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Registration number: 02866480

Cougar Couriers Limited
Unaudited Filleted Abridged Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Cougar Couriers Limited

Contents

Company Information | 1
Abridged Balance Sheet | 2 to 3
Notes to the Unaudited Abridged Financial Statements | 4 to 8

Cougar Couriers Limited

Company Information

Director | Mr S Humphries

Registered office | 450 Bath Road Suite 2.01 Heathrow West Drayton Middlesex UB7 0EB

Accountants | Fern & Co Accountants Ltd Chartered Certified AccountantsDairy House Moneyrow Green Holyport Maidenhead Berkshire SL6 2ND

Cougar Couriers Limited

(Registration number: 02866480)
Abridged Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2024

| Note | 2024 £ | 2023 £
Fixed assets |  |  |
Tangible assets | 4 | 269,750 | 288,281
Current assets |  |  |
Debtors |  | 1,306,587 | 1,236,452
Cash at bank and in hand |  | 402,640 | 643,070
|  | 1,709,227 | 1,879,522
Prepayments and accrued income |  | 114,871 | 158,523
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year | 5.1 | (695,483) | (794,255)
Net current assets |  | 1,128,615 | 1,243,790
Total assets less current liabilities |  | 1,398,365 | 1,532,071
Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year | 5.2 | (98,140) | (158,890)
Accruals and deferred income |  | (30,952) | (16,422)
Net assets |  | 1,269,273 | 1,356,759
Capital and reserves |  |  |
Called up share capital | 6 | 158 | 158
Retained earnings |  | 1,269,115 | 1,356,601
Shareholders' funds |  | 1,269,273 | 1,356,759

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.

Director's 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 director acknowledges his responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

All of the company’s members have consented to the preparation of an Abridged Balance Sheet in accordance with Section 444(2A) of the Companies Act 2006.

These financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. As permitted by section 444 (5A) of the Companies Act 2006, the director has not delivered to the registrar a copy of the Profit and Loss Account.

Approved and authorised by the director on 28 August 2025

Cougar Couriers Limited

(Registration number: 02866480)
Abridged Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2024

......................................... Mr S Humphries Director

Cougar Couriers Limited

Notes to the Unaudited Abridged 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 and Wales.

The address of its registered office is:
450 Bath Road
Suite 2.01
Heathrow
West Drayton
Middlesex
UB7 0EB
England

These financial statements were authorised for issue by the director on 28 August 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 abridged 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 abridged 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.

Revenue recognition

Turnover comprises the fair value of the consideration received or receivable for the sale of goods and provision of services in the ordinary course of the company’s activities. Turnover is shown net of sales/value added tax, returns, rebates and discounts.
The company recognises revenue when:
The amount of revenue can be reliably measured;
it is probable that future economic benefits will flow to the entity;
and specific criteria have been met for each of the company's activities.

Tax

The tax expense for the period comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in profit or loss, except that a change attributable to an item of income or expense recognised as other comprehensive income is also recognised directly in other comprehensive income.

The current income tax charge is calculated on the basis of tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date in the countries where the company operates and generates taxable income.

Cougar Couriers Limited

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

Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences between taxable profits and profits reported in the financial statements.
Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised when it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits.
Deferred tax is measured using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference.

Tangible assets

Tangible assets are stated in the balance sheet at cost, less any subsequent accumulated depreciation and subsequent accumulated impairment losses.
The cost of tangible assets includes directly attributable incremental costs incurred in their acquisition and installation.

Depreciation

Depreciation is charged so as to write off the cost of assets, other than land and properties under construction over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

Asset class | Depreciation method and rate
Plant and machinery | 25% reducing balance
Office Equipment | 25% straight line
Furniture, fittings and equipment | 20% straight line
Other Tangible Assets - Chattels | not depreciated
Motor Vehicles | 25% reducing balance

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 debtors

Trade debtors are amounts due from customers for merchandise sold or services performed in the ordinary course of business.
Trade debtors are recognised initially at the transaction price. They are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less provision for impairment. A provision for the impairment of trade debtors is established when there is objective evidence that the company will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the original terms of the receivables.

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.

Borrowings

Cougar Couriers Limited

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

Interest-bearing borrowings are initially recorded at fair value, net of transaction costs. Interest-bearing borrowings are subsequently carried at amortised cost, with the difference between the proceeds, net of transaction costs, and the amount due on redemption being recognised as a charge to the profit and loss account over the period of the relevant borrowing.
Interest expense is recognised on the basis of the effective interest method and is included in interest payable and similar charges.
Borrowings are classified as current liabilities unless the company has an unconditional right to defer settlement of the liability for at least twelve months after the reporting date.

Leases

Leases in which substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership are retained by the lessor are classified as operating leases. Payments made under operating leases are charged to profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the period of the lease.
Leases are classified as finance leases whenever the terms of the lease transfer substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to the lessee.
Assets held under finance leases are recognised at the lower of their fair value at inception of the lease and the present value of the minimum lease payments. These assets are depreciated on a straight-line basis over the shorter of the useful life of the asset and the lease term. The corresponding liability to the lessor is included in the balance sheet as a finance lease obligation.
Lease payments are apportioned between finance costs in the profit and loss account and reduction of the lease obligation so as to achieve a constant periodic rate of interest on the remaining balance of the liability.

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.

Defined contribution pension obligation

A defined contribution plan is a pension plan under which fixed contributions are paid into a pension fund and the company has no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions even if the fund does not hold sufficient assets to pay all employees the benefits relating to employee service in the current and prior periods.
Contributions to defined contribution plans are recognised as employee benefit expense when they are due. If contribution payments exceed the contribution due for service, the excess is recognised as a prepayment.

3 | Staff numbers

The average number of persons employed by the company (including the director) during the year, was 31 (2023 - 35).

Cougar Couriers Limited

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

4 | Tangible assets

| Property, plant and equipment £ | Motor vehicles £ | Other tangible assets £ | Total £
Cost or valuation
At 1 January 2024 | 138,029 | 363,948 | 56,000 | 557,977
Additions | 19,592 | 74,965 | - | 94,557
Disposals | - | (21,825) | - | (21,825)
At 31 December 2024 | 157,621 | 417,088 | 56,000 | 630,709
Depreciation
At 1 January 2024 | 111,814 | 157,882 | - | 269,696
Charge for the year | 15,059 | 98,029 | - | 113,088
Eliminated on disposal | - | (21,825) | - | (21,825)
At 31 December 2024 | 126,873 | 234,086 | - | 360,959
Carrying amount
At 31 December 2024 | 30,748 | 183,002 | 56,000 | 269,750
At 31 December 2023 | 26,215 | 206,066 | 56,000 | 288,281

5 | Creditors

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

Creditors include net obligations under finance lease and hire purchase contracts which are secured against assets to which they relate of £110,787 (2023 - £84,998).

Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year

Creditors include net obligations under finance lease and hire purchase contracts which are secured against the assets to which they relate of £92,842 (2023 - £143,688).

6 | Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

| 2024 | 2023
| No. | £ | No. | £
Ordinary of £1 each | 158 | 158 | 158 | 158

Cougar Couriers Limited

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

7 | Parent and ultimate parent undertaking

The company's immediate parent is Cougar Courier Holdings Ltd, incorporated in England and Wales.