Rakuten Insight UK Limited - Limited company accounts 20.1
Rakuten Insight UK Limited - Limited company accounts 20.1
REGISTERED NUMBER: |
| Directors' Report and |
| Audited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2021 |
for |
| Rakuten Insight UK Limited |
Rakuten Insight UK Limited (Registered number: 07215677) |
Contents of the Financial Statements |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2021 |
Page |
Company Information | 1 |
Directors' Report | 2 |
Report of the Independent Auditors | 4 |
Income Statement | 8 |
Statement of Financial Position | 9 |
Statement of Changes in Equity | 10 |
Notes to the Financial Statements | 11 |
Rakuten Insight UK Limited |
Company Information |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2021 |
DIRECTORS: |
REGISTERED OFFICE: |
REGISTERED NUMBER: |
SENIOR STATUTORY AUDITOR: |
AUDITORS: |
London |
E1 8PA |
Rakuten Insight UK Limited (Registered number: 07215677) |
Directors' Report |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2021 |
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the year ended 31 December 2021. |
PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY |
| Principal activity of the company during the financial year was to conduct market research and public opinion polling. |
DIRECTORS |
The director who served the company throughout the year and up to the date of signing the financial statements was as follows: |
H Watanabe |
Other changes in directors serving the company were as follows: |
A I Birss (appointed 1 October 2021) |
T Keum (resigned 30 September 2021) |
R Kimura (resigned 30 September 2021) |
AUDITORS |
The auditors, P and Co (Partners) LLP, will be proposed for reappointment in accordance with the Companies Act 2006, s. 485. |
STATEMENT OF DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITIES |
| The directors are responsible for preparing the directors' report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations and in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice. |
| Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (Financial Reporting Standard 102 and applicable law). The financial statements are required by law to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to: |
| - select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; |
| - make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; |
| - state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and |
| - prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business. |
| The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. The directors are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. |
STATEMENT AS TO DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO AUDITORS |
| Each director who held office at the date of approval of this report confirms that: so far as the director is aware, there is no relevant audit information needed by the company's auditor in connection with preparing their report of which the company's auditor is unaware; and the director has taken all the steps that they ought to have taken as a director in order to be aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditor is aware of that information. |
| This report was approved by the board and signed on its behalf. |
Rakuten Insight UK Limited (Registered number: 07215677) |
Directors' Report |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2021 |
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. |
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD: |
Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of |
Rakuten Insight UK Limited |
Opinion |
| We have audited the financial statements of Rakuten Insight UK Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 December 2021 which comprise the Income Statement, Statement of Financial Position, Statement of Changes in Equity and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is 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). |
| We have audited the financial statements of Rakuten Insight UK Limited (the "company") for the year ended 31 December 2021 which comprise the Income Statement, the Statement of Financial Position, the Statement of Changes in Equity, and the Notes to the Financial Statements including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is 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). |
| In our opinion, the financial statements: |
| - give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 December 2021 and of its profit for the year then ended; |
| - have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and |
| - have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006. |
Basis for opinion |
| We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. |
Conclusions relating to going concern |
In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. |
Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue. |
Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report. |
Other information |
| The other information comprises the information included in the annual report other than the financial statements and our auditors' report thereon. The directors are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. |
| We have nothing to report in this regard. |
Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of |
Rakuten Insight UK Limited |
Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006 |
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit: |
- | the information given in the Directors' Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and |
- | the Directors' Report has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements. |
Matters on which we are required to report by exception |
| In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Directors' Report. |
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion: |
- | adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or |
- | the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or |
- | certain disclosures of directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or |
- | we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or |
