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DELIVERING
GROWTH

Annual Report and Accounts 2016

Page Title at start:Content Section at start:THIS HAS BEEN A REWARDING YEAR FOR  
THE GROUP WITH REVENUES UP BY 44%  
AND ADJUSTED OPERATING PROFIT UP BY 109% AND 
DESPITE A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN OVERHEADS WE 
INVESTED AS PLANNED IN THE GROWTH OF THE 
BUSINESS.

We have achieved strong organic growth, good first time contributions  
from acquisitions as well as robust cash flow and cash conversion.  
This strong financial performance is enabling the payment of a 
proposed maiden dividend.

The Group has had a successful start to the new financial year consistent with its 
expectations for the year as a whole. The latest contract win with Allianz together 
with our strong pipeline of further opportunities provides additional visibility in our 
outlook for this year. The Board, therefore, is confident of a positive outlook for the 
year as a whole.

John Watkins Executive Chairman

Revenue

Adjusted Operating Profit*

Units Reporting

30,000,000

25,000,000

20,000,000

15,000,000

10,000,000

5,000,000

£25,649,188

4,000,000

£3,921,044

3,000,000

2,000,000

1,000,000

151,000

200,000

150,000

100,000

50,000

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Strategic Report
Highlights 

At a glance 

Market overview 

Business model 

Executive chairman’s statement 

Our strategy 

Strategy in action 

Finance director’s report 

Key performance indicators 

Corporate social responsibility 

Risk management 

*Operating Profit before exceptionals and SBP

Governance Report
The board of directors 

Governance report 

Directors’ Report
Directors’ report 

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Financial Statements
Independent auditor’s report 

Consolidated statement of 
comprehensive income 

Consolidated statement of changes in equity 

Consolidated statement of financial position 

Consolidated statement of cash-flows 

Notes to the consolidated financial statements 

Independent auditor’s report 

Parent company statement of financial position 

Parent company statement of changes in equity 

Notes to the parent company financial statements 

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Page Title at start:Content Section at start:FINANCIAL AND OPERATING
HIGHLIGHTS

Revenues

£25.6m
Ó44%
(2015: £17.9m)

Strategic Report

Highlights

Cash generated  
from operations

£4.5m
Ó274%
(2015: £1.1m)

Adjusted  
operating profit*

£3.9m
Ó109%
(2015: £1.9m)

Basic earnings 
per share

11.15p
Ó91%
(2015: 5.84p)

Financial Highlights

Operating Highlights

2016

2015

Change

Revenues
Operating profit
Adjusted operating profit*
Cash generated from operations
Profit before tax
Adjusted earnings per share*
Basic earnings per share 
Dividend per share (proposed)

£25.65m 
£3.11m
£3.92m
£4.45m
£3.00m
13.44p
11.15p
2p

£17.85m 
£1.76m
£1.88m
£1.19m
£1.70m
6.24p
5.84p
nil

+44%
+77%
+109%
+274%
+76%
115%
+91%
n/a

* before exceptional costs and share based payments 

•  Revenues up 44% year on year included:

 – Strong organic growth of 28% 
 – First time contributions from the trade and assets of DCS 

Systems Ltd (‘DCS’) and Route Monkey Holdings Ltd (‘RML’) 
which were acquired in the year

 – Recurring revenues up 49% to £8.31m

•  Orders received up 29% year on year (organic basis)
•  Net debt+ of £1.09m (2015: net cash £0.60m), following £10.4m 

acquisition cash spend, £6.0m equity placing and strong cash flow 
and conversion 

•  Maiden final dividend of 2 pence per share to be proposed

•  151,000 units now reporting to our servers (2015: 102,000)
•  2 acquisitions, DCS and RML completed in the year; integrations 
proceeding to plan. Both are profitable, cash generative and 
earnings enhancing 

•  Substantial contract wins for both fleet and insurance customers:
 – during the year: with Iceland Foods, Kubota UK, and the AA 
 – post-year-end: with Scottish Power, BT Fleet, Allianz and Shell
•  Significant investment in R&D, and sales and marketing resources 

to drive growth 

Outlook

•  Continuation of a strong order pipeline and increase in sales 

opportunities

•  Good visibility of revenue and cash flow due to recurring revenues 

and new contract wins

+ total borrowings less cash

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2016Strategic ReportDirectors’ ReportGovernance ReportFinancial StatementsPage Title at start:Content Section at start:At a glance

AT A GLANCE

WHAT WE DO

EXPERTS IN DATA 
COLLECTION AND 
ANALYSIS

This data is used to derive algorithms to create driver profiles 
for a variety of uses. These include risk calculation, crash 
alerts and preventative vehicle maintenance. The data is 
stored in line with the Group’s ISO 27001 accreditation.

HOW WE DO IT

Telematic Solutions

Data  
Collection 
Analysis 
Insights

Fleet Solutions
To monitor fleet vehicles for:

Insurance Solutions
Enables insurers to:

Automotive Solutions
To monitor vehicles for:

•  driver behaviour and  
fuel consumption

• 

risk optimisation

• 

track and trace

•  crash information

•  vehicle diagnostics

•  preventative maintenance

• 

route optimisation

•  driver risk profiling

•  vehicle performance

•  crash detection

•  vehicle diagnostics

•  vehicle diagnostics

•  odometer readings for 

preventative maintenance

•  create service revenue 

opportunities

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2016Page Title at start:Content Section at start:PROVIDING FIRST CLASS FLEET 
MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Trakm8’s software supplies Fleet Managers 
with insights into location, driver behaviour 
and route optimisation which is then 
used to provide insights as to how fleets 
can run as efficiently as possible. Trakm8 
solutions can impact over 65% of operational 
costs of a typical commercial fleet.

CREATING ALGORITHMS TO 
PREDICT FUTURE EVENTS

Over 3 billion miles of data collected each 
year is analysed to help our Insurance 
customers calculate risk more accurately, 
and provide our other customers with 
preventative maintenance for their fleets. 

Trakm8 uses big data algorithms derived from 
automotive vehicles to provide its wide customer 
base with market leading insights on how to 
promote efficiency and safety when driving.

Solutions
The Group owns almost all of the intellectual property (‘IP’) used  
in its solutions. The solutions have been developed for a variety  
of markets, most notably being Insurance, Fleet Management and 
Automotive. The developments of the 6th generation of the software 
(‘SWIFT’) have continued, as well as the development of the next 
generation user interface and mobile apps.

