REGISTERED NUMBER: 06555594 (England and Wales)

Eric Ambler Literary Management Limited

Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31st December 2024

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Company Information

1

Balance Sheet

2

Notes to the Financial Statements

4

DIRECTORS:

Scott Paul Hoffman

Simon Anthony Lee Brett

Mary Margaret Durkan

Lisa Dowdeswell

REGISTERED OFFICE:

77 Station Road

Petersfield

Hampshire

GU32 3FQ

REGISTERED NUMBER:

06555594 (England and Wales)

ACCOUNTANTS:

Sheen Stickland

Chartered Accountants

The Engine House

77 Station Road

Petersfield

Hampshire

GU32 3FQ

CURRENT ASSETS

Debtors

5

12,803

14,975

Cash at bank

34,529

7,507

47,332

22,482

CREDITORS

Amounts falling due within one year

6

15,054

5,539

NET CURRENT ASSETS

32,278

16,943

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES

32,278

16,943

CAPITAL AND RESERVES

Called up share capital

100

100

Retained earnings

32,178

16,843

32,278

16,943

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31st December 2024.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31st December 2024 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for:

(a)	ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and

(b)

preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of each financial year and of its profit or loss for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company.

The 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, the Statement of Comprehensive Income has not been delivered.

The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 30th September 2025 and were signed on its behalf by:

Scott Paul Hoffman - Director

1.	STATUTORY INFORMATION

Eric Ambler Literary Management Limited is a private company, limited by shares , registered in England and Wales. The company's registered number and registered office address can be found on the Company Information page.

2.	ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparing the financial statements

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" including the provisions of Section 1A "Small Entities" and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

Turnover

Turnover comprises revenue receivable by the Company in respect of royalties and advances receivable from the exploitation of intellectual property in connection with rights, titles and interest held by the Company in literary estates, exclusive of Value Added Tax.

Revenue in respect of royalties and advances receivable is recognised as and when the Company receives notification of amounts due, during the reporting period, with amounts accrued and/or deferred where applicable in accordance with the terms of the underlying contract.

Financial instruments

The Company held no financial instruments that would require specific disclosure under sections 1.12, 11 or 12 of Financial Reporting Standard 102 or paragraph 36 of Schedule 1 to the Companies Act 2006.

The total interest expenditure in respect of financial liabilities not held at fair value through profit or loss (i.e. re-measured to the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date with any financial movement recognised immediately in profit or loss) was £Nil (2023: £130).

Taxation

Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Income Statement, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity.

Current or deferred taxation assets and liabilities are not discounted.

Current tax is recognised at the amount of tax payable using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date.

Deferred tax

Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the balance sheet date.

Timing differences arise from the inclusion of income and expenses in tax assessments in periods different from those in which they are recognised in financial statements. Deferred tax is measured using tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the year end and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference.

Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised only to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits.

Functional and presentational currency

Items included in the financial statements of the Company are measured using the currency of the primary economic environment in which the Company operates (the "functional currency").

The functional currency of the Company, and the currency in which the financial statements are presented (the "presentational currency"), is 'Pounds Sterling' (£) rounded to the nearest single unit of currency.

3.	EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS

The average number of employees during the year was NIL (2023 - NIL).

4.	INTANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

Other

intangible

assets

£

COST

At 1st January 2024

and 31st December 2024

100,000

AMORTISATION

At 1st January 2024

and 31st December 2024

100,000

NET BOOK VALUE

At 31st December 2024

-

At 31st December 2023

-

5.

DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

2024

2023

£

£

Amounts owed by group undertakings

12,441

14,425

VAT

-

246

Prepayments and accrued income

362

304

12,803

14,975

Amounts owed by group undertakings are unsecured, interest-free and repayable on demand with no fixed date for repayment.

At the balance sheet date, the provision for impairment against debtors falling due within one year was £nil (2022: £nil).

6.

CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

2024

2023

£

£

Trade creditors

267

172

Taxation and social security

10,637

3,057

Other creditors

4,150

2,310

15,054

5,539

7.	RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

At the balance sheet date the Company was owed £12,441 (2023: £14,425) by non-wholly owned fellow group undertakings. Amounts owed are unsecured, interest-free and repayable on demand with no fixed date of repayment.

There were no other related party transactions and/or period end balances to report in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 and Section 1A of Financial Reporting Standard 102 as part of these financial statements.

8.	ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY

The Company's immediate parent company is WorldWrites Holdings Limited, a company incorporated under the UK Companies Act 2006 which holds a 51% interest in the total voting rights of the Company.

The parent undertaking of the smallest group to consolidate these financial statements is FBT Holdings LLC. FBT Holdings LLC is the Company's ultimate parent undertaking and whose registered business address is 630 9th Avenue, Suite 1101, New York, NY 10036