Going concern25 Jun 2021 10:12
If anyone is left wondering re the full impact of the worst case scenario (dhsc win in full) or another poster decides to throw a grenade. Please remember this statement from the annual accounts which is signed off by a independent auditors in conjunction with external legal counsel and the board. So all insiders and all who will be breaking the law by making false representation.
Page 7. Note 2.8 of the Management Report
“ The Directors have, at the time of approving the financial statements, a reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus, they adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.
The going concern model covers the period up to and including June 2022. In making this assessment, the Directors have considered the following elements:
- The working capital requirements of the business;
- A positive cash balance at 31 December 2020 of £91,765,000;
- Payment of the second tranche of the Long-Term Incentive Plan (“LTIP”) that commenced in November 2017 and concluded in November 2020;
- Payment of the first earn-out milestone related to the IT-IS International acquisition; and
- Management’s confidence in settling the outstanding commercial dispute.
In the event the current dispute is fully settled in favour of the counterparty, the forecast prepared by the Group shows that it is able to cover its cash needs during the financial year 2021 and until June 2022 without the raising of any banking or other financing facility.”
The coining concern model has to be for 12 months from publishing the accounts - so out until June 22. This explicitly says that even if the dispute is fully settled in favour of the dhsc we are solvent with adequate liquidity. Given we have 90m of cash (plus and cashflow from H1 although likely negligible as the dhsc not
Paid us for q1 or 23m of q4) it is not possible that the full liability for the dispute can be the sum of the revenues the dispute relates too plus the provision taken against the dispute. That in itself is total utter nonsense of a calculation and certainly not one any trained or qualified accountant would make.