The Group has invested heavily into its First Notification of  
Loss application, which has received a positive take up from 
Insurance customers. This application enables Insurers to be  
alerted immediately of any incident the vehicle may encounter that 
results in a collision. The G-Force data, coupled with speed and 
location, will give the Insurer near real time information regarding  
the probable severity of the incident.

Trakm8 believe they provide the most comprehensive range of Fleet 
Management solutions available in the market which has been further 
strengthened this year by the acquisition of the trade and assets of 
DCS Systems Limited (‘DCS’) and the acquisition of Route Monkey 
Holdings Limited (‘RML’). This has enabled the Group to offer a wide 
range of services to its customers, which includes route optimisation, 
electronic proof of delivery features, and soon a camera and 
telematics integrated device, due for launch later this year.

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2016Strategic ReportDirectors’ ReportGovernance ReportFinancial StatementsPage Title at start:Content Section at start:AT A GLANCE CONTINUED

Products
The majority of our design and development of our hardware is  
carried out in house with the demand for Trakm8 units from other 
Telematics Service Providers (‘TSPs’) and Integrators remaining  
strong. The year 2015/16 has seen a record number of units made  
for Solution sales, in turn driving down the costs associated with 
production. The replacement of all older generation Trakm8 products 
has now been completed which means all of the Group’s telematics 
devices being made in house at the manufacturing plant in Coleshill. 
This resulted in the Group being awarded a ‘Made in Britain’ 
accreditation in May 2015.

This year, the product sector includes camera sales from the acquired 
DCS business, where a wide range of ‘dash cams’ are sold through  
a variety of well-established retailers such as Halfords online. There 
have also been significant orders received for the cameras this last 
year from customers including EuroCarParts and TNT. The HD-2  
is also part of Volvo’s approved list of accessories, with cameras 
promoted in many UK showrooms.

2016 saw the launch of the next generation of this product, the 
RoadHawk HD-2 which encompasses market-leading high-definition 
technology, image stabilisation and compatibility with the largest 
available memory card, allowing up to 64 hours of video recording  
at full high definition.

Research and Development
The Group prides itself in owning almost all of its IP, and this is  
derived from the heavy investment into improving current products 
and developing the next generation of new ones. The Group has 
invested in Engineers, with a 44% increase since last year in our 
research & development teams. The investment into in-house 
Engineering along with the in-house manufacturing of telematics 
devices means the Group is able to work more efficiently through  
the development chain than many competitors.

The Group still continues to have the smallest self-install telematics 
device on the market, where there is a team of Engineers already 
developing the next generation of product. The wider T10 family  
will soon include units with 4G streaming capabilities, set to be 
launched at the end of this year.

Investment has also been made into expanding the Advanced 
Engineering team to include dedicated resource looking at future 
technologies to integrate into the Trakm8 offering. This aims not only 
to develop current products, but to expand what the Group can offer 
to its customers.

KEY STRENGTHS

Ownership of all Intellectual Property
By owning the IP in almost all of its solutions, Trakm8 can  
both develop new variants to suit customers much faster  
than competitors are able to, as well as make alterations  
to its supplied services if necessary.

Extensive Integration
The Group can integrate with 3rd party systems to offer an 
attractive proposition to clients who want to continue utilising  
their own established bespoke systems. This ensures the  
Group becomes a key partner to a number of suppliers.

First Class Insights
Over three billion miles of data collected annually allows the Group 
to develop leading insights into driver profiling and preventative 
maintenance. This is the driving force behind customers achieving 
optimum efficiency either through the calculation of risk or the 
optimised efficiency of running a fleet. Trakm8 provides these 
insights in easy to digest formats to avoid ‘data overload’ and  
give the user driver behaviour improvement coaching.

Trakm8's Crash solution can be used by Insurers to detect 
customer incidents and enable prompt and efficient 
claims management.

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2016Page Title at start:Content Section at start:TRAKM8 USES BIG DATA 
ALGORITHMS DERIVED FROM 
AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLES TO 
PROVIDE ITS WIDE CUSTOMER 
BASE WITH MARKET LEADING 
INSIGHTS ON HOW TO PROMOTE 
EFFICIENCY AND SAFETY  
WHEN DRIVING.

Users Journeys
•  Over 151,000 vehicles are installed with  
a Trakm8 manufactured telematics unit  
reporting to our servers
Information regarding the vehicles’ operation  
is sent via the GSM network via satellite
•  This data is then displayed on a web based  
user interface or mobile app to show users  
location of vehicles and driver behaviour

• 

•  The data is also analysed by the in house team  
of Big Data scientists who use it to further fine  
tune our algorithms

•  These algorithms give our customers valuable 
insights in how they can operate vehicles more 
efficiently and with lower risks

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2016Strategic ReportDirectors’ ReportGovernance ReportFinancial StatementsPage Title at start:Content Section at start:MARKET OVERVIEW

Market overview

CREATING TECHNOLOGY 
& DRIVING MARKET 
DEVELOPMENT

Trakm8 solutions are developed from the same 
source of information, but are used in a wide range 
of applications across a number of markets.

Overall Market 
Research from Berg Insight suggests that both the Fleet Management 
and Insurance markets are at the beginning of growth periods that will 
last for several years. The number of Fleet Management systems in  
use in Europe is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate 
of 15.1% from 4.4 million units at the end of 2014 to 8.9 million units  
by 20191. 

In Europe, the UK has the second largest insurance telematics market 
(after Italy) and the forecast annual compound growth rate is due to 
meet 42.4% 2, increasing the amount of policies from 4.8 million at  
the end of 2014 to 28.1 million at the end of 2019. 

1  Market research provided by Berg Insight. Fleet Management in Europe, further info available 

on request.

2	 Market	research	provided	by	Berg	Insight.	Insurance	Telematics	in	North	America,	further	info	

available on request.

