Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited - Period Ending 2022-03-31

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Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited



Strategic Report, Report of the Directors and Financial Statements

for the Year Ended

31 March 2022

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Contents

Company Information

1

Strategic Report

2 to 3

Director's Report

4

Statement of Director's Responsibilities

5

Independent Auditor's Report

6 to 9

Profit and Loss Account

10

Balance Sheet

11

Statement of Changes in Equity

12

Statement of Cash Flows

13

Notes to the Financial Statements

14 to 26

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Company Information

Registered Number: 00466434

Director

AD Pulham

Company secretary

Mrs KH Pulham

Registered office

Bourton Business Park
Bourton-on-the-Water
Gloucestershire
GL54 2HQ

Accountants

Chamberlains (Accountancy & Taxation) Limited
Ground Floor
5 The Pavilions
Cranmore Drive, Shirley
Solihull
B90 4SB

Auditors

Hazlewoods LLP
Staverton Court
Staverton
Cheltenham
GL51 0UX

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Strategic Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

The director presents his strategic report for the year ended 31 March 2022.

Principal activity

The principal activity of the company is the hire of coaches, the provision of local bus services and the provision of coach maintenance services.

Fair review of the business

The results for the year which are set out in the profit and loss account, show a pre-tax (loss)/profit of £(196,537) (2021: £734,111).

The company had tangible fixed assets including freehold land and buildings, equipment, coaches and vehicles valued in the financial statements at £5,443,371 (2021: £5,323,796), trade debtors of £226,338 (2021: £300,802) and trade creditors were £432,917 (2021: £562,629).

Given the current economic conditions as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, the directors consider that the business has performed adequately during the year and the financial position at the year end is satisfactory.

Given the nature of the business, the company's directors are of the opinion that key performance indicators are important. The group uses a number of indicators to monitor and improve the development, performance and position of the business. Indicators are reviewed and altered to meet changes in the internal and external environments.

Principal risks and uncertainties

The director regularly appraises the company's exposure to risk.

A key risk is ensuring compliance with appropriate regulations. The Company is required to comply with regulations imposed by the driver and vehicle standards agency (DVSA). A continued commitment to robust auditing via an external agency ensures the business maintains high standards of compliance with current legislation in all areas. Future ideas and improvements are developed through membership of CoachMarque and The Guild of British Coach Operators which provide a platform for sharing the excellent practice taking place within the company.

The Company considers working capital management, particularly cash flow, to be key in management of the Company. Liquidity risk is the risk that the company does not have sufficient liquid assets to meet its obligations as they fall due. Liquidity is maintained at a prudent level and the Company ensures there is an adequate liquidity buffer to cover contingencies. The company monitors cash flow as part of its day to day control procedures.

The Company's policy in respect of credit risk is to require appropriate credit checks on potential customers and regularly review existing customers before sales are made. Current borrowings are subject to floating rate agreements. Interest rate risk is monitored and if appropriate, fixed rate funding may be considered.

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Strategic Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

The directors believe that they have the ability to react to changes in rules and guidelines to ensure the continuation of the business in a safe and considered manner.

Approved by the director on 10 February 2023 and signed on its behalf by:

.........................................
Mrs KH Pulham
Company secretary

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Director's Report for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

The director presents his report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2022.

Director of the company

The director who held office during the year was as follows:

AD Pulham

Financial instruments

Financial assets comprise cash at bank and in hand, trade debtors and other debtors; these are initially recorded at cost on the date they originate and are subsequently recorded at cost less any impairment.

The company considers evidence of impairment for all individual trade and other debtors and any subsequent impairment is recognised in profit or loss.

Future developments

The business maintains a commitment to reinvestment particularly in respect of coaches and the development of its team of people. In this way the directors are confident that continued profitable growth can be achieved in future years.

The business continues to take an active role in the local community by supporting other local businesses and charities and aims to retain staff by fostering a welcoming, supportive, caring and professional environment for all personnel.

Going concern

In accordance with Financial Reporting Council's 'Going Concern and Liquidity Risk; Guidance for Directors of UK Companies 2006', the directors of all companies are now required to provide disclosures regarding the adoption of going concern basis of accounting.

