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Registration number: OC425635

Philip Hughes Associates LLP
Annual Report and Unaudited Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Philip Hughes Associates LLP

Contents

Limited liability partnership information | 1
Accountants' Report | 2
Balance Sheet | 3
Statement of Changes in Members’ Interests | 4
Notes to the Financial Statements | 5 to 8

Philip Hughes Associates LLP

Limited liability partnership information

Designated members | Mr P S Hughes Mr S Khatri Mr S Wheeler

Registered office | Old Manor Stables Tout Hill Wincanton BA9 9DL

Accountants | Edwards and Keeping Limited Chartered Accountants Unity Chambers 34 High East Street Dorchester Dorset DT1 1HA

Chartered Accountants' Report to the Members on the Preparation of the Unaudited Statutory Accounts of
Philip Hughes Associates LLP
for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, as applied to limited liability partnerships, we have prepared for your approval the accounts of Philip Hughes Associates LLP for the year ended 31 March 2025 set out on pages 3 to 8 from the limited liability partnership's accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.

As a practising member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at
http://www.icaew.com/en/members/regulations-standards-and-guidance.

This report is made solely to the members of Philip Hughes Associates LLP, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter dated 11 November 2024. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the accounts of Philip Hughes Associates LLP and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the members of Philip Hughes Associates LLP, as a body, in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16 AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than Philip Hughes Associates LLP and its members as a body for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that Philip Hughes Associates LLP has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory accounts that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of Philip Hughes Associates LLP. You consider that Philip Hughes Associates LLP is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the year.

We have not been instructed to carry out an audit or a review of the accounts of Philip Hughes Associates LLP. For this reason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the statutory accounts.

Edwards and Keeping Limited
Chartered Accountants
Unity Chambers
34 High East Street
Dorchester
Dorset
DT1 1HA

3 November 2025

Philip Hughes Associates LLP

(Registration number: OC425635)
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2025

| Note | 2025 | 2024
|  | £ | £ | £ | £
Fixed assets |  |  |  |  |
Tangible assets | 3 |  | 11,582 |  | 3,630
Current assets |  |  |  |  |
Debtors | 4 | 98,323 |  | 92,189 |
Cash and short-term deposits |  | 308,448 |  | 235,343 |
|  | 406,771 |  | 327,532 |
Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year | 5 | (65,732) |  | (40,875) |
Net current assets |  |  | 341,039 |  | 286,657
Net assets attributable to members |  |  | 352,621 |  | 290,287
Represented by: |  |  |  |  |
Loans and other debts due to members |  |  |  |  |
Members' capital classified as a liability |  | 352,621 |  | 290,287 |
|  |  | 352,621 |  | 290,287
Total members' interests |  |  |  |  |
Loans and other debts due to members |  | 352,621 |  | 290,287 |
|  |  | 352,621 |  | 290,287

For the year ending 31 March 2025 the limited liability partnership was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006, as applied to limited liability partnerships, relating to small entities.

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to LLPs subject to the small LLPs regime and FRS 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard Applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland’.

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

The members acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act, as applied to limited liability partnerships by the Limited Liability Partnerships (Accounts and Audit) (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2008 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

The financial statements of Philip Hughes Associates LLP (registered number OC425635) were approved by the Board and authorised for issue on 2 November 2025. They were signed on behalf of the limited liability partnership by:

Mr P S Hughes Designated member

Philip Hughes Associates LLP

Statement of Changes in Members’ Interests
At 31 March 2025

| Loans and other debts due to/(from) members |
| Members' capital classified as a liability £ | Members' other amounts £ | Total 2025 £
Members' interest at 1 April 2024 | 290,287 | - | 290,287
Members' remuneration charged as an expense | - | 457,295 | 457,295
Members' interests after total comprehensive income | 290,287 | 457,295 | 747,582
Drawings (including tax payments) | - | (394,961) | (394,961)
At 31 March 2025 | 290,287 | 62,334 | 352,621

Philip Hughes Associates LLP

Notes to the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

1 | 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 financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 Section 1A - 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006.

General information and basis of accounting

The limited liability partnership is incorporated in England and Wales under the Limited Liability Partnership Act 2000. The address of the registered office is given on the limited liability partnership information page. The nature of the limited liability partnership’s operations and its principal activities are given in the members’ report.
These 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 and in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS102) issued by the Reporting Council in October 2019 and the requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice Accounting by Limited Liability Partnerships (Issued December 2018) and the Companies Act 2006 (as applied to LLPs)
The functional currency of Philip Hughes Associates LLP is considered to be pounds sterling because that is the currency of the primary economic environment in which the limited liability partnership operates. Foreign operations are included in accordance with the policies set out below.