- | the directors were not entitled to prepare the financial statements in accordance with the small companies regime and take advantage of the small companies' exemption from the requirement to prepare a Strategic Report or in preparing the Directors' Report. |
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit: |
- the information given in the Directors' Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and |
- the Directors' Report has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements. |
Matters on which we are required to report by exception |
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the comp |
any and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Directors' Report. We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion: |
- adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or |
- the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or |
- certain disclosures of directors’ remuneration specified by law are not made; or |
- we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit; or |
- the directors were not entitled to prepare the financial statements in accordance with the small companies regime and take advantage of the small companies’ exemptions in preparing the Directors' Report and from the requirement to prepare a strategic report. |
Responsibilities of directors |
| As explained more fully in the directors responsibilities statement set out on page 2, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so. |
Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of |
Rakuten Insight UK Limited |
Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements |
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue a Report of the Auditors that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements. |
Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below: |
We identified areas of laws and regulations that could reasonably be expected to have a material effect on the financial statements from our understanding of the company and the industry in which it operates. |
The principal risks of non-compliance with laws and regulations related to failure to comply with UK tax regulations and employment laws in the relevant jurisdictions, health and safety legislation, anti-bribery legislation, general data protection regulation (GDPR), relevant legislation such as the Criminal Finance Act 2017 and we considered the extent to which non-compliance might have a material effect on amounts or disclosures in the financial statements. We also considered those laws and regulations that have a direct impact on the preparation of the financial statements including the financial reporting legislation and the Companies Act 2006. We evaluated management’s incentives and opportunities for fraudulent manipulation of the financial statements (including the risk of override of controls) and determined that the principal risks were related to posting inappropriate journal entries and management bias in accounting for estimates including estimates relating to sales rebate accruals. |
We communicated identified laws and regulations throughout our team and remained alert to any indications of non-compliance throughout the audit. |
Based on this understanding we designed our audit procedures to identify non-compliance with such laws and regulations identified in the paragraphs above. Audit procedures performed included, but were not limited to: |
- discussing with management, including consideration of known or suspected instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations and fraud; |
- reading minutes of meetings of those charged with governance; |
- inspecting the company's regulatory and legal correspondence; |
- performing analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships that may indicate risks of material misstatement due to fraud; |
- identifying and testing journal entries, in particular journal entries posted with unusual account combinations; |
- testing of assumptions and judgements made by management in making significant accounting estimates; and |
- reviewing the financial statement disclosures and agreeing to underlying supporting documentation. |
Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements in the financial statements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. The further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we would become aware of it. Also, the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error as fraud may involve deliberate concealment by, for example, forgery or intentional misrepresentations or through collusion. We are not responsible for preventing non-compliance and cannot be expected to detect non-compliance with all laws and regulations. |
A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Auditors. |
Report of the Independent Auditors to the Members of |
Rakuten Insight UK Limited |
Use of our report |
This report is made solely to the company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company's members those matters we are required to state to them in a Report of the Auditors and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed. |
for and on behalf of |
London |
E1 8PA |
Rakuten Insight UK Limited (Registered number: 07215677) |
Income Statement |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2021 |
2021 | 2020 |
Notes | £ | £ |
TURNOVER |
Cost of sales | ( | ) | ( | ) |
GROSS PROFIT |
Administrative expenses | ( | ) | ( | ) |
OPERATING PROFIT/(LOSS) | ( | ) |
PROFIT/(LOSS) BEFORE TAXATION | 4 | ( | ) |
Tax on profit/(loss) | 6 | ( | ) |
PROFIT/(LOSS) FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR | ( | ) |
Rakuten Insight UK Limited (Registered number: 07215677) |
Statement of Financial Position |
31 December 2021 |
2021 | 2020 |
Notes | £ | £ |
FIXED ASSETS |
Tangible assets | 7 |
CURRENT ASSETS |
Debtors | 8 |
Prepayments and accrued income |
Cash at bank |
CREDITORS |
Amounts falling due within one year | 9 | ( | ) | ( | ) |
NET CURRENT ASSETS |
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES |
PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES | ( | ) | ( | ) |
ACCRUALS AND DEFERRED INCOME | 11 | ( | ) | ( | ) |
NET ASSETS |
CAPITAL AND RESERVES |
