (CONTINUED)
AS AT
31 OCTOBER 2024
31 October 2024
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For the financial year ended 31 October 2024 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year in question in accordance with section 476.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of financial statements.

These 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, all of the members of the company have consented to the preparation of abridged financial statements pursuant to paragraph 1A of Schedule 1 to the Small Companies and Groups (Accounts and Directors’ Report) Regulations (SI 2008/409)(b).

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 27 June 2025 and are signed on its behalf by:
Mr I W Harris
Director
Company registration number 00539349 (England and Wales)
K. ENGINEERING COMPANY (WEST BROMWICH) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 OCTOBER 2024
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1
Accounting policies
Company information

K. Engineering Company (West Bromwich) Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is Westgate, Aldridge, Walsall, WS9 8EX.

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, modified to include the revaluation of freehold properties and to include investment properties and certain financial instruments at fair value. 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
Turnover

Turnover is recognised at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable for goods and services provided in the normal course of business, and is shown net of VAT and other sales related taxes. The fair value of consideration takes into account trade discounts, settlement discounts and volume rebates.

 

Revenue from the sale of goods is recognised when the significant risks and rewards of ownership of the goods have passed to the buyer (usually on dispatch of the goods), the amount of revenue can be measured reliably, it is probable that the economic benefits associated with the transaction will flow to the entity and the costs incurred or to be incurred in respect of the transaction can be measured reliably.

1.3
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:

Land and buildings Freehold
Not depreciated
Plant and machinery
15% p.a. reducing balance basis
Fixtures, fittings & equipment
10% p.a. reducing balance basis and
33 1/3% p.a. straight line basis
Motor vehicles
25% p.a. reducing balance basis

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.

K. ENGINEERING COMPANY (WEST BROMWICH) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 OCTOBER 2024
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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The company directors have concluded that the revaluation model in respect of land and buildings gives a truer reflection of the financial position of the company.

 

Properties whose fair value can be measured reliably are held under the revaluation model and are carried at a revalued amount, being their fair value at the date of valuation less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses. The fair value of the land and buildings is usually considered to be their market value.

 

Revaluation gains and losses are recognised in other comprehensive income and accumulated in equity, except to the extent that a revaluation gain reverses a revaluation loss previously recognised in profit or loss or a revaluation loss exceeds the accumulated revaluation gains recognised in equity; such gains and losses are recognised in profit or loss.

1.4
Fixed asset investments

Interests in subsidiaries, associates and jointly controlled entities are initially measured at cost and subsequently measured at cost less any accumulated impairment losses. The investments are assessed for impairment at each reporting date and any impairment losses or reversals of impairment losses are recognised immediately in profit or loss.

A subsidiary is an entity controlled by the company. Control is the power to govern the financial and operating policies of the entity so as to obtain benefits from its activities.

An associate is an entity, being neither a subsidiary nor a joint venture, in which the company holds a long-term interest and where the company has significant influence. The company considers that it has significant influence where it has the power to participate in the financial and operating decisions of the associate.

Entities in which the company has a long term interest and shares control under a contractual arrangement are classified as jointly controlled entities.

1.5
Impairment of fixed assets

At each reporting period end date, the company reviews the carrying amounts of its tangible 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.

Recoverable amount is the higher of fair value less costs to sell and value in use. In assessing value in use, the estimated future cash flows are discounted to their present value using a pre-tax discount rate that reflects current market assessments of the time value of money and the risks specific to the asset for which the estimates of future cash flows have not been adjusted.

 

If the recoverable amount of an asset (or cash-generating unit) is estimated to be less than its carrying amount, the carrying amount of the asset (or cash-generating unit) is reduced to its recoverable amount. An impairment loss is recognised immediately in profit or loss, unless the relevant asset is carried at a revalued amount, in which case the impairment loss is treated as a revaluation decrease.

Recognised impairment losses are reversed if, and only if, the reasons for the impairment loss have ceased to apply. Where an impairment loss subsequently reverses, the carrying amount of the asset (or cash-generating unit) is increased to the revised estimate of its recoverable amount, but so that the increased carrying amount does not exceed the carrying amount that would have been determined had no impairment loss been recognised for the asset (or cash-generating unit) in prior years. A reversal of an impairment loss is recognised immediately in profit or loss, unless the relevant asset is carried at a revalued amount, in which case the reversal of the impairment loss is treated as a revaluation increase.

K. ENGINEERING COMPANY (WEST BROMWICH) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 OCTOBER 2024
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
- 5 -
1.6
Stocks

Stocks are stated at the lower of cost and estimated selling price less costs to complete and sell. Cost comprises direct materials and, where applicable, direct labour costs and those overheads that have been incurred in bringing the stocks to their present location and condition.

 

Stock is valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value as follows:

 

Goods for resale - Purchase cost on a first-in, first-out basis.

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.

1.7
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.

1.8
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.

Impairment of financial assets

Financial assets, other than those held at fair value through profit and loss, are assessed for indicators of impairment at each reporting end date.

 

Financial assets are impaired where there is objective evidence that, as a result of one or more events that occurred after the initial recognition of the financial asset, the estimated future cash flows have been affected. If an asset is impaired, the impairment loss is the difference between the carrying amount and the present value of the estimated cash flows discounted at the asset’s original effective interest rate. The impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss.