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2016Page Title at start:Content Section at start:TRAKM8 AND THE AA

TRAKM8 HELPED THE AA  
SAVE MORE THAN £1 MILLION  
IN FUEL ACROSS THEIR FLEET OF  
3,000 VEHICLES IN THE FIRST  
YEAR ALONE 

  Go to page 14 for more information

TRAKM8 AND  
DIRECT LINE GROUP

TRAKM8 PROVIDE DLG WITH 
SELF INSTALL TELEMATICS UNITS 
TO MONITOR THE DRIVING 
BEHAVIOUR OF YOUNG DRIVERS, 
AND REWARD THEM ACCORDINGLY

  Go to page 16 for more information

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2016Strategic ReportDirectors’ ReportGovernance ReportFinancial StatementsPage Title at start:Content Section at start:MARKET OVERVIEW CONTINUED

TECHNOLOGY 
DRIVING MARKET 
DEVELOPMENT

These solutions are used in a wide variety of  
applications from heavy duty commercial vehicles to  
light CVs, cars, earth moving equipment and a number  
of niche applications such as golf carts and 
industrial cleaning machines.

KEY MARKET DRIVERS

For Fleet Management 
•  Fuel prices
•  Economic climate
•  Growing number of commercial vehicle sales
•  Competition to improve efficiency
• 

Increase in electric vehicles

For Insurance
•  Driver risk scoring
•  Usage reports
•  First notification of loss
•  Vehicle health
•  Roadside recovery benefits

Trends 
The rapid growth in the Fleet Management market is underpinned  
by the general quick return of investment of using telematics within 
company fleets1. There is a strong continuing focus on cost efficiency 
and environmental issues that by using a telematics system such  
as Trakm8’s, provides customers with typically up to 20% savings on 
fuel bills overnight. Trakm8 Fleet propositions address costs of fuel 
through driver behaviour change, optimisation, insurance, accident 
claims and vehicle maintenance. These costs typically amount to circa 
65% of the costs of running a Fleet.

Whilst the insurance market is currently dominated by hardwired black 
boxes, the cost advantages associated with the Group’s self-install 
device are not ignored by the major insurance companies such as 
Direct Line and Marmalade, and the market expects to see significant 
growth in this area, as well as the use of smartphones in driver 
profiling. There has been special mention in recent research to the 
hybrid solution that uses a self-install device for the collection of data, 
which is tethered to a mobile phone for the transfer of data1 something 
that the Group has been involved with in North America.

There has been a noticeable uptake in the use of on-board forward 
facing cameras acting as witnesses for commercial and domestic 
drivers alike. This is widely seen as an expanding market, and Trakm8 
are well equipped to meet demand with the RoadHawk dash-cam 
business it acquired through the purchase of assets and trade of 
DCS. The next generation of this technology will see the integration  
of the camera with a telematics device.

1	 Market	research	provided	by	Berg	Insight.	Insurance	Telematics	in	North	America,	further	info	

available on request.

Operational Review
The total number of vehicles reporting to our servers increased  
by 48% to 151,000. The largest component of this growth is from 
insurance policies which this year for the first time exceeded  
the number of vehicles we have under contract with our Fleet  
Management customers.

UK Service Fees (units)

92,025

58,522

52,812

44,157

44,468

100,000

80,000

60,000

40,000

20,000

18,847

20,766

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Insurance

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2016Page Title at start:Content Section at start:BUSINESS MODEL

Business model

CREATING SHAREHOLDER VALUE 
THROUGH TECHNOLOGY 
AND OPERATIONS

Research 
&  
development

Products

Design 
&  
development

Solutions

Telematics 
Service 
Providers 
worldwide

Distributors 
worldwide

Resellers and 
Distributors 
worldwide

B2B Direct

Fleet
Management

Insurance

Automotive

Sales  
revenue

Recurring  
revenue

Big data

Shareholder  
value

The	Group	uses	telematics	data	to	provide	
customers with increasingly deeper insights, 
continuously	improving	the	algorithms	
behind this knowledge.

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statement

EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN’S
STATEMENT

ANOTHER  
EXCELLENT YEAR’S 
PROGRESS

John Watkins
Executive Chairman

Introduction
I am very pleased to present our results for 
the year ended 31 March 2016. This has 
been a rewarding year for the Group with 
revenues up by 44% to £25.65m and adjusted 
operating profit up by 109% to £3.92m 
despite a significant increase in overhead 
costs as we invested as planned in the future 
growth of the business. Our profit before 
tax increased to £3.00m (2015: £1.70m).

Our sales of new Fleet Management solutions 
and insurance products have culminated in 
growth in all areas, and provide us with a solid 
base of recurring revenues from which we can 
continue to expand. Furthermore the range 
and breadth of the data we are now able to 
provide gives us an overwhelming proposition 
for all the business sectors we touch.

The revenue growth of 44% was made 
up of organic growth of 28% with the 
addition of first-time contributions from the 
acquisitions we made during the year. Orders 
received are also up by 29% like for like. 

Trakm8’s business model is strongly  
cash generative now that it is a profitable 
business and given the robust core of 
recurring revenues, although this tends  
to be substantially skewed to the second  
half due to the timing of contract renewals. 
This year we have reported cash generation 
from operating activities of £4.45m  

(2015: £1.19m), with significantly improved 
free cash-flow conversion*, after capex 
and capitalised development costs, of 51% 
(2015: -1%). The improved cash conversion is 
expected to continue as revenues continue 
to increase and development spending 
as a percentage of revenues reduces.

Acquisitions 
During the financial year we completed 2 
acquisitions. We acquired the trade and 
assets of DCS in June 2015 giving us 
vital knowledge and experience of digital 
camera systems and included the Dogcam, 
RoadHawk and Lawmate brands. The 
purchase consideration was £3.28m. 

In December 2015 we acquired the RML 
which provides routing and scheduling 
optimisation solutions. The purchase 
consideration was for a value of £5.04m, 
together with a deferred consideration of up 
to a £2.00m maximum. However, despite 
an earnings enhancing performance and 
encouraging prospects, it is unlikely that 
RML will achieve its target to trigger the 
payment of the deferred consideration 
(which has therefore not been provided for). 

These 2 acquisitions complement our vehicle 
telematics solutions and are enabling us to 
develop the more integrated solutions that 
our customers are demanding, providing 
richer and more refined data. The integration 

of both of these acquisitions is on track and 
they have been earnings enhancing and cash 
generative since their acquisition dates.

