Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Oakham Town Council Balance Sheet Update 2014 - 2015 Accounts


All

In response to Martin’s question below.

This is something that has been discussed between members of the Finance Working Group and myself.

The balance sheet is on a template produced by the Council’s accounts software and cannot be altered.

To clarify matters the balance sheet has therefore been manually reproduced with further wording and a footnote

A copy is attached

Richard

From: Martin Brookes [mailto:martinbrookes@politician.com]
Sent: 18 August 2015 09:33
To: Richard White
Cc: Oakham Town Council ; Adam Lowe ; Cllr Jasmine Hopkins ; Stan Stubbs ; Vince Howard ; Michael Elliott ; Joyce Lucas ; Alf Dewis ; Allison Greaves ; David Blanksby ; Paul Mills
Subject: Accounts Loan

Dear Richard

A member of the public has written to me and suggested the following
is this possible?

From

Martin

a footer below the balance sheet calculation along the lines of "borrowings as shown on statement appendix xxx £40744





OAKHAM TOWN COUNCIL
BALANCE SHEET
31/03/2015

Year Ending
31st March 2014
£

Year Ending
31st March 2015
£

LONG TERM ASSETS

0.00
Fixed assets and long term Investments
0.00
0.00
Long Term Debtors
0.00




CURRENT ASSETS

0.00
Stocks and stores
0.00
0.00
Work in progress
0.00
0.00
Debtors (Net of provision for doubtful debts)
2,842.00
0.00
Payments in advance
0.00
3,411.12
VAT Recoverable
9,985.13
0.00
Temporary lendings (investments)
0.00
96,693.50
Cash in hand
108,739.00



100,104.62
TOTAL ASSETS
121,566.13




CURRENT LIABILITIES

2,250.00
Creditors
3,710.53
0.00
Temporary borrowing
0.00



97,854.62
NET ASSETS
117,855.60




Represented by:

62,722.34
General fund Balance
80,253.60




Reserves:

0.00
Capital
0.00
35,132.28
Earmarked
37,602.00
0.00
Adjustments
0.00



97,854.62

117,855.60




The above statement represents fairly the financial position of the Council at 31st March 2015 as detailed in Boxes 1 – 8 of Section 1 of the Annual Return.

Signed: …………………………………………………… Date: ……………………………………………

(Responsible Financial Officer)


Footnote to the Balance Sheet
  • At 31st March 2015 Oakham Town Council had total borrowings of £40,734.13
from the Public Works Loan Board.

  • At 31st March 2015 Oakham Town Council also had Fixed Assets as detailed in its Asset Register of £1,044,216.00

The figures in the footnote are not included in the Balance Sheet above as this directly reports to the Councils Accounting Statements for 2014 / 2015 as detailed in Boxes 1 – 8 in Section 1 of the Annual Return.


However, the figures in the footnote are included separately in Boxes 9 and 10 respectively in Section 1 of the Annual Return