Howells Associates Limited - Limited company - abbreviated - 11.6

Howells Associates Limited - Limited company - abbreviated - 11.6


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REGISTERED NUMBER: 03404361 (England and Wales)















Abbreviated Unaudited Accounts for the Year Ended 31 December 2015

for

Howells Associates Limited

Howells Associates Limited (Registered number: 03404361)






Contents of the Abbreviated Accounts
for the Year Ended 31 December 2015




Page

Company Information 1

Abbreviated Balance Sheet 2

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts 3

Howells Associates Limited

Company Information
for the Year Ended 31 December 2015







DIRECTORS: P T Howells
A B Hall
C O Howells
Mrs J A Bowles
S Hurley
G Ward-Thompson





SECRETARY: Mrs A Howells





REGISTERED OFFICE: Cavendish House
32 Freemans Way
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
HG3 1DH





REGISTERED NUMBER: 03404361 (England and Wales)





ACCOUNTANT: Clarkson & Co.
Centre of Excellence
Hope Park
Trevor Foster Way
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD5 8HH

Howells Associates Limited (Registered number: 03404361)

Abbreviated Balance Sheet
31 December 2015

2015 2014
Notes £    £    £    £   
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets 2 1,015 2,802
Investments 3 150,000 150,000
151,015 152,802

CURRENT ASSETS
Stocks 14,792 8,757
Debtors 4 484,390 349,408
Cash at bank and in hand 171,516 134,895
670,698 493,060
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 409,879 306,526
NET CURRENT ASSETS 260,819 186,534
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES

411,834

339,336

CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share capital 5 100 100
Profit and loss account 411,734 339,236
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS 411,834 339,336

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 December 2015.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2015 in accordance with Section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for:
(a)ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies
Act 2006 and
(b)preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of
each financial year and of its profit or loss for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections
394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial
statements, so far as applicable to the company.

The abbreviated accounts have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.


The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors on 27 July 2016 and were signed on its behalf by:





P T Howells - Director


Howells Associates Limited (Registered number: 03404361)

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts
for the Year Ended 31 December 2015

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Accounting convention
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the
Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April 2008).

Turnover
Turnover represents net invoiced sales of services, excluding value added tax.

Tangible fixed assets
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life.

Furniture and equipment - 25% on cost
Computer equipment - 25% on cost

Stocks
Work in progress is valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value.

Cost includes all direct expenditure and an appropriate proportion of fixed and variable overheads.

Deferred tax
Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the balance
sheet date.

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 the profit and loss account in the period to which they relate.

2. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Total
£   
COST
At 1 January 2015 258,391
Additions 577
At 31 December 2015 258,968
DEPRECIATION
At 1 January 2015 255,589
Charge for year 2,364
At 31 December 2015 257,953
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 December 2015 1,015
At 31 December 2014 2,802

Howells Associates Limited (Registered number: 03404361)

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts - continued
for the Year Ended 31 December 2015

3. FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS
Investments
other
than
loans
£   
COST
At 1 January 2015
and 31 December 2015 150,000
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 December 2015 150,000
At 31 December 2014 150,000

4. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE AFTER MORE THAN ONE
YEAR

The aggregate total of debtors falling due after more than one year is £ 0 (2014 - £ 8,155 )

5. CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL

Allotted, issued and fully paid:
Number: Class: Nominal 2015 2014
value: £    £   
400 Ordinary 25p 100 100

6. ULTIMATE PARENT COMPANY

Moorland Cavendish Group Limited is regarded by the directors as being the company's ultimate parent
company.