The directors believe that the company has sufficient resources to continue in operational existence for the forseeable future and have continued to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements. However, because not all future events or conditions can be predicted, this statement is not a guarantee as to the company's ability to continue as a going concern.

Disclosure of information to the auditors

The director has taken 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 auditors are aware of that information. The director confirms that there is no relevant information that he knows of and of which he knows the auditors are unaware.

Reappointment of auditors

Hazlewoods LLP have expressed their willingness to continue in office.

Approved by the director on 10 February 2023 and signed on its behalf by:

.........................................
Mrs KH Pulham
Company secretary

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Statement of Director's Responsibilities

The director acknowledges his responsibilities for preparing the Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the director to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the director has elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the director must not approve the financial statements unless he is 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 financial statements, the director is required to:

select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;

make judgements and accounting 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 director is 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 him to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. He is 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.

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 March 2022, which comprise the Profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet, Statement of Changes in Equity, Statement of Cash Flows, 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).

In our opinion the financial statements:

give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 March 2022 and of its loss 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 Auditor’s 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 director’s 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 original financial statements were 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 directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. 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.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, 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 audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. 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.

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Opinion on other matter 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 Strategic Report and Director's Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and

the Strategic Report and Director's Report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of our knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Strategic Report and the Director's 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.

Responsibilities of the director

As explained more fully in the Statement of Director's Responsibilities [set out on page 5], the director is 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 director determines 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 director is 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 director either intends to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Auditor’s 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 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 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:

Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that material misstatements in the financial statements may not be detected, even though the audit is properly planned and performed in accordance with the ISAs (UK).

In identifying and assessing risks of material misstatement in respect of fraud, including irregularities and non-compliance with laws and regulations, our procedures included the following:

• We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks applicable to the group and parent company financial statements or that had a fundamental effect on the operations of the group and parent company. We determined that the most significant laws and regulations included United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice, UK Companies Act 2006 and taxation laws;

• We understood how the group and parent company is complying with those legal and regulatory frameworks by making enquiries of the management and those responsible for legal and compliance procedures.

• We assessed the susceptibility of the group's and parent company's financial statements to material misstatement, including how fraud might occur. Audit procedures performed by the engagement team included:

• identifying and assessing the design effectiveness of controls management has in place to prevent and detect fraud;
• understanding how those charged with governance considered and addressed the potential for override of controls or other inappropriate influence over the financial reporting process;
• challenging assumptions and judgements made by management in its significant accounting estimates; and
• identifying and testing journal entries, in particular any journal entries with unusual characteristics.
 

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

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.

Use of the 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.

......................................
Ryan Hancock (Senior Statutory Auditor)
For and on behalf of Hazlewoods LLP, Statutory Auditor

Staverton Court
Staverton
Cheltenham
GL51 0UX

10 February 2023

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Profit and Loss Account for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

Note

2022
£

2021
£

Turnover

3

6,724,459

4,608,036

Cost of sales

 

(6,371,470)

(4,481,966)

Gross profit

 

352,989

126,070

Administrative expenses

 

(966,629)

(754,335)

Other operating income

4

505,655

1,455,988

Operating (loss)/profit

5

(107,985)

827,723

Interest payable and similar expenses

6

(88,552)

(93,612)

(Loss)/profit before tax

 

(196,537)

734,111

Taxation

9

1,077

(149,267)

(Loss)/profit for the financial year

 

(195,460)

584,844

The above results were derived from continuing operations.

The company has no other comprehensive income in the current or preceding year.

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

(Registration number: 00466434)
Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2022

Note

2022
£

2021
£

Fixed assets

 

Tangible assets

10

5,443,371

5,323,796

Current assets

 

Stocks

11

66,449

20,181

Debtors

12

1,102,344

1,050,798

Cash at bank and in hand

 

498,231

1,543,792

 

1,667,024

2,614,771

Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year

13

(2,060,136)

(2,435,009)

Net current (liabilities)/assets

 

(393,112)

179,762

Total assets less current liabilities

 

5,050,259

5,503,558

Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year

13

(1,914,581)

(2,193,363)

Provisions for liabilities

14

(502,583)

(431,645)

Net assets

 

2,633,095

2,878,550

Capital and reserves

 

Called up share capital

16

3,334

3,334

Capital redemption reserve

6,667

6,667

Profit and loss account

2,623,094

2,868,549

Total equity

 

2,633,095

2,878,550

Approved and authorised by the director on 10 February 2023
 

.........................................

