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FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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SB TELECOM EUROPE LTD.
COMPANY INFORMATION
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SB TELECOM EUROPE LTD.
CONTENTS
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SB TELECOM EUROPE LTD.
DIRECTOR'S REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
The Director presents his report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.
The Director is responsible for preparing the Director's Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
In preparing these financial statements, the Director is required to:
∙select suitable accounting policies for the Company's financial statements and then apply them consistently;
∙make judgments and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
∙state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;
∙prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Company will continue in business.
The Director is 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 to enable him to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. He is 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.
The Director is responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the Company's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements and other information included in Director's Reports may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
The profit for the year, after taxation, amounted to £481,236 (2023 - £399,291).
The Director who served during the year was:
The director is not aware, at the date of the "Director's report and financial statements", of any likely changes in the Company's activities in the next year. The Company continues to provide IT and digital marketing services and these activities are the main sources of income and expenditure for the Company.
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SB TELECOM EUROPE LTD.
DIRECTOR'S REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
Credit Risk
The Company defines credit risk as the risk that a customer will not meet its obligations under a sale of services contract leading to a financial loss. The company has a policy in place regarding to trade debtors collection as well as due diligence on 3rd party customers. The director considers that the Company has successfully reduced its credit risk as much as economically viable, and it continues to monitor its credit risk position very closely. Liquidity risk Liquidity risk is the risk that cash may not be available, or the assets cannot be liquidated at a reasonable cost, to pay obligations when they fall due. To guard against this risk, assets are managed with liquidity in mind maintaining a healthy balance of cash and cash equivalents. The maturity profile is monitored to ensure adequate liquidity is maintained. Therefore the liquidity risk is low. Exchange rate risk The company is exposed to foreign exchange risk from most of its trading balances due to its parent company (amounts owed to group companies and receivable from group companies). The principal transaction exposures are JPY. There are fluctuations because of converting year end balances at the closing rate. In the current year, there were large exchange losses incurred from the exchange rate fluctuation between the JPY and GBP. The company manages foreign currency exchange risk by mainly issuing invoices in its functional currency (GBP) and by receiving supplier invoices in various foreign currencies, including Japanese Yen. Overall, this mitigates against the exchange risk.
The company’s auditor, Greenback Alan LLP, ceased to operate as a registered auditor on 31 March 2025 and its business was transferred to Blick Rothenberg. Accordingly the company appointed Blick Rothenberg Audit LLP as its auditor in accordance with section 485 of the Companies Act 2006.
Strategic Report
The company is a member of an ineligible group so is not permitted to prepare accounts under the small companies regime but has taken advantage of the exemption available under section 414B of the Companies Act 2006 from the requirement to prepare a strategic report or business review within the director's report. This director's report has been preprared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entitled to the small companies exemption under Section 415A of the Companies Act 2006.
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SB TELECOM EUROPE LTD.
DIRECTOR'S REPORT (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
This report was approved by the board on
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SB TELECOM EUROPE LTD.
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE DIRECTOR OF SB TELECOM EUROPE LTD.
We have audited the financial statements of SB Telecom Europe Ltd. (the 'Company') for the year ended 31 December 2024, which comprise the Statement of Comprehensive Income, the Balance Sheet, the Statement of Cash Flows, the Statement of Changes in Equity and the related notes, 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, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
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's 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 United Kingdom, including the Financial Reporting Council'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.
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 financial statements are authorised for issue.
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the Director with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.
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SB TELECOM EUROPE LTD.
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE DIRECTOR OF SB TELECOM EUROPE LTD. (CONTINUED)
The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report other than the financial statements and our Auditor's Report thereon. The Director is responsible for the other information contained within the Annual Report. 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. 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 course of 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 this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. 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.
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
∙the information given in the Director's Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
∙the Director's Report has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the Company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Director's Report.
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SB TELECOM EUROPE LTD.
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE DIRECTOR OF SB TELECOM EUROPE LTD. (CONTINUED)
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:
∙the engagement partner ensured that the engagement team collectively had the appropriate competence, capabilities and skills to identify or recognise non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations
∙we identified the laws and regulations applicable to the company through discussions with directors and other management, and from our commercial knowledge and experience of the company's indusry;
∙we focused on specific laws and regulations which we considered may have a direct material effect on the financial statements or the operations of the company, including the Companies Act 2006, taxation legislation, anti-bribery and employment law;
∙we assessed the extent of compliance with the laws and regulations identified above through making enquiries of management and inspecting legal correspondence; and
∙identified laws and regulations were communicated within the audit team regularly and the team remained alert to instances of non-compliance throughout the audit.
We assessed the susceptibility of the company’s financial statements to material misstatement, including obtaining an understanding of how fraud might occur, by:
∙making enquiries of management as to where they considered there was susceptibility to fraud, their knowledge of actual, suspected and alleged fraud; and
∙considering the internal controls in place to mitigate risks of fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations.
To address the risk of fraud through management bias and override of controls, we:
∙performed analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships;
∙tested a sample of journal entries to identify unusual transactions; and
∙investigated the rationale behind significant or unusual transactions.
In response to the risk of irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, we designed procedures which included, but were not limited to:
∙agreeing financial statement disclosures to underlying supporting documentation;
∙reading the minutes of meetings of those charged with governance;
∙enquiring of management as to actual and potential litigation and claims; and
∙reviewing correspondence with HM Revenue and Customs, and the company’s legal advisors.
There are inherent limitations in our audit procedures described above. The more removed that laws and regulations are from financial transactions, the less likely it is that we would become aware of non-compliance.
Auditing standards also limit the audit procedures required to identify non-compliance with laws and regulations to enquiry of the directors and other management and the inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.
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SB TELECOM EUROPE LTD.
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT TO THE DIRECTOR OF SB TELECOM EUROPE LTD. (CONTINUED)
Material misstatements that arise due to fraud can be harder to detect than those that arise from error as they may involve deliberate concealment or collusion.
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Auditor's 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.
Yusuke Takanishi (Senior Statutory Auditor)
for and on behalf of
Chartered Accountants
Statutory Auditor
16 Great Queen Street
Covent Garden
WC2B 5AH
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SB TELECOM EUROPE LTD.
STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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SB TELECOM EUROPE LTD.
REGISTERED NUMBER: 03514174
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2024
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf on
The notes on pages 13 to 26 form part of these financial statements.
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