Adam Hall Ltd - Accounts

Registered number

01388340

Adam Hall Ltd

Report and Accounts

30 June 2021

Adam Hall Ltd
Report and accounts
Contents
Page
Company information	1
Directors' report	2
Independent auditor's report	3
Profit and loss account	5
Balance sheet	6
Statement of changes in equity	7
Notes to the accounts	8

Adam Hall Ltd

Company Information

Directors

David John Kirby

Sven Wagner (Finance Director)

Auditors

Ward & Co

307 Euston Road

LONDON

NW1 3AW

Registered office

The Seedbed Centre Vanguard Way

Shoeburyness

Southend-On-Sea

Essex

SS3 9QY

Registered number

01388340

Adam Hall Ltd
Registered number:			01388340
Directors' Report
The directors present their report and accounts for the year ended 30 June 2021.
Principal activities
The company's principal activity during the year was acting as selling agent of audio hardware and equipment for the parent company.
Directors
The following persons served as directors during the year:
	David John Kirby
	Sven Wagner
Directors' responsibilities

The directors are responsible for preparing the report and accounts in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Company law requires the directors to prepare accounts for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the accounts in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the accounts unless they are satisfied that they 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 accounts, the directors are required to:
●	select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
●	make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
●	prepare the accounts 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 accounts comply with the Companies Act 2006. They 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.

Disclosure of information to auditors

Each person who was a director at the time this report was approved confirms that:
●	so far as he is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company's auditor is unaware; and
●	he has taken all the steps that he ought to have taken as a director in order to make himself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company's auditor is aware of that information.

Small company provisions

This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

This report was approved by the board on 9 September 2021 and signed on its behalf.

Sven Wagner

Director

Adam Hall Ltd

Independent auditor's report

to the members of Adam Hall Ltd

Opinion

We have audited the accounts of Adam Hall Ltd (the 'company') for the year ended 30 June 2021 which comprise the Profit and Loss Account, the Balance Sheet, the Statement of Changes in Equity and notes to the accounts, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including FRS 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland' (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
In our opinion the accounts:
●	give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 30 June 2021 and of its profit for the year then ended;
●	have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice;
●	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 Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the accounts section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the accounts 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 accounts, we have concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the accounts 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 accounts 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 accounts and our auditor’s report thereon. The directors are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the accounts 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 accounts 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 accounts 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.
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 accounts are prepared is consistent with the accounts; 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 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 accounts 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 accounts 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, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the accounts 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 accounts that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the accounts, 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.

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the accounts

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the accounts as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report 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 accounts.

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:

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the accounts is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.
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 an auditor's report 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.
John Ward
(Senior Statutory Auditor)
for and on behalf of
Ward & Co		307 Euston Road
Statutory Auditor		LONDON
15 September 2021		NW1 3AW

Adam Hall Ltd
Profit and Loss Account
for the year ended 30 June 2021
						2021		2020
£							£
Turnover						177,960		285,587
Administrative expenses						(226,362)		(285,311)
Other operating income						71,262		39,712
Operating profit						22,860		39,988
Interest receivable						26,072		20,012
Interest payable						(8)		(5)
Profit before taxation						48,924		59,995
Tax on profit						(22,277)		(17,279)
Profit for the financial year						26,647		42,716

Adam Hall Ltd
Registered number:			01388340
Balance Sheet
as at 30 June 2021
Notes				2021			2020
£					£
Fixed assets
Tangible assets	4			2,710			3,955
Current assets
Debtors	5		440,479			378,136
Cash at bank and in hand			21,038			50,760
			461,517			428,896
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year	6		(49,298)			(44,569)
Net current assets				412,219			384,327
Total assets less current liabilities				414,929			388,282
Net assets				414,929			388,282
Capital and reserves
Called up share capital				149,882			149,882
Revaluation reserve	7			30,787			30,787
Profit and loss account				234,260			207,613
Shareholders' funds				414,929			388,282
The accounts have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the special provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime. The profit and loss account has not been delivered to the Registrar of Companies.
Sven Wagner
Director
Approved by the board on 9 September 2021

Adam Hall Ltd
Statement of Changes in Equity
for the year ended 30 June 2021
Share			Capital		Profit		Total
capital			Redemption		and loss
reserve					account
£			£		£		£
At 1 July 2019		149,882		30,787		164,897		345,566
Profit for the financial year						42,716		42,716
At 30 June 2020		149,882		30,787		207,613		388,282
At 1 July 2020		149,882		30,787		207,613		388,282
Profit for the financial year						26,647		26,647
At 30 June 2021		149,882		30,787		234,260		414,929