Solutions
Solutions sales are the core of our  
telematics offerings and comprise  
revenues from customers where they  
pay for service fees in addition to the  
cost of the hardware, installation and other 
bespoke services. Sales increased by 
57% to £17.21m (2015: £10.98m) and more 
importantly within this growth our recurring 
revenues grew by 49% to £8.31m  
(2015: £5.58m). Growing these service 
revenues is a key focus as it provides 
increasing confidence and predictability 
to future periods. In total we had 
151,000 units (2015: 102,000) reporting 
to our servers at the year end.

Our solutions’ sales cover both the Fleet 
Management and Insurance market sectors. 
The total Fleet Management units only 
increased marginally over the year to 58,522 
(2015: 57,763) due to the loss of circa 5,000 
units from our South African distributor who 
struggled with the weakness of the Rand. 
Telematics for Insurance is a newer market 
and is currently experiencing high levels 
of growth. At the year end we had 92,025 
Insurance solution units reporting to our 
servers (2015: 44,468). Market forecasts are 
predicting growth rates in excess of 42% 
and we have certainly seen an increased 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2016Page Title at start:Content Section at start:In addition since the year end we have 
announced a new contract with Scottish 
Power to provide our telematics solution 
with driver feedback devices to 1,600 
vehicles and a contract with BT Fleet to 
market our telematics solutions to their 
business customers. We have also secured 
a 12 month contract extension from Shell, 
which has been RML largest customer in 
recent years. Furthermore, we have been 
awarded 2 initial contracts by Allianz, 
the global insurance company, to supply 
devices with uniquely developed software 
to Allianz’s Global Telematics business. The 
initial supply contract comes with a launch 
order of 5,000 devices to start the pipe filling 
for Allianz Insurance telematics in China. 

RECENT 
ACQUISITIONS 

In June 2015 the Group acquired  
the trade and assets of DCS Systems Ltd, 
a UK dash-cam supplier, to expand its 
offering	to	customers. 

Route Monkey Holdings Ltd,  
a	scheduling	and	optimisation	software	
provider, was acquired in December 
2015,	completing	Trakm8’s	fully	
comprehensive range of  
telematics	solutions. 

level of interest from established-insurance 
businesses. As a result the lifetime cost of 
an installed unit has dropped significantly 
over the last couple of years with a growing 
appetite from customers for richer data. 

We have invested in our First Notification 
of Loss (‘FNOL’) algorithms and are now 
able to identify the majority of crashes 
– particularly at speeds below 40 mph 
which are notoriously difficult to detect. 
According to the US National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration in excess of 
90% of insurance claims are due to driver 
error, and the ability to offer black-box 
data in conjunction with video footage 
of events leading up to an accident is 
proving to be a powerful driver to enable 
Insurance companies to reduce the cost 
and management of policyholder’s claims. 

We have accelerated the development  
of our Fleet Management solutions and 
believe we offer one of the widest ranges  
of solutions available in addition to camera 
and optimisation capabilities. We are now 
able to download and report on vehicle 
diagnostic data from in excess of 95% of 
all vehicles since 2006 and this is providing 
valuable information in particular for Fleet 
Managers and our roadside assistance 
customers. New contracts won during the 
year included Bibby Distribution and Kubota 
together with the contract extension we 
announced last December with the AA 
whereby our telematics solutions will be 
offered to the AA business customers.  
We were also delighted that RML secured a  
3-year contract extension with Iceland 
for their optimisation software.

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EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN’S  
STATEMENT CONTINUED

Products
Product sales are the sales of our hardware 
mainly to other telematics service providers 
and integrators. In addition the sales of the 
DCS camera products are now included 
together with the revenues from our  
contract electronic manufacturing facility  
in Coleshill, Birmingham. Total product 
revenues increased by 23% to £8.44m  
(2015: £6.87m) with £1.85m of this growth 
being accounted for by sales of camera 
products. Organic product sales reduced by 
£0.30m as we continue to focus on solutions 
sales to our own customers rather than 
lower margin product sales to 3rd parties. 

Reflecting this strategy, during the year our 
manufacturing facility made in excess of 
138,000 telematics units and it is anticipated 
this growth will continue. Manufacturing 
our own telematics units gives the Group 
a lower overall unit cost together with a 
much shorter time to market for introducing 
new products. For example, after only 
2 years of marketing the smallest self-fit 
telematics device, we are now developing 
our 4th version as we continue to refine the 
product and enhance the insights that can 
be gained from the richness of the data.

Research and Development
We operate in a competitive market where 
hardware costs are reducing, along with 
the costs of sending data over the mobile 
networks. At the same time customers are 
becoming increasingly aware of the variety 
and volumes of data that can be made 
available from telematics solutions and  
this is driving the market towards providing 
‘more for less’. We also exist in a fragmented 
market where there are many competitors 
with few barriers to entry. Trakm8 has always 
focussed on owning the IP for our products 
and solutions and we see this as one of our 
key competitive advantages. Telematics 
systems are complex but because we own 
all the elements that encompass a solution 
(with the exception of the mobile networks) 
we have the ability to understand and resolve 
problems more easily than our competitors. 

The Group has invested in a 44% increase  
in the average number of Engineers in  
our research & development teams to 59 
(2015: 41) during the year. We have rolled out 
our battery health monitoring algorithm and 
submitted an associated patent application. 
Our self-fit telematics device continues to 
be the smallest on the market and is now 
auto-configurable when plugged into a 
new vehicle. We have also reduced the 
time our installers require to fit our fixed 
wired devices. Our hosting architecture 
has also been developed so that we can 
now manage much larger quantities of 
devices using Amazon Web Services.

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We have continued to enhance our  
algorithms for the risk scoring of drivers  
for Insurance companies so that their 
premiums can be more accurately calculated 
to match the level of risk. Our acquisition of 
the DCS assets in June 2015 has given us 
a valuable insight into dash cams and later 
this year we will be launching an integrated 
telematics and camera product. This will 
enable users to receive an instant summary 
of events leading up to a crash incident 
including visual data from the camera and 
vehicle data from our telematics unit. 

During the year the Group initiated a  
data security audit by a 3rd party to 
understand the strengths and weaknesses 
in our system for collecting, transferring, 
storing and presenting the growing volumes 
of data we are now managing. Data security 
is very important to us and to all of our 
customers and we were pleased to gain 
accreditation with ISO 27001 – the standard 
for Information Security Management. 

