First City (Holdings) Limited - Abbreviated accounts 16.3

First City (Holdings) Limited - Abbreviated accounts 16.3


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REGISTERED NUMBER: 00589616 (England and Wales)















Abbreviated Accounts for the Year Ended 30 April 2016

for

First City (Holdings) Limited

First City (Holdings) Limited (Registered number: 00589616)






Contents of the Abbreviated Accounts
for the Year Ended 30 April 2016




Page

Company Information 1

Abbreviated Balance Sheet 2

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts 3

First City (Holdings) Limited

Company Information
for the Year Ended 30 April 2016







DIRECTORS: C D G Bywater
Mrs J E Bywater





SECRETARY: Miss L Callow





REGISTERED OFFICE: First City House
19 Waterloo Road
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV1 4DY





REGISTERED NUMBER: 00589616 (England and Wales)





ACCOUNTANTS: Haines Watts
Keepers Lane
The Wergs
Wolverhampton
West Midlands
WV6 8UA

First City (Holdings) Limited (Registered number: 00589616)

Abbreviated Balance Sheet
30 April 2016

2016 2015
Notes £    £    £    £   
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets 2 653,744 346,116
Investments 3 2,855 2,855
656,599 348,971

CURRENT ASSETS
Stocks 216,409 174,704
Debtors 14,747 13,858
Cash at bank 379,057 714,752
610,213 903,314
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 212,891 257,748
NET CURRENT ASSETS 397,322 645,566
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES

1,053,921

994,537

CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share capital 4 69,723 69,723
Profit and loss account 984,198 924,814
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS 1,053,921 994,537

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 30 April 2016.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 30 April 2016 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 25 October 2016 and were signed on its
behalf by:




C D G Bywater - Director


First City (Holdings) Limited (Registered number: 00589616)

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts
for the Year Ended 30 April 2016

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 January 2015).

Preparation of consolidated financial statements
The financial statements contain information about First City (Holdings) Limited as an individual
company and do not contain consolidated financial information as the parent of a group. The company
has taken the option under Section 398 of the Companies Act 2006 not to prepare consolidated
financial statements.

Turnover
The turnover shown in the profit and loss account is the amount receivable for the provision of goods
and services falling within the Company's activities, net of Value Added Tax, rebates and trade
discounts.
Turnover from the provision of goods and services are recognised in the accounting period in which
the Company obtains the right to consideration in exchange for its performance and when the amounts
to be recognised are fixed or determinable and collectability is reasonably assured.

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

Land and buildings - 2% on cost
Plant and machinery etc - 25% on reducing balance

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.

First City (Holdings) Limited (Registered number: 00589616)

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts - continued
for the Year Ended 30 April 2016

2. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Total
£   
COST
At 1 May 2015 620,319
Additions 319,176
Disposals (2,895 )
At 30 April 2016 936,600
DEPRECIATION
At 1 May 2015 274,203
Charge for year 11,548
Eliminated on disposal (2,895 )
At 30 April 2016 282,856
NET BOOK VALUE
At 30 April 2016 653,744
At 30 April 2015 346,116

3. FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS
Investment
other
than
loans
£   
COST
At 1 May 2015
and 30 April 2016 2,855
NET BOOK VALUE
At 30 April 2016 2,855
At 30 April 2015 2,855

The company's investments at the Balance Sheet date in the share capital of companies include the
following:

First City Limited
Nature of business: Land and property consultancy services.
%
Class of shares: holding
Ordinary shares 100.00
2016 2015
£    £   
Aggregate capital and reserves 242,273 231,083
Profit for the year 111,190 770

First City (Holdings) Limited (Registered number: 00589616)

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts - continued
for the Year Ended 30 April 2016

3. FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS - continued

First City Estate Agents and Town Planning Limited
Nature of business: Dormant
%
Class of shares: holding
Ordinary shares 100.00
2016 2015
£    £   
Aggregate capital and reserves 1,000 1,000

First City Property Consultants Limited
Nature of business: Dormant
%
Class of shares: holding
Ordinary shares 100.00
2016 2015
£    £   
Aggregate capital and reserves 2 2

First City Land Investments Limited
Nature of business: Dormant
%
Class of shares: holding
Ordinary shares 100.00
2016 2015
£    £   
Aggregate capital and reserves 2 2

First City Associates (1881) Limited
Nature of business: Dormant
%
Class of shares: holding
Ordinary shares 100.00
2016 2015
£    £   
Aggregate capital and reserves 1 1

4. CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL

Allotted, issued and fully paid:
Number: Class: Nominal 2016 2015
value: £    £   
69,723 Ordinary shares £1 69,723 69,723