Adam Hall Ltd
Notes to the Accounts
for the year ended 30 June 2021
1	Accounting policies
	Basis of preparation
	The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with FRS 102, The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (as applied to small entities by section 1A of the standard).
	Going Concern
	The accounts have been prepared on a going concern basis. The parent company, Adam Hall GmbH, a company incorporated in Germany, has indicated its willingness to provide on going financial support to Adam Hall Limited. The directors have reviewed the financial resources available to the company. The directors consider that with the ongoing financial support from the parent company, these resources are sufficient to enable the company to meet its liabilities as they fall due. Therefore, the directors consider it appropriate that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis.
	Turnover
	Turnover comprises revenue recognised by the company in respect of money received and/or receivable for sales assistance provided to Adam Hall GmbH, for selling and other costs incurred in UK, during the year, exclusive of Value Added Tax and trade discounts. Turnover is recognised every month it is incurred.Turnover also includes Customer based Commissions based on sales value by UK Sales staff.
	Tangible fixed assets
	Tangible fixed assets are measured at cost less accumulative depreciation and any accumulative impairment losses. Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets, other than freehold land, at rates calculated to write off the cost, less estimated residual value, of each asset evenly over its expected useful life, as follows:
	Equipment and furniture			25% Straight line
	Debtors
	Short term debtors are measured at transaction price (which is usually the invoice price), less any impairment losses for bad and doubtful debts. Loans and other financial assets are initially recognised at transaction price including any transaction costs and subsequently measured at amortised cost determined using the effective interest method, less any impairment losses for bad and doubtful debts.
	Creditors
	Short term creditors are measured at transaction price (which is usually the invoice price). Loans and other financial liabilities are initially recognised at transaction price net of any transaction costs and subsequently measured at amortised cost determined using the effective interest method.
	Taxation
	A current tax liability is recognised for the tax payable on the taxable profit of the current and past periods. A current tax asset is recognised in respect of a tax loss that can be carried back to recover tax paid in a previous period. Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences between the recognition of income and expenses in the financial statements and their inclusion in tax assessments. 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. Deferred tax is measured using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference, except for revalued land and investment property where the tax rate that applies to the sale of the asset is used. Current and deferred tax assets and liabilities are not discounted.
	Provisions
	Provisions (ie liabilities of uncertain timing or amount) are recognised when there is an obligation at the reporting date as a result of a past event, it is probable that economic benefit will be transferred to settle the obligation and the amount of the obligation can be estimated reliably.
	Foreign currency translation
	Transactions in foreign currencies are initially recognised at the rate of exchange ruling at the date of the transaction. At the end of each reporting period foreign currency monetary items are translated at the closing rate of exchange. Non-monetary items that are measured at historical cost are translated at the rate ruling at the date of the transaction. All differences are charged to profit or loss.
	Leased assets
	A lease is classified as a finance lease if it transfers substantially all the risks and rewards incidental to ownership. All other leases are classified as operating leases. The rights of use and obligations under finance leases are initially recognised as assets and liabilities at amounts equal to the fair value of the leased assets or, if lower, the present value of the minimum lease payments. Minimum lease payments are apportioned between the finance charge and the reduction in the outstanding liability using the effective interest rate method. The finance charge is allocated to each period during the lease so as to produce a constant periodic rate of interest on the remaining balance of the liability. Leased assets are depreciated in accordance with the company's policy for tangible fixed assets. If there is no reasonable certainty that ownership will be obtained at the end of the lease term, the asset is depreciated over the lower of the lease term and its useful life. Operating lease payments are recognised as an expense on a straight line basis over the lease term.
	Pensions
	Contributions to defined contribution plans are expensed in the period to which they relate.
2	Audit information
	The audit report is unqualified.
	Senior statutory auditor:	John Ward
	Firm:	Ward & Co
	Date of audit report:	15 September 2021
3	Employees					2021		2020
Number							Number
	Average number of persons employed by the company					3		3
4	Tangible fixed assets
								Equipment & Furniture
£
	Cost
	At 1 July 2020							8,814
	At 30 June 2021							8,814
	Depreciation
	At 1 July 2020							4,859
	Charge for the year							1,245
	At 30 June 2021							6,104
	Net book value
	At 30 June 2021							2,710
	At 30 June 2020							3,955
5	Debtors					2021		2020
£							£
	Amounts owed by group undertakings and undertakings in which the company has a participating interest					429,223		351,292
	Other debtors					11,256		26,844
						440,479		378,136
6	Creditors: amounts falling due within one year					2021		2020
£							£
	Trade creditors					514		8,437
	Taxation and social security costs					39,277		26,594
	Other creditors					9,507		9,538
						49,298		44,569
7	Capital redemption reserve					2021		2020
£							£
	At 1 July 2020					30,787		30,787
	At 30 June 2021					30,787		30,787
8	Pension commitments
	The assets of the pension scheme are held separately from those of the company in an independently administered fund. There were no outstanding or prepaid contributions at the year end.
9	Related party transactions					2021		2020
£							£
	Adam Hall GmbH
	(Parent Company)
	Customer Based Commissions					50,639		62,732
	Sales Assistance Provided					127,321		222,855
	Interest Receivable					26,072		20,012
	The payment for Customer based Commissions, Sales Assistance provided and interest receivable, were made to the subsidiary company, Adam Hall Ltd, by the parent company, Adam Hall GmbH, Adam-Hall-Straße 1, 61267 Neu-Anspach, Germany
	Amount due to Adam Hall Ltd at the financial year ended					429,223		351,292
#	Controlling party
	The company's immediate and ultimate parent undertaking is Adam Hall GmbH, a company incorporated in Germany. The company's ultimate controlling parties are Mr D Kirby, AH JaMa GmbH and AH Pietschmann GmbH.
11	Other information
	Adam Hall Ltd is a private company limited by shares and incorporated in England. Its registered office is:
	The Seedbed Centre Vanguard Way
	Shoeburyness
	Southend-On-Sea
	Essex
	SS3 9QY