Registered number: 00088357
UNAUDITED
INFORMATION FOR FILING WITH THE REGISTRAR
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
Report to the director on the preparation of the unaudited statutory financial statements of William Potts & Sons Limited for the year ended 31 December 2024
We have compiled the accompanying financial statements of William Potts & Sons Limited (the ‘company’) based on the information you have provided. These financial statements comprise the Balance Sheet of William Potts & Sons Limited as at 31 December 2024, and the Profit and Loss Account for the year then ended, and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.
We performed this compilation engagement in accordance with International Standard on Related Services 4410 (Revised), 'Compilation Engagements'.
We have applied our expertise in accounting and financial reporting to assist you in the preparation and presentation of these financial statements in accordance with 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). As a member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at www.icaew.com.
These financial statements and the accuracy and completeness of the information used to compile them are your responsibility.
Since a compilation engagement is not an assurance engagement, we are not required to verify the accuracy or completeness of the information you provided to us to compile these financial statements. Accordingly, we do not express an audit opinion or a review conclusion on whether these financial statements are prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
This report is made solely to the company's director in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter dated 29 April 2025. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the financial statements of the company and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the company's director in this report in accordance with our engagement letter dated 29 April 2025. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and its director for our work or for this report.
Grant Thornton UK LLP
Chartered Accountants
Milton Keynes
29 September 2025
BALANCE SHEET
AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2024
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WILLIAM POTTS & SONS LIMITED
BALANCE SHEET (CONTINUED)
AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2024
The financial statements have been delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
The Company has opted not to file the profit and loss account in accordance with provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime.
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the board and were signed on its behalf by:
The notes on pages 3 to 4 form part of these financial statements.
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WILLIAM POTTS & SONS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
The company is a private company limited by shares and is registered in England and Wales.
Registered Number: 00088357.
Registered Office:
112 Alfreton Road
Derby
Derbyshire
DE21 4AU
Registered Number: 00088357.
Registered Office:
112 Alfreton Road
Derby
Derbyshire
DE21 4AU
2.Accounting policies
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention unless otherwise specified within these accounting policies and in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102, the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland and the Companies Act 2006.
The company was dormant throughout the year. The company has not traded during the year or during the preceding financial year. During these periods, the company received no income and incurred no expenditure and therefore made neither profit nor loss.
The Company has elected to apply the provisions of Section 11 “Basic Financial Instruments” of FRS 102 to all of its financial instruments.
Financial instruments are recognised in the Company's Balance Sheet when the Company becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument.
Financial assets and liabilities are offset, with the net amounts presented in the financial statements, when there is a legally enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.
Basic financial assets
Basic financial assets, which include trade and other debtors, cash and bank balances, are initially measured at their transaction price (adjusted for transaction costs except in the initial measurement of financial assets that are subsequently measured at fair value through profit and loss) and are subsequently carried at their amortised cost using the effective interest method, less any provision for impairment, 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.
Discounting is omitted where the effect of discounting is immaterial. The Company's cash and cash equivalents, trade and most other debtors due with the operating cycle fall into this category of financial instruments.
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WILLIAM POTTS & SONS LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
The immediate parent undertaking is Smith of Derby Group Limited.
In the opinion of the directors there is no single ultimate controlling party.
In the opinion of the directors there is no single ultimate controlling party.
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