Board Changes
During the year we made significant changes 
to our Board reflecting the need to strengthen 
and focus it as a result of our strong growth. 
First, Bill Duffy joined as an additional 
independent Non-Executive Director. 
Bill Duffy has considerable commercial 
experience having been CEO of Andrew 
Page, Halfords Autocentres and a number 
of other leading automotive aftermarket 
companies. He has also been a consultant 
to the Board over the past 12 months.

In addition Trakm8 appointed 2 of its 
executives to be Directors of the Group: 
Sean Morris, as Group Engineering Director 
and Mark Watkins as Group Operations 
Director. Sean Morris joined the Group 
following senior engineering positions at 
Continental UK, RAC and Aston Martin. 
Mark Watkins joined the Group following 
a successful career in IT and operations 
at Continental UK and Ford Motor Co.

Paul Wilson resigned from the Board in 
December but remains a senior Executive of 
the Group and we wish to thank him for his 
contribution over the past 6 years. He is now 
concentrating his efforts on supporting the 
AA Fleet Intelligence reseller opportunity.

Advisers
We were pleased to announce in April 2016 
the appointment of JP Morgan Cazenove as 
financial adviser to the Company. finnCap 
remain the Company’s broker and nominated 
adviser. This appointment reflected the 
Board’s belief that it is appropriate to broaden 
its advisory relationships given the evolution 
of the business and the telematics industry 
as a whole and to help us take the next 
steps in the Company’s development.

Dividend
In April 2016 we announced that the 
Board had considered the payment of 
a dividend in light of the Group’s strong 
financial performance and its confidence 
in Trakm8’s prospects. As a consequence 
the Board is proposing to pay a maiden 
dividend of 2 pence per share subject 
to shareholder approval at our Annual 
General Meeting in September 2016. 

People
The number of people we employ has  
grown rapidly as we have continued to  
invest strongly in our customer service,  
sales and marketing and engineering teams. 
In total our organic staff numbers have  
grown by 24% over the year and in addition 
we have welcomed 24 new colleagues from 
the DCS and RML acquisitions. 

It has been a demanding year as the Group 
has experienced rapid growth and I would 
like to thank everyone for their hard work, 
dedication and contribution to the ongoing 
success of the business.

Outlook
The Group has had a successful start to 
the new financial year consistent with its 
expectations for the year as a whole. The 
first 2 months have continued with the strong 
organic growth of previous years with orders 
received 57% greater than the corresponding 
period last year (organic 44%). Following the 
high level of investment in the business last 
year, we anticipate costs growing more slowly 
this year. We will also benefit from full year 
contributions from our 2 recent acquisitions.

The referendum decision to leave the 
European Union will inevitably lead to 
uncertainty both politically and commercially 
for some time. Uncertainty is always 
unwelcome and may lead to potential 
customers choosing to delay their investment 
decisions until the outlook becomes clearer. 
In addition recent currency movements 
may lead to additional costs for many of 
our components which are not priced in 
Sterling but equally our solutions will become 
more attractive to overseas customers. 

We have also recently announced 2 
contracts with Allianz, the global Insurance 
Company to provide the next generation of 
our self-fit telematics device together with 
the development of specific software to 
meet their requirements. These important 
contracts together with our strong pipeline 
of further opportunities provide additional 
visibility in our outlook for this year.

Therefore the Board remains optimistic of 
a positive outlook for the year as a whole. 

John Watkins
Executive Chairman

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OUR STRATEGY

Our main objective is to grow our 
recurring revenues from the provision 
of value added data services from our 
telematics solutions. These revenues 
are the bedrock of what we do and 
give us confidence to continue to invest 
in our expanding portfolio of solutions.

We intend to continue to own the 
Intellectual Property in our solutions  
as we are confident this gives us the 
best platform to develop new products 
and also to provide the best service to 
our customers.

OUR GOAL IS TO USE  
RICH DATA DERIVED FROM TELEMATICS 
TO GIVE OUR CUSTOMERS DEEPER 
INSIGHTS INTO THE OPERATION OF THEIR 
BUSINESS. WE ARE A DATA COMPANY 
WITH OUR PRIMARY FOCUS ON THE FLEET 
MANAGEMENT AND INSURANCE 
MARKETS. WE WILL CONTINUE TO 
DEVELOP OUR OWN HARDWARE AND 
SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS IN ORDER TO 
MAXIMISE THE BENEFITS THAT COMPLEX 
TELEMATICS SYSTEMS CAN PROVIDE.

We will continue to invest and develop 
our telematics products to provide 
world class products. We believe we 
have one of the most experienced 
teams of automotive Engineers working 
for any telematics Company and are 
therefore best placed to drive the 
quality of data that can be captured 
from all types of makes and models  
of vehicles.

We have recently launched 
Trakm8prime which is a low cost 
tracking solution for small fleets with no 
upfront hardware or installation costs. 
When we launched SWIFT 10 years 
ago it was initially aimed at small fleets 
and with Trakm8prime we intend to 
capture a bigger share of this market 
having eliminated the requirement  
for upfront costs and long term 
contract periods. 

We will continue to focus on the 
Insurance, Fleet Management and 
Automotive markets. The demand from 
Insurance companies is expected  
to grow in excess of 42% and our 
objective is to satisfy this demand  
by offering low cost self-fit devices, 
dashboard cameras together with our 
sophisticated driver risk profiling 
algorithms. In addition the Fleet 
Management market is still growing at 
15% per annum and we now offer 
additional rich diagnostic data and 
route optimisation and scheduling.

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STRATEGY IN ACTION

Case Study
FLEET IN FOCUS

‘THE INTRODUCTION OF TELEMATICS  
TO MONITOR DRIVING AND IDLING 
AMONGST THE AA’S 3,000 PATROL 
VEHICLES SAVED £1 MILLION IN THE 
FIRST YEAR ALONE.’

‘These are hard figures and excellent savings. We are now 
continuing to work together on pioneering solutions which will 
see the cost saving benefits of driver behaviour monitoring and 
preventative maintenance passed onto our own customers.’