 

If there is a decrease in the impairment loss arising from an event occurring after the impairment was recognised, the impairment is reversed. The reversal is such that the current carrying amount does not exceed what the carrying amount would have been, had the impairment not previously been recognised. The impairment reversal is recognised in profit or loss.

K. ENGINEERING COMPANY (WEST BROMWICH) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 OCTOBER 2024
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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Derecognition of financial assets

Financial assets are derecognised only when the contractual rights to the cash flows from the asset expire or are settled, or when the company transfers the financial asset and substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to another entity, or if some significant risks and rewards of ownership are retained but control of the asset has transferred to another party that is able to sell the asset in its entirety to an unrelated third party.

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.

Derecognition of financial liabilities

Financial liabilities are derecognised when the company’s contractual obligations expire or are discharged or cancelled.

1.9
Equity instruments

Equity instruments issued by the company are recorded at the proceeds received, net of transaction costs. Dividends payable on equity instruments are recognised as liabilities once they are no longer at the discretion of the company.

1.10
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.

K. ENGINEERING COMPANY (WEST BROMWICH) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 OCTOBER 2024
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
- 7 -
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.

1.11
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.

1.12
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.

2
Employees

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

2024
2023
Number
Number
Total
21
26
K. ENGINEERING COMPANY (WEST BROMWICH) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 OCTOBER 2024
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3
Tangible fixed assets
Total
£
Cost or valuation
At 1 November 2023
3,990,124
Additions
188,170
Disposals
(142,058)
At 31 October 2024
4,036,236
Depreciation and impairment
At 1 November 2023
425,796
Depreciation charged in the year
93,162
Eliminated in respect of disposals
(91,758)
At 31 October 2024
427,200
Carrying amount
At 31 October 2024
3,609,036
At 31 October 2023
3,564,328

Land and buildings with a carrying amount of £1,313,958 were valued by the Directors on 31 October 2024 at an open market basis to £3,295,000.

The revaluation surplus is disclosed in note 6.

The following assets are carried at valuation. If the assets were measured using the cost model, the carrying amounts would be as follows:

Fixed assets
2024
2023
£
£
Cost
1,529,665
1,529,665
Accumulated depreciation
(215,707)
(215,707)
Carrying value
1,313,958
1,313,958
K. ENGINEERING COMPANY (WEST BROMWICH) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 OCTOBER 2024
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4
Fixed asset investments
2024
2023
£
£
Investments
22,277
75

On 16 October 2024 100% of the issued share capital of Boltfast Limited was acquired by way of issuing 34 Ordinary shares of £1, with a premium of £22.55882353 per share, in exchange for 801 Ordinary shares of £1 of Boltfast Limited. K. Engineering Company (West Bromwich) Limited therefore became the ultimate parent company of Boltfast Limited.

 

On the same date K. Engineering Company (West Bromwich) Limited also acquired 15% of the issued share capital of Boltfast Limited's subsidiary Socketfast Limited, and therefore also became the ultimate parent company of Socketfast Limited.

Movements in fixed asset investments
Shares in group undertakings
Listed investments
Total
£
£
£
Cost or valuation
At 1 November 2023
-
75
75
Additions
22,202
-
22,202
At 31 October 2024
22,202
75
22,277
Carrying amount
At 31 October 2024
22,202
75
22,277
At 31 October 2023
-
75
75
5
Subsidiaries

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

Name of undertaking
Registered office
Nature of business
Class of
% Held
shares held
Direct
Indirect
Boltfast Limited
United Kingdom
Wholesale of nuts, screws, metal pressings and general engineers' supplies
Ordinary shares
100.00
-
Socketfast Limited
United Kingdom
Wholesale of socket screws
Ordinary shares
15.00
85.00
K. ENGINEERING COMPANY (WEST BROMWICH) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 OCTOBER 2024
5
Subsidiaries
(Continued)
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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)
£
£
Boltfast Limited
1,463,991
34,960
Socketfast Limited
98,037
13,869
6
Revaluation reserve
2024
2023
£
£
At the beginning and end of the year
1,378,335
1,378,335
7
Called up share capital
2024
2023
£
£
Ordinary share capital
Issued and fully paid
100 Ordinary shares of £1 each
134
100

On 16 October 2024, 34 Ordinary Shares of £1 plus a share premium of £22.55882353 each have been allotted and issued in the company pursuant to a share for share exchange.

K. ENGINEERING COMPANY (WEST BROMWICH) LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 OCTOBER 2024
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7
Related party transactions
Related Businesses
The company has taken advantage of the exemption available in FRS102 section 1A "Related party disclosures" whereby it has not disclosed transactions with any wholly owned subsidiary undertaking of the group.
Related Individuals
The following transactions took place with individual related parties during the year:
Directors' Current Accounts
Creditors include the following amounts due to the directors at the year end:
2024
2023
£
£
Mrs M C Williams
2,387
-
I S Wilkinson
45,203
35,396
I W Harris
22,822
17,199
M R Carre
339
1,503
These balances arise as a result of drawings and monies introduced during the year.
Transactions with directors
A loan to Mr D Harris, whose father is a director of the company, was repaid in full during the period (2023: £2,500).
Creditors includes a loan of £44 (2023 - £136) due to Mrs K Wilkinson, whose mother and husband are directors of the company.
All Related Party Transactions
There are no provisions against any of the amounts owing at the year end and no amounts have been written off in respect of these transactions during the year.
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