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Registration number: 12575055

Phillip Bates and Co Financial Planning Limited
Annual Report and Unaudited Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Phillip Bates and Co Financial Planning Limited

Contents

Company Information | 1
Balance Sheet | 2
Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements | 3 to 6

Phillip Bates and Co Financial Planning Limited

Company Information

Directors | Mr P N Bates Mr A J Mellor

Company secretary | Mrs S L Bates

Registered office | 5 Chester Road Neston Cheshire CH64 9PA

Accountants | Phillip Bates & Co Limited 1 - 3 Chester Road Neston Cheshire CH64 9PA

Phillip Bates and Co Financial Planning Limited

(Registration number: 12575055)
Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2024

| Note | 2024 £ | 2023 £
Fixed assets |  |  |
Intangible assets | 4 | 1 | 1
Investments | 5 | 100 | 100
|  | 101 | 101
Current assets |  |  |
Cash at bank and in hand |  | 1,258 | 1,327
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year | 6 | (1) | (1)
Net current assets |  | 1,257 | 1,326
Net assets |  | 1,358 | 1,427
Capital and reserves |  |  |
Called up share capital | 7 | 100 | 100
Retained earnings |  | 1,258 | 1,327
Shareholders' funds |  | 1,358 | 1,427

For the financial year ending 31 December 2024 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

Directors' responsibilities:

• | The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476; and
• | The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime and FRS 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard Applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland’.

Approved and authorised by the Board on 27 January 2025 and signed on its behalf by:

......................................... Mr P N Bates Director
......................................... Mr A J Mellor Director

Phillip Bates and Co Financial Planning Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

1 | General information

The company is a private company limited by share capital, incorporated in England & Wales.

The address of its registered office is:
5 Chester Road
Neston
Cheshire
CH64 9PA
England

These financial statements were authorised for issue by the Board on 27 January 2025.

2 | Accounting policies

Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates

The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.

Statement of compliance

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 Section 1A smaller entities - 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006 (as applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime).

Basis of preparation

These financial statements have been prepared using the historical cost convention except that as disclosed in the accounting policies certain items are shown at fair value.

Business combinations

Business combinations are accounted for using the purchase method. The consideration for each acquisition is measured at the aggregate of the fair values at acquisition date of assets given, liabilities incurred or assumed, and equity instruments issued by the group in exchange for control of the acquired, plus any costs directly attributable to the business combination. When a business combination agreement provides for an adjustment to the cost of the combination contingent on future events, the group includes the estimated amount of that adjustment in the cost of the combination at the acquisition date if the adjustment is probable and can be measured reliably.

Goodwill

Goodwill is amortised over its useful life, which shall not exceed five years if a reliable estimate of the useful life cannot be made.

Amortisation

Amortisation is provided on intangible assets so as to write off the cost, less any estimated residual value, over their useful life as follows:

Asset class | Amortisation method and rate
Goodwill | Straight line over 10 years

Phillip Bates and Co Financial Planning Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Investments

Investments in equity shares which are publicly traded or where the fair value can be measured reliably are initially measured at fair value, with changes in fair value recognised in profit or loss. Investments in equity shares which are not publicly traded and where fair value cannot be measured reliably are measured at cost less impairment.
Interest income on debt securities, where applicable, is recognised in income using the effective interest method. Dividends on equity securities are recognised in income when receivable.

Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and call deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.

Trade creditors

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Accounts payable are classified as current liabilities if the company does not have an unconditional right, at the end of the reporting period, to defer settlement of the creditor for at least twelve months after the reporting date. If there is an unconditional right to defer settlement for at least twelve months after the reporting date, they are presented as non-current liabilities.
Trade creditors are recognised initially at the transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Share capital

Ordinary shares are classified as equity. Equity instruments are measured at the fair value of the cash or other resources received or receivable, net of the direct costs of issuing the equity instruments. If payment is deferred and the time value of money is material, the initial measurement is on a present value basis.

Dividends

Dividend distribution to the company’s shareholders is recognised as a liability in the financial statements in the reporting period in which the dividends are declared.

3 | Staff numbers

The average number of persons employed by the company (including directors) during the year, was 2 (2023 - 2).

Phillip Bates and Co Financial Planning Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

4 | Intangible assets

| Goodwill £ | Total £
Cost or valuation
At 1 January 2024 | 1 | 1
At 31 December 2024 | 1 | 1
Amortisation
At 31 December 2024 | - | -
Carrying amount
At 31 December 2024 | 1 | 1
At 31 December 2023 | 1 | 1

5 | Investments

| 2024 £ | 2023 £
Investments in subsidiaries | 100 | 100

Subsidiaries | £
Cost or valuation
At 1 January 2024 | 100
At 31 December 2024 | 100
Provision
At 1 January 2024 | -
At 31 December 2024 | -
Carrying amount
At 31 December 2024 | 100
At 31 December 2023 | 100

Phillip Bates and Co Financial Planning Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Details of undertakings

Details of the investments (including principal place of business of unincorporated entities) in which the company holds 20% or more of the nominal value of any class of share capital are as follows:

Undertaking | Registered office | Holding | Proportion of voting rights and shares held
|  |  | 2024 | 2023
Subsidiary undertakings
Phillip Bates & Co Financial Services Limited | 5 Chester Road, Neston. CH64 9PA England & wales | Ordinary £1 shares | 100% | 100%

6 | Creditors

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

| 2024 £ | 2023 £
Due within one year |  |
Other creditors | 1 | 1

7 | Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

| 2024 | 2023
| No. | £ | No. | £
Ordinary shares of £1 each | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100