Chris Bailey, Motoring Innovation Director, AA

How We Helped 
Trakm8 have worked alongside the AA for over 6 years, providing  
driver behaviour monitoring and vehicle tracking for their 3,000 roadside 
assistance and recovery vehicles; helping to deliver substantial savings 
on fuel expenditure. Ground-breaking diagnostic algorithms, including  
a highly accurate battery monitoring tool, are now assisting the AA’s 
customers to improve the overall efficiency of their fleet, whilst keeping 
downtime to a minimum. Through the joint development of intuitive  
web and mobile apps, the AA’s fleet vehicles, personal members and 
business customers are able to access in depth reports on costly  
driving styles and maintenance prognostics.

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12 months

£1m

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Case Study
INSURANCE 
IN FOCUS

‘OUR ABILITY TO MONITOR DRIVING 
BEHAVIOUR STYLES THROUGH 
TELEMATICS HAS ENABLED US  
TO PROVIDE DISCOUNTS TO OUR 
POLICYHOLDERS.’

‘The use of telematics technology gives us a fantastic opportunity 
to learn more about the driving habits of our policyholders and 
the risks they pose, which then enables us to provide comparative 
quotes. Our ability to monitor driving behaviour styles has 
enabled us to provide significant discounts to our policyholders, 
in particular to those who are under the age of 24.’

Paul Felton, Head of Telematics, Direct Line Group

How We Helped
Trakm8 provide telematics hardware, data services, and relevant 
support to Direct Line Group whose brands include; Direct Line, 
Privilege, Churchill, and Green Flag. Our self-install units collect driving 
behaviour, vehicle health, and journey data to assist in the calculation 
risk, the identification of potential accidents, and the technical problems 
associated with general vehicle health. Deriving value from the data has 
enabled Direct Line Group to provide discounts on Insurance premiums 
by 40% and empower its customers with meaningful insight into their 
vehicle health for an improved roadside recovery experience.

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50%

of under 25s take up a 
telematics policy over 
the phone 

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REPORT

STRONG REVENUE 
STREAMS

Finance director’s report

Adjusted Operating Profit Bridge
(before exceptional & share-based payment costs)

596

3,921

312

1,135

4,000

3,000

0
0
0
’
£

2,000

1,877

1,000

0

Y/e 31/3/15

Organic 
Growth

DCS 
Contribution

Route Monkey
Contribution

Y/e 31/3/16

Year end

Positive flow

James Hedges
Finance Director

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Adjusted Operating Profit
One of our key performance indicators is 
Adjusted Operating Profit (Operating Profit 
before exceptional costs and share-based 
payments). The growth in our Adjusted 
Operating Profit was 109% to £3.92m 
(2015: £1.88m) and the bridge chart above 
shows how this growth was achieved.

Overheads
Our overheads before exceptional costs 
increased by 39% to £8.76m (2015: £6.30m) 
reflecting a significant ramp up in expensed 
research and development, customer service, 
sales and marketing activities during the 
year. This led to a substantial increase in 
our average staff numbers over the year 
from 157 in 2014/15 to 224 in 2015/16. In 
total 24 staff members joined us as a result 
of the acquisitions of DCS and RML. The 
increase in our investment in new products 
and research and development over the year 
resulted in the capitalisation of development 
costs of £1.85m (2015: £0.86m) and the 
expensing of £1.00m (2015: £0.35m) in 
line with the accounting standards.

Trading Results
Revenues for the year were up by 44% at 
£25.65m (2015: £17.85m). Organic growth 
was 28% and this was supplemented by a 
£1.85m contribution from our acquisition of 
the DCS assets in June 2015 and a further 
£0.86m from the acquisition of RML at the 
end of December 2015. Sales of digital 
cameras have performed broadly in line 
with our expectations and RML revenues 
benefited from the contract renewal with 
Iceland in January 2016. Particularly pleasing 
was the 49% increase in our recurring 
revenues to £8.31m (2015: £5.58m). Our 
recurring revenues are reported as fees 
from service and data feeds only and do 
not include any amortised hardware costs 
for contracts which have been offered at 
a fixed monthly fee for a specific term.

Our gross margin percentage increased 
by 3.1% to 48.3% (2015: 45.2%). We would 
anticipate our gross margin percentage to 
increase in future years as the proportion 
of our recurring revenues increases and 
as we concentrate our manufacturing 
facility on making a more focused range of 
products. This, however, will be tempered 
by the increasing price pressure that exists 
in the telematics market towards lower 
cost hardware and richer data. Trakm8 is 
strongly placed to manage these demands 
through owning almost all of the intellectual 
property in its telematics solutions.

Trakm8 Holdings PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2016Page Title at start:Content Section at start:Cash-flow Bridge
(April 15 - Mar 16)

0
0
0
’
£

9,000

8,000

7,000

6,000

5,000

4,000

3,000

2,000

1,000

0

-1,000

-2,000

5,920

(6,206)

3,581

406

460

(108)

3,275

596

(2,461)

(1,087)

Net Cash 
at March 15

Organic Operating 
Cash-flow

DCS Contribution
 Cash-flow

RM Operating 
Cash-fow

Internet Paid

Acquisition of DCS 
Assets

Sales of Shares

Acquisition of 
RM inc Bank Loan

Capex and Capitalised
 Development Costs

Net Debt
 at March 16

Year end

Positive flow

Negative flow

Exceptional Costs
Exceptional costs consist of acquisition  
costs and integration costs. The acquisition 
costs related to the purchase of the trade  
and assets of DCS in June 2015 and 100%  
of the share capital of RML in December 
2015. The integration costs related to the 
reorganisation of management and integration 
of business systems and processes following 
the acquisitions. These costs have been 
included as part of Administration costs.

Profit Before Tax
Profit before tax has increased by 76% to 
£3.00m (2015: £1.70m). The tax credit for the 
year is £0.34m (2015: tax charge £0.00m). 
Profit before tax includes exceptional costs 
of £0.6m (2015: nil) which incurred in relation 
to the acquisition and integration costs of 
the trade and assets of DCS and RML.

The Group has tax losses of £6.32m 
to utilise in future periods.

Earnings Per Share
Basic earnings per share increased by 
91% to 11.15 pence (2015: 5.84 pence). 
Our adjusted earnings per share which 
is before exceptional costs and share-
based payments, increased by 115% 
to 13.44 pence (2015: 6.24 pence).