Called up share capital | 12 |
Retained earnings |
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS |
Signed on behalf of the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on |
Rakuten Insight UK Limited (Registered number: 07215677) |
Statement of Changes in Equity |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2021 |
Called up |
share | Retained | Total |
capital | earnings | equity |
£ | £ | £ |
Balance at 1 January 2020 |
Changes in equity |
Total comprehensive income | - | ( | ) | ( | ) |
Balance at 31 December 2020 |
Changes in equity |
Total comprehensive income | - |
Balance at 31 December 2021 |
Rakuten Insight UK Limited (Registered number: 07215677) |
Notes to the Financial Statements |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2021 |
1. | STATUTORY INFORMATION |
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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. |
The company has applied section 33.1 A of FRS 102 and decided not to disclose transactions entered into between members of a group; it is wholly owned by the member of the group which it has transactions with. |
Turnover |
| Turnover represents net invoiced sale of services, excluding value added tax. |
Tangible fixed assets |
| Tangible fixed assets, other than freehold land, are stated at cost or valuation less depreciation and any provision for impairment. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost or valuation of fixed assets, less their estimated residual value, over their expected useful lives on the following basis. |
| Fixtures and fittings | 12.5% - 20% Straight Line |
| Computer equipment | 20% Straight Line |
Current tax |
| Current tax is the amount of income tax payable in respect of the taxable profit for the year or prior years. Tax is calculated on the basis of tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the period end. |
Deferred tax |
| Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the statement of financial position 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. |
Foreign currencies |
| Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rate of exchange ruling at the statement of financial position date. Transactions in foreign currencies are recorded at the rate ruling at the date of the transaction. All foreign exchange differences are included to the income statement. |
Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits |
| The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the company's pension scheme are charged to profit or loss in the period to which they relate. |
Rakuten Insight UK Limited (Registered number: 07215677) |
Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2021 |
3. | EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS |
The average number of employees during the year was |
4. | PROFIT/(LOSS) BEFORE TAXATION |
The profit (2020 - loss) is stated after charging/(crediting): |
2021 | 2020 |
£ | £ |
Depreciation - owned assets |
Foreign exchange differences | ( | ) |
5. | AUDITORS' REMUNERATION |
2021 | 2020 |
£ | £ |
Fees payable to the company's auditors for the audit of the company's financial statements |
6. | TAXATION |
Analysis of the tax (credit)/charge |
The tax (credit)/charge on the profit for the year was as follows: |
2021 | 2020 |
£ | £ |
Deferred tax | ( | ) |
Tax on profit/(loss) | ( | ) |
Rakuten Insight UK Limited (Registered number: 07215677) |
Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2021 |
7. | TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS |
Fixtures |
and | Computer |
fittings | equipment | Totals |
£ | £ | £ |
COST |
At 1 January 2021 |
Disposals | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) |
At 31 December 2021 |
DEPRECIATION |
At 1 January 2021 |
Charge for year |
Eliminated on disposal | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) |
At 31 December 2021 |
NET BOOK VALUE |
At 31 December 2021 |
At 31 December 2020 |
8. | DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR |
2021 | 2020 |
£ | £ |
Amounts recoverable on contract |
Other debtors |
9. | CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR |
2021 | 2020 |
£ | £ |
Trade creditors |
Taxation and social security | ( | ) |
Other creditors |
10. | LEASING AGREEMENTS |
Minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases fall due as follows: |
2021 | 2020 |
£ | £ |
Within one year |
Rakuten Insight UK Limited (Registered number: 07215677) |
Notes to the Financial Statements - continued |
for the Year Ended 31 December 2021 |
11. | ACCRUALS AND DEFERRED INCOME |
2021 | 2020 |
£ | £ |
Accruals and deferred income | 126,154 | 431,232 |
12. | CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL |
Allotted, issued and fully paid: |
Number: | Class: | Nominal | 2021 | 2020 |
value: | £ | £ |
Ordinary | 150,000 | 150,000 |
13. | IMMEDIATE AND ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTIES |
| The company's immediate controlling party is Rakuten Insight Global Inc., a company incorporated and registered in Japan, who holds 100% of the issued share capital. The company's ultimate controlling party is Rakuten Group, Inc. (formerly known as Rakuten, Inc.), a company incorporated and registered in Japan. With effect from April 2021, the name of the company's ultimate controlling party was changed from Rakuten, Inc. to Rakuten Group, Inc. |
| The smallest and largest groups to consolidate these financial statement are Rakuten Insight Global Inc. and Rakuten Group, Inc. respectively. The consolidated financial statements can be obtained from the following addresses: |
| Rakuten Insight Global Inc. Rakuten Crimson House, 1-14-1 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 158-0094 Japan |
| Rakuten Group, Inc. Rakuten Crimson House, 1-14-1 Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 158-0094 Japan |
14. | DIVIDENDS |
| The proposed final dividend of US$1.67 (equivalent to £1.23) per share was approved by the Board of Directors on 1 July 2022. The proposed dividend has not been included as a liability as at 31 December 2021. It will be paid on 15 July 2022 to shareholders who are on the Register of members at close of business on 15 July 2022. |