Ernest Derricott Ltd - Abbreviated accounts 16.3

Ernest Derricott Ltd - Abbreviated accounts 16.3


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REGISTERED NUMBER: 00304354 (England and Wales)















Abbreviated Unaudited Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2016

for

Ernest Derricott Ltd

Ernest Derricott Ltd (Registered number: 00304354)






Contents of the Abbreviated Accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2016




Page

Company Information 1

Abbreviated Balance Sheet 2

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts 4

Ernest Derricott Ltd

Company Information
for the year ended 31 March 2016







DIRECTORS: Mrs R S Boyce-Derricott
Mrs T V Watson





SECRETARY: Mrs T V Watson





REGISTERED OFFICE: 5 Woolstitch Park
Clifton Road
Netherseal
Swadlincote
Derbyshire
DE12 8BT





REGISTERED NUMBER: 00304354 (England and Wales)





ACCOUNTANTS: Derek Young & Co
Chartered Accountants
Estate House
Evesham Street
Redditch
Worcestershire
B97 4HP

Ernest Derricott Ltd (Registered number: 00304354)

Abbreviated Balance Sheet
31 March 2016

2016 2015
Notes £    £    £    £   
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets 2 4,943 14,710
Investments 3 1,000 1,000
Investment property 4 4,602,824 4,500,000
4,608,767 4,515,710

CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors 479,754 482,493
Cash at bank and in hand 35,624 178,915
515,378 661,408
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 10,370 20,419
NET CURRENT ASSETS 505,008 640,989
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES

5,113,775

5,156,699

CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share capital 5 4,725 4,725
Revaluation reserve 3,382,054 3,490,517
Profit and loss account 1,726,996 1,661,457
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS 5,113,775 5,156,699

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2016.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 March 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.

Ernest Derricott Ltd (Registered number: 00304354)

Abbreviated Balance Sheet - continued
31 March 2016


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 19 December 2016 and were signed on its behalf by:





Mrs T V Watson - Director


Ernest Derricott Ltd (Registered number: 00304354)

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2016

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Accounting convention
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention as modified by the revaluation of certain
assets 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 Ernest Derricott Ltd 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
Turnover represents amounts derived from the provision of goods and services falling within the company's ordinary
activities, after deduction of trade discounts, value added tax and any other tax based on the amounts so derived.

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

Fixtures & fittings - 20% on reducing balance
Equipment - 33% on cost
Motor vehicles - 25% on reducing balance

Investment property
Investment property is shown at most recent valuation. Any aggregate surplus or deficit arising from changes in market
value is transferred to a revaluation reserve.

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 April 2015 42,092
Additions 299
Disposals (26,690 )
At 31 March 2016 15,701
DEPRECIATION
At 1 April 2015 27,382
Charge for year 1,621
Eliminated on disposal (18,245 )
At 31 March 2016 10,758
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 March 2016 4,943
At 31 March 2015 14,710

Ernest Derricott Ltd (Registered number: 00304354)

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts - continued
for the year ended 31 March 2016

3. FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS
Investments
other
than
loans
£   
COST
At 1 April 2015
and 31 March 2016 1,000
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 March 2016 1,000
At 31 March 2015 1,000

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

Nomess Limited
Nature of business: Holiday home lettings
%
Class of shares: holding
Ordinary 100.00
2016 2015
£    £   
Aggregate capital and reserves (44,062 ) (48,552 )
Profit/(loss) for the year 4,490 (1,836 )

4. INVESTMENT PROPERTY
Total
£   
COST OR VALUATION
At 1 April 2015 4,500,000
Additions 602,824
Disposals (500,000 )
At 31 March 2016 4,602,824
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 March 2016 4,602,824
At 31 March 2015 4,500,000

5. CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL

Allotted, issued and fully paid:
Number: Class: Nominal 2016 2015
value: £    £   
4,725 Ordinary 1 4,725 4,725