Asian Business Publications Limited - Accounts to registrar (filleted) - small 18.2

REGISTERED NUMBER: 02234219 (England and Wales)

Unaudited Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2021

for

Asian Business Publications Limited

Page

Company Information

1

Balance Sheet

2

Notes to the Financial Statements

4

Chartered Accountants' Report

8

DIRECTORS:

Mr C B Patel

Mrs P C Patel

Miss S M Patel

Mrs Urja Patel

SECRETARY:

Miss S M Patel

REGISTERED OFFICE:

Units 207-208

Harrow Business Centre

429-433 Pinner Road

Middlesex

HA1 4HN

REGISTERED NUMBER:

02234219 (England and Wales)

ACCOUNTANTS:

K J Desai & Company

Chartered Accountants

3 More London Riverside

London

SE1 2RE

FIXED ASSETS

Intangible assets

4

-

12,307

Tangible assets

5

1

5,640

1

17,947

CURRENT ASSETS

Debtors

6

250,094

342,866

Cash at bank and in hand

190,488

95,011

440,582

437,877

CREDITORS

Amounts falling due within one year

7

605,034

666,535

NET CURRENT LIABILITIES

(164,452

)

(228,658

)

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES

(164,451

)

(210,711

)

PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES

-

958

NET LIABILITIES

(164,451

)

(211,669

)

CAPITAL AND RESERVES

Called up share capital

100

100

Retained earnings

(164,551

)

(211,769

)

SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS

(164,451

)

(211,669

)

The company is entitled to exemption from audit under Section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 for the year ended 31 March 2021.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021 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 financial statements have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

In accordance with Section 444 of the Companies Act 2006, the Income Statement has not been delivered.

The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 24 March 2022 and were signed on its behalf by:

Mr C B Patel - Director

Mrs P C Patel - Director

1.	STATUTORY INFORMATION

Asian Business Publications Limited is a private company, limited by shares, registered in England and Wales. The company's registered number and registered office address can be found on the Company Information page. The company's parent company is Gujarat Samachar Publications Limited, registered in England and Wales ( registered number 01291862) and it has the same registered address.

The financial statements are presented in Sterling,which is the functional currency of the company.

2.	ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparing the financial statements

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" including the provisions of Section 1A "Small Entities" and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis on the assumption that the directors will continue to support the company.

Turnover

Turnover is measured at the fair value of the consideration received or receivable, excluding discounts, rebates, value added tax and other sales taxes.

Subscription income is recognised by reference to the number of months covered by the subscription falling before the accounting date. The balance of the subscription is included in creditors either due within one year or after one year as appropriate.The Company records advertising income on the publication date.

Goodwill

Goodwill, being the amount paid in connection with the acquisition of a business in 1997, is being amortised evenly over its remaining estimated life.

Intangible assets

Intangible assets are initially measured at cost. After initial recognition, intangible assets are measured at cost less any accumulated amortisation and any accumulated impairment losses.

Tangible fixed assets

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

Plant and machinery etc

-

25% on reducing balance

Taxation

Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Income Statement, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity.

Current or deferred taxation assets and liabilities are not discounted.

Current tax is recognised at the amount of tax payable using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date.

Deferred tax

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

Timing differences arise from the inclusion of income and expenses in tax assessments in periods different from those in which they are recognised in financial statements. Deferred tax is measured using tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the year end and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference.

Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised only to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits.

Foreign currencies

Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rates of exchange rulling 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

Rentals paid under operating leases are charged to the profit and loss account as incurred.

Pensions

Contributions in respect of the company's defined contribution personal pension scheme are charged to the profit and loss account for the year in which they are payable to the scheme.

3.	EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS

The average number of employees during the year was 7 (2020 - 14 ) .

4.	INTANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

Goodwill

£

COST

At 1 April 2020

and 31 March 2021

399,192

AMORTISATION

At 1 April 2020

386,885

Charge for year

12,307

At 31 March 2021

399,192

NET BOOK VALUE

At 31 March 2021

-

At 31 March 2020

12,307

5.	TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

Plant and

machinery

etc

£

COST

At 1 April 2020

and 31 March 2021

78,686

DEPRECIATION

At 1 April 2020

73,046

Charge for year

5,639

At 31 March 2021

78,685

NET BOOK VALUE

At 31 March 2021

1

At 31 March 2020

5,640

6.

DEBTORS

31.3.21

31.3.20

£

£

Amounts falling due within one year:

Trade debtors

136,177

147,992

Other debtors

34,265

116,634

170,442

264,626

Amounts falling due after more than one year:

Other debtors

79,652

78,240

Aggregate amounts

250,094

342,866

7.

CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

31.3.21

31.3.20

£

£

Trade creditors

327,573

403,033

Amounts owed to group undertakings

666

666

Taxation and social security

20,152

20,742

Other creditors

256,643

242,094

605,034

666,535

8.	DIRECTORS' ADVANCES, CREDITS AND GUARANTEES

The following advances and credits to directors subsisted during the years ended 31 March 2021 and 31 March 2020:

31.3.21

31.3.20

£

£

Miss S M Patel

Balance outstanding at start of year

-

3,000

Amounts repaid

-

(3,000

)

Amounts written off

-

-

Amounts waived

-

-

Balance outstanding at end of year

-

-

Mrs Urja Patel

Balance outstanding at start of year

-

22,000

Amounts repaid

-

(22,000

)

Amounts written off

-

-

Amounts waived

-

-

Balance outstanding at end of year

-

-

During the year, the Directors financed the company by way of current accounts as follows:

31/3/2021 £106,602

31/3/2020 £187,916

The above current accounts are interest free.

On 16 November 2011, the company guaranteed an amount up to £500,000 in respect of the loan raised Miss S M Patel from Barclays Bank PLC for £1,414,000. The guarantee was cancelled following the repayment of the loan to Barclays Bank PLC by Miss S M Patel on 22 October 2021.

The following reproduces the text of the report prepared for the directors in respect of the company's annual unaudited financial statements. In accordance with the Companies Act 2006, the company is only required to file a Balance Sheet. Readers are cautioned that the Income Statement and certain other primary statements and the Report of the Directors are not required to be filed with the Registrar of Companies.

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the financial statements of Asian Business Publications Limited for the year ended 31 March 2021 which comprise the Income Statement, Balance Sheet and the related notes from the company's accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.

As a practising member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed within the ICAEW's regulations and guidance at http://www.icaew.com/en/membership/regulations-standards-and-guidance.

This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of Asian Business Publications Limited, as a body, in accordance with our terms of engagement. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the financial statements of Asian Business Publications Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of Asian Business Publications Limited, as a body, in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than Asian Business Publications Limited and its Board of Directors, as a body, for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that Asian Business Publications Limited has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory financial statements that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit of Asian Business Publications Limited. You consider that Asian Business Publications Limited is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the year.

We have not been instructed to carry out an audit or a review of the financial statements of Asian Business Publications Limited. For this reason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the statutory financial statements.

K J Desai & Company

Chartered Accountants

3 More London Riverside

London

SE1 2RE

24 March 2022