PALAEOECOLOGY_RESEARCH_SE - Accounts

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the financial statements of Palaeoecology Research Services Limited for the year ended 31 July 2023, which comprise the balance sheet, from the company’s accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.

As a practising member firm of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at https://www.accaglobal.com/gb/en/member/standards/rules-and-standards/rulebook.html.

This report is made solely to the board of directors of Palaeoecology Research Services Limited, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the financial statements of Palaeoecology Research Services Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the board of directors of Palaeoecology Research Services Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with the requirements of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants as detailed at https://www.accaglobal.com/content/dam/ACCA_Global/Technical/fact/technical-factsheet-163.pdf. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than Palaeoecology Research Services Limited and its board of directors as a body, for our work or for this report.

We have carried out this engagement in accordance with Technical Factsheet 163 Audit Exempt Companies - ACCA Accounts Preparation Report issued by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and have complied with the ethical guidance laid down by the Association relating to members undertaking the compilation of financial statements.

It is your duty to ensure that Palaeoecology Research Services Limited has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory financial statements that comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006. You consider that Palaeoecology Research Services Limited 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 financial statements of Palaeoecology Research Services Limited. 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 financial statements.

The average number of persons, including directors, employed by the company during the year was as follows:

At the balance sheet date there was a loan balance due to the director of £58,338 (2022: £44,958). The loan is unsecured, interest free and repayable on demand.

Palaeoecology Research Services Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is Unit 4, National Industrial Estate, Bontoft Avenue, Kingston upon Hull, Humberside, HU5 4HF.

For the year ended 31 July 2023 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The director acknowledges his responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of financial statements.

The member has not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year in question in accordance with section 476.

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the micro-entity provisions and in accordance with FRS 105 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable to the Micro-entities Regime' and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

The director of the company has elected not to include a copy of the profit and loss account within the financial statements.true