Balance Sheet, Financing  
and Cash-flow
Our intangible non-current assets grew by 
£10.34m as a result of the 2 acquisitions we 
completed during the year together with our 
increased investment in development costs. 
Goodwill arising from the DCS acquisition 
was £2.18m with a further £0.32m intangibles 
relating to acquired development costs. 
The acquisition of RML created £5.59m 
of goodwill and in addition we acquired 
£0.98m of algorithms and related software. 

Total cash generated from operations during  
the year was an excellent £4.45m (2015: £1.19m) 
representing 114% of Adjusted Operating Profit 
(2015: 63%). Free cash-flow conversion, after 
capex and capitalised development costs, 
was 51% (2015: -1%). As a result we ended 
the year with total cash of £3.87m set against 
total borrowings of £4.96m, giving overall a 
net debt of £1.09m (2015: net cash £0.60m). 

The bridge graph above shows a summary 
of our net cash movements over the year.

A new 5-year bank facility was taken out 
with HSBC in December to replace existing 
facilities and to complete the acquisition 
of RML. In addition a new £5m revolving 
credit facility was granted by HSBC and 
this facility has yet to be drawn down. 

In addition to this facility, to fund the RML 
acquisition 1,801,802 new ordinary shares 
were placed with institutional investors at a 
price of 333 pence, to raise £6m. 184,441 
new ordinary shares were also issued 
as part of the consideration to the senior 
management shareholders of RML.

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KEY PERFORMANCE  
INDICATORS	(KPIs)

CORPORATE SOCIAL  
RESPONSIBILITY 

Trakm8 understands that 
it has a responsibility to 
understand and meet the 
needs of all the stakeholders 
involved in the business, 
including suppliers, customers, 
employees and shareholders.

Through interaction with 
these parties, the Group 
endeavours to have a positive 
impact on both society and the 
environment whilst achieving 
our commercial objectives. 

The Audit and Risk Committee 
annually review the Risk Register 
to ensure Corporate and Social 
Responsibility is integral to 
the way the business is run. 

The Board monitors the following KPIs to ensure the objectives of the Group 
are being achieved:

2016

2015

£3.92m 

£1.88m

Adjusted Operating Profit (£m)

Adjusted Operating Profit (before exceptional 
costs and share-based payments). The Group is 
pleased to note the 105% increase over the year. 
Furthermore with a full year contribution from our 
DCS and RML acquisitions we expect further 
growth in 2016/17.

Gross Margin (%)

48.3%

45.2%

Our margin increased by 3.1% compared  
to last year helped by the increase in our  
recurring revenues.

Invoiced Units – Insurance

92,025

44,468

Units being invoiced for the insurance market 
demand more than doubled in the year. The  
service fees per unit are lower than those in  
the Fleet Management sector but the market  
is growing much faster.

Invoiced Units – Fleet Management

58,522

57,763

The total number of units under Fleet Management 
only increased marginally over the year. However, 
our South African distributor has been struggling 
from the weakness of the Rand and this accounted 
for the loss of nearly 5,000 units. Excluding South 
Africa our invoiced units increased by 10.8%.

Recurring Revenues (£m)

£8.31m

£5.58m

Total recurring revenues earned during the 
year increased by 49% to £8.31m driven by the 
increased numbers of units reporting to our servers.

Cash Generated from Operating Activities 
(£m)

£4.45m

£1.19m

Our cash generation over the year was very  
strong at £4.45m driven by the strong increase  
in Operating Profits. 

Adjusted Operating Profit Conversion  
to Cash

Cash-flow conversion

Free cash-flow conversion (after capex and 
capitalised development costs)

114%

51%

63%

-1%

These measures demonstrate the improvement in the Group’s ability to 
convert Adjusted Operating Profits into cash.

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RESPONSIBILITY 

Corporate social 

responsibility

People
Recruitment, Development and Retention
Employees are recruited by the in-house recruitment specialist who 
understands the fast paced environment that Trakm8 operates in.  
The Group provides interesting and varied work to its employees with 
a strong emphasis on the development of its people and gradually 
increasing responsibility of roles if desired by employees. The benefits 
provided by the Company match that of comparative organisations in 
this sector. 

Managers are encouraged to have regular one to one meetings  
with their teams to ensure employees are satisfied in their field  
of work. Such a diverse business spreading across a number of 
sectors enables Trakm8 to support its employees through a number 
of different career paths, such as customer service, sales, marketing 
or engineering. 

Employees are encouraged to apply for internal vacancies and  
many staff have developed from junior roles progressing to a  
senior management position.

Long-serving employees are rewarded with additional annual  
leave allowances, whilst those who are deemed exceptional  
receive share options that can be exercised between 3 and 10  
years after issue.

Communication
Employees receive a monthly communication from the Executive 
Chairman that provides information about order entry against budget, 
significant changes to staffing and the results of the exceptional 
employee of the month award. Employees are nominated for this 
award by their colleagues or managers and receive a £250 bonus in 
their pay for demonstrating commitment and performance beyond 
the day-to-day demands of their role. 

Employee Share Scheme
This financial year saw the introduction of a Company-wide share 
save scheme run by the Yorkshire Building Society. Share options 
were granted at £1.83 and are subject to normal CGT taxation limits. 

Environment 
Trakm8’s solutions are in themselves designed to positively impact 
the environment through lower fuel costs, lower accident rates, fewer 
vehicles to undertake the same service delivery and lower costs of 
maintenance. Trakm8 estimates it has helped its customers save  
over 59,000 tonnes of CO2 in the past year. 

As part of our ISO14001:2004 certificate renewal, Trakm8 took the 
opportunity to transition from individual Company accreditations  
to a single, Group-wide accreditation. This reflects the continued 
efforts to integrate and centralise Group operations with a single 
Management System deployed across the whole Group. We expect 
to complete the transition to ISO14001:2015 accreditation during the 
next 12 months.

Following the acquisition of the DCS Systems’ business in Bodmin,  
a full environmental aspects and impacts review was conducted and 
the necessary controls and processes put in place. This resulted in 
the successful inclusion of the Bodmin site under the Group ISO 
environmental accreditation.

The Group also holds the ISO 18001 accreditation for Occupational 
Health and Safety.