AD Pulham

Director

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Statement of Changes in Equity for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

Share capital
£

Capital redemption reserve
£

Profit and loss account
£

Total
£

At 1 April 2021

3,334

6,667

2,868,549

2,878,550

Loss for the year

-

-

(195,460)

(195,460)

Dividends

-

-

(49,995)

(49,995)

At 31 March 2022

3,334

6,667

2,623,094

2,633,095

Share capital
£

Capital redemption reserve
£

Profit and loss account
£

Total
£

At 1 April 2020

3,334

6,667

2,333,700

2,343,701

Profit for the year

-

-

584,844

584,844

Dividends

-

-

(49,995)

(49,995)

At 31 March 2021

3,334

6,667

2,868,549

2,878,550

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Statement of Cash Flows for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

Note

2022
£

2021
£

Cash flows from operating activities

(Loss)/profit for the year

 

(195,460)

584,844

Adjustments to cash flows from non-cash items

 

Depreciation and amortisation

5

1,130,917

1,089,973

Loss/(profit) on disposal of tangible assets

15,572

(24,273)

Finance costs

6

88,552

93,612

Income tax expense

9

(1,077)

149,267

 

1,038,504

1,893,423

Working capital adjustments

 

(Increase)/decrease in stocks

11

(46,268)

9,607

Decrease/(increase) in trade debtors

12

18,454

(233,545)

(Decrease)/increase in trade creditors

13

(223,998)

435,540

Cash generated from operations

 

786,692

2,105,025

Income taxes paid

9

(70,000)

-

Net cash flow from operating activities

 

716,692

2,105,025

Cash flows from investing activities

 

Acquisitions of tangible assets

(925,852)

(1,277,772)

Proceeds from sale of tangible assets

 

59,788

283,500

Net cash flows from investing activities

 

(866,064)

(994,272)

Cash flows from financing activities

 

Interest paid

6

(88,552)

(93,612)

Repayment of bank borrowing

 

(74,960)

462,423

Payments to finance lease creditors

 

(682,682)

(167,977)

Dividends paid

18

(49,995)

(49,995)

Net cash flows from financing activities

 

(896,189)

150,839

Net (decrease)/increase in cash and cash equivalents

 

(1,045,561)

1,261,592

Cash and cash equivalents at 1 April

 

1,543,792

282,200

Cash and cash equivalents at 31 March

 

498,231

1,543,792

Reconciliation to Cash and cash equivalents category (adjusted for overdrafts)

Cash and short-term deposits

 

498,231

1,543,792

 

498,231

1,543,792

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

1

General information

The company is a private company limited by share capital, incorporated in England and Wales.

The address of its registered office is:
Bourton Business Park
Bourton-on-the-Water
Gloucestershire
GL54 2HQ

2

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 were prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland'.

Basis of preparation

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.

The presentational currency of the financial statements is Pounds Sterling, being the functional currency of the primary economic environment in which the company operates. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest Pound.

Going concern

The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. However, because not all future events or conditions can be predicted, this statement is not a guarantee as to the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

In assessing whether the going concern basis is appropriate, the directors take into account all available information about the future, which is at least, but not limited to, 12 months from the date of signing these financial statements.

The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern basis, which the directors believe to be appropriate. The directors continue to monitor the business’ requirements and have made plans which underpin the going concern basis for the business.

As the date of approval of these financial statements the directors believe that the business will continue to operate successfully for the foreseeable future and be able to meet its liabilities as and when they fall due.

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

Judgements

No significant judgements have been made by management in preparing these financial statements.

The Directors are required to make judgements regarding: the recoverability of trade debtor balances; and the estimated useful life of tangible fixed assets.

Key sources of estimation uncertainty

In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the director is required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised if the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods if the revision affects both current and future periods.

