Russell Signs Limited - Abbreviated accounts 16.3

Russell Signs Limited - Abbreviated accounts 16.3


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REGISTERED NUMBER: 01854567 (England and Wales)















Abbreviated Unaudited Accounts for the Year Ended 31 October 2016

for

Russell Signs Limited

Russell Signs Limited (Registered number: 01854567)






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




Page

Company Information 1

Abbreviated Balance Sheet 2

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts 3

Russell Signs Limited

Company Information
for the Year Ended 31 October 2016







DIRECTORS: Mr A Quinlan
Mrs A V Quinlan





SECRETARY: Mrs A.V. Quinlan





REGISTERED OFFICE: 16 Baynes Place
Waterhouse Business Park
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 2QX





REGISTERED NUMBER: 01854567 (England and Wales)





ACCOUNTANTS: Mostons
29 The Green
Winchmore Hill
London
N21 1HS

Russell Signs Limited (Registered number: 01854567)

Abbreviated Balance Sheet
31 October 2016

31.10.16 31.10.15
Notes £    £    £    £   
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible assets 2 43,085 57,718
Investments 3 24,864 24,864
67,949 82,582

CURRENT ASSETS
Stocks 5,000 43,000
Debtors 106,362 600,219
Cash at bank and in hand 6,296 82,456
117,658 725,675
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year 581,342 648,621
NET CURRENT (LIABILITIES)/ASSETS (463,684 ) 77,054
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES (395,735 ) 159,636

PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES 2,140 3,771
NET (LIABILITIES)/ASSETS (397,875 ) 155,865

CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share capital 4 350 350
Capital redemption reserve 750 750
Profit and loss account (398,975 ) 154,765
SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS (397,875 ) 155,865

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

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 October 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 July 2017 and were signed on its behalf by:




Mr A Quinlan - Director


Russell Signs Limited (Registered number: 01854567)

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts
for the Year Ended 31 October 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).

Turnover
Turnover represents net invoiced sales of goods, 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 or, if held under a finance lease, over the lease term, whichever is the shorter.

Land and buildings - in accordance with the property
Plant and machinery etc - 25% on reducing balance

Stocks
Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value, after making due allowance for obsolete and slow moving items.

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

Foreign currencies
Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rates of exchange ruling at the balance sheet date.
Transactions in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rate of exchange ruling at the date of transaction. Exchange
differences are taken into account in arriving at the operating result.

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.

Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to the profit and loss account on a straight line basis over the period of the lease.

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.

Russell Signs Limited (Registered number: 01854567)

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

2. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS
Total
£   
COST
At 1 November 2015 316,233
Additions 1,263
At 31 October 2016 317,496
DEPRECIATION
At 1 November 2015 258,515
Charge for year 15,896
At 31 October 2016 274,411
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 October 2016 43,085
At 31 October 2015 57,718

3. FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS
Investments
other
than
loans
£   
COST
At 1 November 2015
and 31 October 2016 24,864
NET BOOK VALUE
At 31 October 2016 24,864
At 31 October 2015 24,864

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

Russell Creative LLC
Country of incorporation: USA
Nature of business: Animatronics
%
Class of shares: holding
Ordinary 100.00
31.10.16 31.10.15
£    £   
Aggregate capital and reserves 1 1
Profit for the year 1 1

Russell Signs Limited (Registered number: 01854567)

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

4. CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL

Allotted, issued and fully paid:
Number: Class: Nominal 31.10.16 31.10.15
value: £    £   
300 Ordinary £1 300 300
50 'A' Ordinary non voting £1 50 50
350 350

5. DIRECTORS' ADVANCES, CREDITS AND GUARANTEES

The following advances and credits to directors subsisted during the years ended 31 October 2016 and 31 October 2015:

31.10.16 31.10.15
£    £   
Mr A Quinlan and Mrs A V Quinlan
Balance outstanding at start of year (886 ) (3,363 )
Amounts advanced 133,022 293,889
Amounts repaid (271,425 ) (291,412 )
Balance outstanding at end of year (139,289 ) (886 )

During the year, the company paid rent of £98,000 (2015: £98,000) to a Partnership, in which A Quinlan has a 50% interest.