CMS Construction Consultants Ltd - Abbreviated accounts 16.1

REGISTERED NUMBER: 06456488 (England and Wales)

CMS CONSTRUCTION

CONSULTANTS LTD

ABBREVIATED UNAUDITED ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 OCTOBER 2016

Page

Company Information

1

Abbreviated Balance Sheet

2

Notes to the Abbreviated Accounts

4

Chartered Accountants' Report

7

DIRECTORS:

P Coleman

P J Blake

SECRETARY:

P Coleman

REGISTERED OFFICE:

26 Martingate

Corsham

Wiltshire

SN13 0HL

REGISTERED NUMBER:

06456488 (England and Wales)

ACCOUNTANTS:

Clear Vision Accountancy Limited

1 Abacus House

Newlands Road

Corsham

Wiltshire

SN13 0BH

BANKERS:

Barclays Bank plc

37 Milsom Street

Bath

FIXED ASSETS

Tangible assets

2

81,655

104,865

Investments

3

10,172

91,827

115,037

CURRENT ASSETS

Stocks

-

20,750

Debtors

434,684

437,961

Cash at bank and in hand

47,946

72,412

482,630

531,123

CREDITORS

Amounts falling due within one year

65,394

92,151

NET CURRENT ASSETS

417,236

438,972

TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT
LIABILITIES

509,063

554,009

PROVISIONS FOR LIABILITIES

8,181

12,114

NET ASSETS

500,882

541,895

CAPITAL AND RESERVES

Called up share capital

4

11,300

Profit and loss account

489,582

530,595

SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS

500,882

541,895

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 9 January 2017 and were signed on its behalf by:

P J Blake - Director

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 CMS Construction Consultants 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 net invoiced sales of services, 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.

Plant and machinery etc

-

25% on cost and 20% on cost

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.

Hire purchase and leasing commitments

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.

Going concern

The directors have assessed whether the company is a going concern and have considered all available

information about the future and are confident of the company's ability to continue as a going concern.

2.	TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

Total

£

COST

At 1 November 2015

207,137

Additions

3,095

Disposals

(86,667

)

At 31 October 2016

123,565

DEPRECIATION

At 1 November 2015

102,272

Charge for year

26,305

Eliminated on disposal

(86,667

)

At 31 October 2016

41,910

NET BOOK VALUE

At 31 October 2016

81,655

At 31 October 2015

104,865

3.	FIXED ASSET INVESTMENTS

Investments

other

than

loans

£

COST

At 1 November 2015

and 31 October 2016

10,172

NET BOOK VALUE

At 31 October 2016

10,172

At 31 October 2015

10,172

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

CMS Architects Ltd

Nature of business: Architects

%

Class of shares:

holding

Ordinary

90.00

2016

2015

£

Aggregate capital and reserves

1,983

(97,895

)

Profit/(loss) for the year

99,878

(171,789

)

CMS Project Managers and Surveyors Ltd

Nature of business: Project Managers and Surveyors

%

Class of shares:

holding

Ordinary

100.00

2016

2015

£

Aggregate capital and reserves

53,018

49,591

Profit for the year

30,925

26,472

During the year the company received dividends in relation to the investment of £27,500 (2015 - £nil)

4.	CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL

Allotted and issued:

Number:

Class:

Nominal

2016

2015

value:

£

11,300

Ordinary

£1

11,300

5.	TRANSACTIONS WITH DIRECTORS

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

31 October 2015:

2016

2015

£

P Coleman

Balance outstanding at start of year

(19,433

)

37,899

Amounts advanced

73,893

910

Amounts repaid

(53,053

)

(58,242

)

Balance outstanding at end of year

1,407

(19,433

)

P J Blake

Balance outstanding at start of year

(10,000

)

13,629

Amounts advanced

13,579

-

Amounts repaid

(7,141

)

(23,629

)

Balance outstanding at end of year

(3,562

)

(10,000

)

The following reproduces the text of the report prepared for the directors in respect of the company's annual

unaudited financial statements, from which the unaudited abbreviated accounts (set out on pages two to six)

have been prepared.

In order to assist you to fulfil your duties under the Companies Act 2006, we have prepared for your approval the

financial statements of CMS Construction Consultants Ltd for the year ended 31 October 2016 which comprise the

Profit and Loss Account, the 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 at icaew.com/membershandbook.

This report is made solely to the Board of Directors of CMS Construction Consultants Ltd, 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 CMS Construction Consultants Ltd and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors of CMS Construction Consultants Ltd, as a body, in this report in accordance with AAF 2/10 as detailed at icaew.com/compilation. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and its Board of Directors, as a body, for our work or for this report.

It is your duty to ensure that CMS Construction Consultants Ltd 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 CMS Construction Consultants Ltd. You consider that CMS Construction Consultants Ltd 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 CMS Construction Consultants Ltd. 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.

Clear Vision Accountancy Limited

1 Abacus House

Newlands Road

Corsham

Wiltshire

SN13 0BH

11 January 2017