Revenue recognition

Turnover comprises the fair value of the consideration received or receivable for the provision of services in the ordinary course of the company’s activities. Turnover is shown net of sales/value added tax, returns, rebates and discounts.

The company recognises revenue when:
The amount of revenue can be reliably measured;
it is probable that future economic benefits will flow to the entity;
and specific criteria have been met for each of the company's activities.

Government grants

Government grants are recognised based on the accrual model and are measured at the fair value of the asset received or receivable. Grants are classified as relating either to revenue or to assets. Grants relating to revenue are recognised in income over the period in which the related costs are recognised. Grants relating to assets are recognised over the expected useful life of the asset. Where part of a grant relating to an asset is deferred, it is recognised as deferred income.

Tax

The tax expense for the period comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in profit or loss, except that a change attributable to an item of income or expense recognised as other comprehensive income is also recognised directly in other comprehensive income.

The current tax charge is calculated on the basis of tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date in the countries where the company operates and generates taxable income.

Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences between taxable profits and profits reported in the financial statements.

Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised when 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.

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

Tangible assets

Tangible assets are stated in the statement of financial position 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 charged so as to write off the cost of assets, other than land and properties under construction over their estimated useful lives, as follows:

Asset class

Depreciation method and rate

Freehold Buildings

3% straight line

Plant and office equipment

10%-20% reducing balance

Coaches

20% reducing balance

Motor Vehicles

20% reducing balance

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.

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 company will not be able to collect all amounts due according to the original terms of the receivables.

Stocks

Stocks are stated at the lower of cost and estimated selling price less costs to complete and sell. Cost is determined using the first-in, first-out method.

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 company 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.

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

Borrowings

Interest-bearing borrowings are initially recorded at fair value, net of transaction costs. Interest-bearing borrowings are subsequently carried at amortised cost, with the difference between the proceeds, net of transaction costs, and the amount due on redemption being recognised as a charge to the Profit and Loss Account over the period of the relevant borrowing.

Interest expense is recognised on the basis of the effective interest method and is included in interest payable and similar charges.

Borrowings are classified as current liabilities unless the company has an unconditional right to defer settlement of the liability for at least twelve months after the reporting date.

Leases

Leases in which substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership are retained by the lessor are classified as operating leases. Payments made under operating leases are charged to profit or loss on a straight-line basis over the period of the lease. Leases are classified as finance leases whenever the terms of the lease transfer substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to the lessee.

Assets held under finance leases are recognised at the lower of their fair value at inception of the lease and the present value of the minimum lease payments. These assets are depreciated on a straight-line basis over the shorter of the useful life of the asset and the lease term. The corresponding liability to the lessor is included in the Balance Sheet as a finance lease obligation.

Lease payments are apportioned between finance costs in the Profit and Loss Account and reduction of the lease obligation so as to achieve a constant periodic rate of interest on the remaining balance of the liability.

Share capital

Ordinary shares are classified as equity. Equity instruments are measured at the fair value of the cash or other resources received or receivable, net of the direct costs of issuing the equity instruments. If payment is deferred and the time value of money is material, the initial measurement is on a present value basis.

Dividends

Dividend distribution to the company’s shareholders is recognised as a liability in the financial statements in the reporting period in which the dividends are declared.

Defined contribution pension obligation

A defined contribution plan is a pension plan under which fixed contributions are paid into a pension fund and the company has no legal or constructive obligation to pay further contributions even if the fund does not hold sufficient assets to pay all employees the benefits relating to employee service in the current and prior periods.

Contributions to defined contribution plans are recognised as employee benefit expense when they are due. If contribution payments exceed the contribution due for service, the excess is recognised as a prepayment.

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

Financial instruments

Financial instruments are classified and accounted for according to the substance of the contractual arrangement, as financial assets, financial liabilities or equity instruments. An equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of the Company after deducting all of its liabilities. Where shares are issued, any component that creates a financial liability of the company is presented as a liability on the balance sheet, The corresponding dividends relating to the liability component are charged as interest expenses in the profit and loss account.

