A great buy!12 Sep 2012 11:45
Re Greenpark: "Net assets with a book value of £11,911,000 were acquired at the date of acquisition. The Directors have carried out a fair value assessment of the identifiable assets, liabilities and contingent liabilities of Greenpark Energy Limited and concluded that the net fair value at the date of acquisition is £5,775,000." An adjustment (i.e. write down) of £6,136,000.
Total consideration £5,236,000, costs a nice round £500,000 so a "profit" on purchasing Greenpark of £39,000.
These assets apparently are producing revenue at annual rate of £4m with a profit of £1.7m - not a bad payback!!
Obviously very sensible to be prudent and completely fortuitously helps the tax situation. But clearly the Greenpark directors valued their assets slightly differently to Alkane!! Seems to reinforce my view that the numbers in a companies accounts for assets are to say the least dubious