| During the year the directors identified that output value added tax had been under-declared from 1 April 2023 because the electronic point of sale system had not been programmed with the correct value added tax rate categories, and that payments made in cash out of till takings, principally milk purchases and casual wages, had not been recorded in the accounting records.
The errors are material and have been corrected retrospectively in accordance with Section 10 of Financial Reporting Standard 102. The comparative figures for the year ended 30 November 2024 have been restated and are not comparable with those previously reported. The effect on that year is to reduce turnover by £12,258, increase cost of sales by £4,678, increase administrative expenses by £4,465, increase creditors falling due within one year by £15,402, reduce cash at bank and in hand by £9,409 and increase the reported loss from £24,611 to £46,013. The balance of the profit and loss account brought forward at 1 December 2023 has been reduced by £3,409, from £45,831 to £49,240, being the amount of the errors attributable to the year ended 30 November 2023, and reserves at 30 November 2024 have been reduced from £70,442 to £92,254.
Of the total reduction in equity of £24,811, £11,930 represents value added tax under-declared, £175 represents interest and £12,707 represents expenditure paid in cash and previously omitted. Of the reduction in cash at bank and in hand, £3,297 arises from the reclassification of an overdrawn bank current account to creditors and is not a correction of an error. There is no corporation tax effect because the company has trading losses in every period since incorporation, and no dividends have been paid in the current or any prior period. |