Assets, other than those measured at fair value, are assessed for indicators of impairment at each balance sheet date. If there is objective evidence of impairment, an impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss as described below.

A non-financial asset is impaired where there is objective evidence that, as a result of one or more events that occurred after initial recognition, the estimated recoverable value of the asset has been reduced. The recoverable amount of an asset is the higher of its fair value less costs to sell and its value in use.

For financial assets carried at amortised cost, the amount of an impairment is the difference between the asset’s carrying amount and the present value of estimated future cash flows, discounted at the financial asset’s original effective interest rate.

 

3

Revenue

Turn over is wholly a ttributable to the company's principal activity and arises entirely in the United Kingdom.
 

2022
 £

2021
 £

Sales

6,724,459

4,608,036

4

Other operating income

The analysis of the company's other operating income for the year is as follows:

2022
 £

2021
 £

Government grants

505,582

1,455,909

Miscellaneous other operating income

73

79

505,655

1,455,988

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

5

Operating loss

Arrived at after charging/(crediting)

2022
 £

2021
 £

Depreciation expense

1,130,917

1,089,973

Operating lease expense - plant and machinery

36,045

10,835

Operating lease expense - coaches

192,483

258,704

Loss/(profit) on disposal of property, plant and equipment

15,572

(24,273)

Audit of these financial statements

8,000

7,650

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

6

Interest payable and similar expenses

2022
 £

2021
 £

Interest on bank overdrafts and borrowings

27,387

26,763

Interest on obligations under finance leases and hire purchase contracts

61,165

66,849

88,552

93,612

7

Staff costs

The aggregate payroll costs (including director's remuneration) were as follows:

2022
 £

2021
 £

Wages and salaries

2,850,089

2,317,045

Social security costs

261,862

226,254

Other pension costs

53,629

52,304

3,165,580

2,595,603

The average number of persons employed by the company (including the director) during the year, analysed by category was as follows:

2022
No.

2021
No.

Direct labour

94

94

Administration

17

18

111

112

8

Director's remuneration

The director's remuneration for the year was as follows:

2022
 £

2021
 £

Remuneration

10,000

30,725

Contributions paid to money purchase schemes

113

1,224

10,113

31,949

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

9

Taxation

Tax charged/(credited) in the income statement

2022
 £

2021
 £

Current taxation

UK corporation tax

(72,015)

72,015

Deferred taxation

Arising from changes in tax rates and laws

70,938

77,252

Tax (receipt)/expense in the income statement

(1,077)

149,267

The tax on profit before tax for the year is higher than the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK (2021 - higher than the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK) of 19% (2021 - 19.5%).

The differences are reconciled below:

2022
 £

2021
 £

(Loss)/profit before tax

(196,537)

734,111

Corporation tax at standard rate

(37,342)

143,152

Deferred tax expense (credit) relating to changes in tax rates or laws

109,553

-

Increase (decrease) in UK and foreign current tax from adjustment for prior periods

(72,015)

-

Other tax effects for reconciliation between accounting profit and tax expense (income)

(1,273)

6,115

Total tax (credit)/charge

(1,077)

149,267

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

10

Tangible assets

Land and buildings
£

Plant and machinery
£

Motor vehicles
 £

Coaches
 £

Total
£

Cost or valuation

At 1 April 2021

1,297,154

476,693

141,362

9,531,251

11,446,460

Additions

-

45,852

-

1,280,000

1,325,852

Disposals

-

-

(908)

(367,041)

(367,949)

At 31 March 2022

1,297,154

522,545

140,454

10,444,210

12,404,363

Depreciation

At 1 April 2021

242,283

316,158

56,364

5,507,860

6,122,665

Charge for the year

27,089

45,251

16,902

1,041,675

1,130,917

Eliminated on disposal

-

-

(420)

(292,170)

(292,590)

At 31 March 2022

269,372

361,409

72,846

6,257,365

6,960,992

Carrying amount

At 31 March 2022

1,027,782

161,136

67,608

4,186,845

5,443,371

At 31 March 2021

1,054,871

160,536

84,998

4,023,391

5,323,796

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

Assets held under finance leases and hire purchase contracts

The net book value of tangible fixed assets includes assets held under finance leases or hire purchase contracts of £2,306,394 (2021 - £2,422,996) and depreciation charges of £576,602 (2021 - £605,749).

