Downer & Co Ltd - Abbreviated accounts 16.3

Downer & Co Ltd - Abbreviated accounts 16.3


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REGISTERED NUMBER: 02698329 (England and Wales)















Abbreviated Unaudited Accounts for the Year Ended 31 August 2016

for

Downer & Co Ltd

Downer & Co Ltd (Registered number: 02698329)






Contents of the Abbreviated Accounts
for the Year Ended 31 August 2016




Page

Company Information 1

Abbreviated Balance Sheet 2

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts 4

Downer & Co Ltd

Company Information
for the Year Ended 31 August 2016







DIRECTORS: S D Downer
R Bailey





SECRETARY: The Old Butchery Ltd





REGISTERED OFFICE: The Old Butchery
High Street
Twyford
Hampshire
SO21 1NH





REGISTERED NUMBER: 02698329 (England and Wales)





ACCOUNTANTS: Rothman Accountancy Services Limited
The Old Butchery
High Street
Twyford
Hampshire
SO21 INH

Downer & Co Ltd (Registered number: 02698329)

Abbreviated Balance Sheet
31 August 2016

31.8.16 31.8.15
Notes £    £    £    £   
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets 2 22,349 27,587
Investments 3 1,000 2,000
23,349 29,587

CURRENT ASSETS
Stocks 10,221 16,753
Debtors 4 220,099 189,102
Cash at bank and in hand 78,940 70,538
309,260 276,393
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 5 145,989 120,543
NET CURRENT ASSETS 163,271 155,850
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES

186,620

185,437

CREDITORS
Amounts falling due after more than one
year

5

(18,331

)

(33,118

)

PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES (3,130 ) -
NET ASSETS 165,159 152,319

CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share capital 6 500 500
Share premium 22,540 22,540
Profit and loss account 142,119 129,279
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS 165,159 152,319

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

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

Downer & Co Ltd (Registered number: 02698329)

Abbreviated Balance Sheet - continued
31 August 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 31 January 2017 and were signed on its behalf by:





S D Downer - Director


Downer & Co Ltd (Registered number: 02698329)

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts
for the Year Ended 31 August 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 Downer & Co 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.

Exemption from preparing a cash flow statement
Exemption has been taken from preparing a cash flow statement on the grounds that the company qualifies as a
small company.

Turnover
Turnover is the amount derived from ordinary activities, and is stated after trade discounts, other sales taxes and
net of VAT.

Tangible fixed assets
Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life or, if held under a finance lease, over the lease term, whichever is the shorter.

Short leasehold - in accordance with the property
Fixtures and fittings - 20% on reducing balance
Motor vehicles - 25% on reducing balance
Computer equipment - 50% on cost

Stocks
The work in progress shown in the financial statements comprises the commission due on properties that
exchange in the week following the year end. This is on the basis that all work to negotiate the exchange has
been completed by the year end date.

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

Hire purchase and leasing commitments
Assets obtained under hire purchase contracts or finance leases are capitalised in the balance sheet. Those held
under hire purchase contracts are depreciated over their estimated useful lives. Those held under finance leases
are depreciated over their estimated useful lives or the lease term, whichever is the shorter.

The interest element of these obligations is charged to the profit and loss account over the relevant period. The
capital element of the future payments is treated as a liability.

Downer & Co Ltd (Registered number: 02698329)

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts - continued
for the Year Ended 31 August 2016

2. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Total
£   
COST
At 1 September 2015 205,925
Additions 2,421
At 31 August 2016 208,346
DEPRECIATION
At 1 September 2015 178,338
Charge for year 7,659
At 31 August 2016 185,997
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 August 2016 22,349
At 31 August 2015 27,587

3. FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS
Investments
other
than
loans
£   
COST
At 1 September 2015 2,000
Disposals (1,000 )
At 31 August 2016 1,000
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 August 2016 1,000
At 31 August 2015 2,000

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

Downer Financial Services Limited
Nature of business: dormant
%
Class of shares: holding
Ordinary 99.90
31.8.16 31.8.15
£    £   
Aggregate capital and reserves 1,000 1,000

Downer & Co Ltd (Registered number: 02698329)

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts - continued
for the Year Ended 31 August 2016

3. FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS - continued

Downer Marshall & Co Limited
Nature of business: property lettings.
%
Class of shares: holding
Ordinary 99.90

Downer Marshall & Co Limited (formerly Downer & Co (Marlborough Lettings) Limited) ceased trading in the
year ended 31 August 2014. The company was dissolved on 29 December 2015.

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

The aggregate total of debtors falling due after more than one year is £ 0 (31.8.15 - £ 38,576 )

5. CREDITORS

Creditors include an amount of £ 33,119 (31.8.15 - £ 47,524 ) for which security has been given.

6. CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL

Allotted, issued and fully paid:
Number: Class: Nominal 31.8.16 31.8.15
value: £    £   
450 A Ordinary £1 450 450
50 B Ordinary £1 50 50
500 500