Revenue recognition

Fee income represents revenue earned under a wide variety of contracts to provide professional services. Revenue is recognised as earned when, and to the extent that, the firm obtains the right to consideration in exchange for its performance under these contracts. It is measured at the fair value of the right to consideration, which represents amounts chargeable to clients, including expenses and disbursements but excluding value added tax.
Revenue is generally recognised as contract activity progresses so that for incomplete contracts it reflects the partial performance of the contractual obligations. For such contracts the amount of revenue reflects the accrual of the right to consideration by reference to the value of work performed. Revenue not billed to clients is included in debtors if the work is complete or work in progress if partially completed and payments on account in excess of the relevant amount of revenue are included in creditors.
Fee income that is contingent on events outside the control of the firm is recognised when the contingent event occurs.

Philip Hughes Associates LLP

Notes to the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Members' remuneration and division of profits

The SORP recognises that the basis of calculating profits for allocation may differ from the profits reflected through the financial statements prepared in compliance with recommended practice, given the established need to seek to focus profit allocation on ensuring equity between different generations and populations of members.
Consolidation of the results of certain subsidiary undertakings, the provision for annuities to current and former members, pension scheme charges, the spreading of acquisition integration costs and the treatment of long leasehold interests are all items which may generate differences between profits calculated for the purpose of allocation and those reported within the financial statements. Where such differences arise, they have been included within other amounts in the balance sheet.
Members' fixed shares of profits (excluding discretionary fixed share bonuses) and interest earned on members' balances are automatically allocated and, are treated as members' remuneration charged as an expense to the profit and loss account in arriving at profit available for discretionary division among members.
The remainder of profit shares, which have not been allocated until after the balance sheet date, are treated in these financial statements as unallocated at the balance sheet date and included within other reserves.

Taxation

The taxation payable on the partnership's profits is the personal liability of the members, although payment of such liabilities is administered by the partnership on behalf of its members. Consequently, neither partnership taxation nor related deferred taxation is accounted for in these financial statements. Sums set aside in respect of members' tax obligations are included in the balance sheet within loans and other debts due to members, or are set against amounts due from members as appropriate.

Tangible fixed 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 provided on tangible fixed assets so as to write off the cost or valuation, less any estimated residual value, over their expected useful economic life as follows:

Asset class | Depreciation method and rate
Plant and Machinery | 25% reducing balance

Trade debtors

Trade debtors are amounts due from customers for 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 limited liability partnership will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the original terms of the receivables.

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.

Philip Hughes Associates LLP

Notes to the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

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 limited liability partnership 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.

Members' interests

Members' capital is repayable on retirement of the member and is therefore classified as a liability
Amounts due to members after more than one year comprise provisions for annuities to current members and certain loans from members which are not repayable within twelve months of the balance sheet date.

Pensions and other post retirement obligations

The partnership operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions are recognised in the profit and loss account in the period in which they become payable in accordance with the rules of the scheme.

2 | Particulars of employees

The average number of persons employed by the limited liability partnership during the year was 5 (2024 - 6).

Philip Hughes Associates LLP

Notes to the Financial Statements
for the Year Ended 31 March 2025

3 | Tangible fixed assets

| Plant and machinery £ | Total £
Cost |  |
At 1 April 2024 | 9,082 | 9,082
Additions | 12,259 | 12,259
Disposals | (1,896) | (1,896)
At 31 March 2025 | 19,445 | 19,445
Depreciation |  |
At 1 April 2024 | 5,452 | 5,452
Charge for the year | 3,859 | 3,859
Eliminated on disposals | (1,448) | (1,448)
At 31 March 2025 | 7,863 | 7,863
Net book value |  |
At 31 March 2025 | 11,582 | 11,582
At 31 March 2024 | 3,630 | 3,630

4 | Debtors

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Trade debtors | 89,411 | 86,796
Prepayments and accrued income | 8,912 | 5,393
| 98,323 | 92,189

5 | Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year

| 2025 £ | 2024 £
Trade creditors | 4,410 | 1,388
Other creditors | 1,016 | 782
Accruals and deferred income | 3,376 | 2,936
Taxation and social security | 56,930 | 35,769
| 65,732 | 40,875

6 | Control

The members are the controlling party by virtue of their controlling interest in the limited liability partnership. The ultimate controlling party is the same as the controlling party.