11

Stocks

2022
 £

2021
 £

Consumables

66,449

20,181

12

Debtors

Note

2022
 £

2021
 £

Trade debtors

 

226,338

300,802

Other debtors

 

564,630

525,987

Prepayments

 

241,376

224,009

Income tax asset

9

70,000

-

Total current trade and other debtors

 

1,102,344

1,050,798

13

Creditors

Note

2022
 £

2021
 £

Due within one year

 

Loans and borrowings

15

1,233,383

1,312,243

Trade creditors

 

432,917

562,629

Amounts due to related parties

20

146,519

179,524

Social security and other taxes

 

60,208

50,903

Deferred Income

 

173,309

243,695

Accrued expenses

 

13,800

14,000

Income tax liability

9

-

72,015

 

2,060,136

2,435,009

Due after one year

 

Loans and borrowings

15

1,914,581

2,193,363

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

14

Deferred tax and other provisions

Deferred tax
£

At 1 April 2021

431,645

Increase (decrease) in existing provisions

70,938

At 31 March 2022

502,583

15

Loans and borrowings

2022
 £

2021
 £

Current loans and borrowings

Bank loans

74,239

73,063

Hire purchase liabilities

559,144

639,180

Other borrowings

600,000

600,000

1,233,383

1,312,243

2022
 £

2021
 £

Non-current loans and borrowings

Bank loans

955,044

1,031,180

Hire purchase liabilities

959,537

1,162,183

1,914,581

2,193,363

Included in the loans and borrowings are the following amounts due after more than five years:

2022
 £

2021
 £

After more than five years by instalments

360,065

446,294

-

-

The secured bank loan is being repaid on a monthly basis from May 2013 and will expire in 2033. Interest is charged on the bank loan at the rate of 2.56% above the base rate. There is a first legal charge over the company's premises and an unlimited debenture incorporating a fixed and floating charge by way of security on the loan.

Finance lease obligations are secured against the assets to which they relate. Other loans are unsecured, do not accrue interest and are repayable on demand.

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

16

Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

 

2022

2021

 

No.

£

No.

£

Ordinary Shares of £1 each

3,333

3,333

3,333

3,333

Ordinary 'A' Shares of £1 each

1

1

1

1

 

3,334

3,334

3,334

3,334

17

Obligations under leases and hire purchase contracts

Operating leases

The total of future minimum lease payments is as follows:

2022
£

2021
£

Not later than one year

223,322

192,054

Later than one year and not later than five years

476,009

137,400

699,331

329,454

18

Dividends

Final dividends paid

   

2022
£

 

2021
£

Final dividend of £15.00 per each Ordinary Shares

 

49,995

 

49,995

         

The dividends are payable to the company director.

19

Commitments

Pension commitments

The Company operates a defined contributions pension scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the Company in an independently administered fund. The pension cost charge represents contributions payable by the Company to the fund and amounted to £53,629 (2021 - £52,304). Contributions totalling £4,851 (2021 - £4,049) were payable to the fund at the reporting date and are included in creditors.

 

Pulham & Sons (Coaches) Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2022

20

Related party transactions

Transactions with directors

2022

At 1 April 2021
£

Advances to directors
£

Repayments by director
£

At 31 March 2022
£

AD Pulham

Directors Current Account

179,524

(83,000)

49,995

146,519

         
       

 

2021

At 1 April 2020
£

Advances to directors
£

Repayments by director
£

At 31 March 2021
£

AD Pulham

Directors Current Account

172,128

(42,599)

49,995

179,524

         
       

 

Summary of transactions with other related parties

Included in other debtors is a balance of £52,000 (2021 - £52,000) due from Scarlet Enterprises
Limited, a company in which AD Pulham is a director.

Included in creditors is a balance of £300,000 (2021 - £300,000) due to Mrs KH Pulham.

Included in creditors is a balance of £300,000 (2021 - £300,000) due to CJ Adams.

21

Parent and ultimate parent undertaking

The ultimate controlling party is AD Pulham.