The notes on pages 2 to 9 form part of these financial statements.
Processia Solutions Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is Second Floor, Mid City Place, 71 High Holborn, London, England, WC1V 6EA.
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 produced on a break-up basis see Note 1.2.
The financial statements have not been prepared on a going concern basis. The directors have taken the decision to apply to Companies House for the voluntary strike-off and dissolution of the company within the next twelve months, and therefore the going concern assumption is not appropriate.
As a result, the financial statements have been prepared on a break-up basis. This basis assumes that the company will not continue trading and that assets will be realised, and liabilities settled, in the normal course of winding up the business.
Consideration of adjustments have been made where necessary to reflect the recoverable amount of assets and to provide for any known liabilities and costs associated with the closure of the company. No fair value adjustments have been required.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the director is 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.
The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:
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 is unqualified and includes the following:
Emphasis of matter - Basis of Preparation
Processia Solutions Limited is in the process of entering into the following business transfer agreements.
Prior to the integration taking place, the following steps are required in order to bring the Company into a positive distributable reserves position:
1. Processia Solutions Inc. (Canada), the Company's parent during the financial year, has been amalgamated into Atos Group Quebec Inc. (Canada), which now owns 100% of the share capital in the Company.
2. Atos Group Quebec Inc. (Canada) – This entity will be making a capital contribution of £1,153,000 to the Company in exchange for the allotment and issue of 1,153,000 ordinary shares of £1.00 each in the issued share capital of the Company.
3. Following the share subscription noted in point 1 above, the Company will then carry out a reduction of capital, leaving the issued share capital of the Company as £1.00.
4. At the same time as the capital reduction noted in point 2 above, the entire share premium account of the Company is to be cancelled and the balance standing to the credit of the share premium account of £399,900 will be released to the distributable reserves.
Following completion of the above three steps, the Company will then have sufficient distributable reserves to allow for the transfer of the business and assets of the Company at book value. Save for contracts relating to one customer, the plan is to transfer all business and assets of the Company to Eviden Technology Services Limited and to document that transfer in the form of a business transfer agreement. One customer will not agree to novate their contracts to Eviden Technology Services Limited, so all current contracts between the Company and customer will be novated to Atos IT Services UK Limited and there will be a separate asset transfer agreement making reference to those novation agreements.
Prior to the realisation that the Company did not have distributable reserves, the business wanted the transfers to have an effective date of 1 January 2025 and so, in anticipation of the integration, all employees of Processia Solutions Limited were formally transferred under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) with effect from 1 January 2025. Similarly, we note that certain transfers/movements were made in the finance systems from the Company to Eviden Technology Services Limited with effect from 1 January 2025 and the legal team have advised that the financial movements be reversed back to the original position and completed at the time that the business and asset transfer agreements are completed. Moreover, given that there were insufficient distributable reserves in place on 1 January 2025 and that the distributable reserves will only be created contemporaneously with the completion of each of the three steps listed above, we note that the business and asset transfer agreements will not be able to have an effective date of 1 January 2025 being prior to the distributable reserves being in place.
With regard to the employees who have already been TUPE transferred to Eviden Technology Services Limited, service orders between Eviden Technology Services Limited and Atos IT Services UK Limited will be put in place for any resources required in order to fulfil the Dassault contracts.
In terms of overall timing for completion of the three steps noted above and the business and asset transfers, whilst the steps are dependent on Atos group level approval, we would anticipate being able to complete the three listed steps on or before 30 June 2025 and completing the business and asset transfers on or before 31 July 2025. Following completion of these transactions, our aim will then be to apply for a voluntary dissolution of the Company within the next 12 month period.
We note that there is currently a debenture in favor of HSBC Canada over the business and assets of the Company. We have been liaising with the team at HSBC who have confirmed that the security is historic and that HSBC has no interest in the security. We await a deed of release from HSBC so that we can mark the security as having been satisfied at Companies House. The current issue that we are facing on this, however, is that HSBC Canada was recently absorbed by Royal Bank of Canada and so obtaining any assistance with this in Canada continues to be a challenge.