Environmental improvements 
over last 12 months/coming 12 months

•  The Group has continued to monitor fuel and natural  
resource usage, including the Company fleet vehicles  
with a view to targeting reductions wherever possible. This 
monitoring also included a full review of chemical usage within 
the Group to rationalise and reduce the number of chemicals 
used within our products and processes. Examples include 
the replacement of rosin-based solder with a safer, non-rosin 
based alternative helping to reduce overall environmental 
impact and improve the working conditions of our employees. 
The Group is also updating all lighting to LED at the head 
office in Shaftesbury.

•  The Group relocated several compressor units at the Coleshill 

manufacturing site to improve the working environment 
through a reduction of background noise levels.

•  During the next 12 months, there will be a project to reduce 
the amount of fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-Gas) used 
through a replacement of the air-conditioning system at our 
Coleshill site. This will have the added benefit of providing  
our staff with a much enhanced working environment.

•  The Group continues our measurement of fuel and  

natural resource usage to drive further improvements  
in environmental performance.

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RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK &  
PRINCIPAL RISKS & UNCERTAINTIES

No

1

Risk description

Significant operational 
system failure 

Potential impact

Mitigating action

Our strategy is to move our operational systems into the Cloud. Our systems are both within the  

Cloud and within a traditional data centre environment.

•  Reputational impact

•  Deterioration in  

customer relations

•  Liability claims

profitability and cash 

generation

•  Reduction in revenues,  

suppliers and replication of data between data centres. Daily point in time backups are taken offsite. 

Non-Cloud-based services: We provide no single point of failure. Diversity of data centres from separate 

Cloud based: This does not require symmetric hardware between data centres because it only takes 

minutes to deploy replacement server(s). To this end we ensure the data is backed up over separate  

Cloud regions.

2

3

4

5

Attracting, maintaining and 
motivating highly skilled 
Engineers and developers

•  Loss of key personnel

We provide interesting work within a growing business and maintaining this is key to employee retention. 

•  Potential business disruption

We continue to improve the working environment and have engaged with our staff to incorporate their 

•  Breakdown of communication  

ideas. Key tasks and background knowledge of our bespoke systems have been spread across a larger 

and misalignment

pool of individuals to mitigate the risk of any loss from a key individual leaving the business.

Competitors taking an 
increasing market share 
due to our failure to 
develop our products 

A deterioration in the 
economic climate

Adverse mobile  
network changes

6

Cyber attack and  
data security

We commissioned a 3rd party audit of our data security and are carrying out their recommendations.  

We are also accredited for ISO27001 – Information Security. 

7

Access to finance and debt

•  Constrained sales growth 

We have been conservative in raising debt finance and look to maintain sensible levels of cash balances. 

affecting operating profit

We closely monitor cash generated from our operations together with new investments in fixed assets  

•  Delays in investing in new 

and capitalised development costs. 

products and services

8

Brexit

•  Delays in new orders/cost 

We will closely monitor our sales pipeline for delays in investment decisions together with the impact  

increases)

of exchange rate fluctuations on component costs resulting from the increased market uncertainties. 

•  Decelerating sales growth 

We have a senior leadership team and an expanded breadth and depth of the product and planning 

affecting operating profit

functions with strong innovation skills. We believe we have the resources and innovation to stay in the 

•  Delay in achieving projected 

forefront of technology.

revenues

•  Decelerating sales growth 

Daily monitoring of sales orders, invoicing and cash flow. Monthly reviews of overheads against budget. 

affecting operating profit

Tight control of all accounts to ensure they do not become overdue.

We use a mix of mobile network suppliers, so in the event of a mobile outage all of the installed service 

base would not be affected.

•  Reduction in revenues, 

We provide a configuration manager which allows remote upgrade of the installed base and this can  

profitability and cash 

be used to address system-wide issues as long as basic GPRS communications exist.

We rely on the mobile phone suppliers to provide a quality of service and investment in suitable reliable 

infrastructure. The same is true for the GPS network (we don’t own our own satellites) and the Internet (we 

rely on a diverse interconnected network which is supplied by 3rd parties). 

•  Reputational impact

•  Deterioration in  

customer relations

generation

•  Reputational impact

•  Deterioration in  

customer relations

•  Liability claims

THE BOARD TAKES OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY 
FOR RISK MANAGEMENT, DETERMINING THE 
NATURE AND EXTENT OF THE PRINCIPAL RISKS 
IT IS WILLING TO TAKE IN ACHIEVING TRAKM8’S 
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND OVERSEEING THE 
GROUP’S RISK GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE AND 
INTERNAL CONTROL FRAMEWORK.

During the year to March 2016, the Board  
has carried out a robust assessment of the 
principal risks facing the Group, including 
those that would threaten its business model, 
future performance, solvency or liquidity.  
This Report summarises those risks and  
how they are being managed or mitigated. 

The Board reviews the output of this process. 

To enable value to be created for our 
shareholders, we set varying risk tolerances 
and associated criteria. We accept risk  
and manage our risk environment on the  
following basis:

The Board has delegated responsibility  
for reviewing and ensuring the effectiveness 
of the risk management process to the 
Executive Chairman and the senior 
management team. The Group Risk Register 
is subject to a detailed review and discussion 
by this Group including discussion of risks 
which may not have been identified through 
the normal channels. This Group identifies  
all the key risks to the business and ensures 
our elimination and mitigation processes  
are robust and up to date to minimise  
any potential impact. Risk identification is 
embedded in other processes, including 
product development, contract approvals  
and other operational activities. Trakm8’s 
corporate strategy is designed to optimise  
our business model and accept risk, with  
the required controls on an informed basis.

•  Strategic – medium to low tolerance  
for risks arising from poor business 
decisions or sub-standard execution  
of business objectives.

•  Operational – low to near-zero tolerance 
for risks arising from business processes 
including the technical, quality, and  
project management or organisational  
risk associated with programmes  
and products.

•  Corporate – low to near-zero tolerance  
for compliance and reputational risks 
including those related to the law, health, 
safety and the environment.

•  Financial – zero tolerance for financial  

risks including failure to provide adequate 
liquidity to meet our obligations and 
manage currency, interest rate and  
credit risks.

By order of the Board 

James Hedges
Company Secretary
8 July 2016

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1

Risk description

Significant operational 

system failure 

2

3

4

5

Competitors taking an 

increasing market share 

due to our failure to 

develop our products 

A deterioration in the 

economic climate

Adverse mobile  

network changes

Potential impact

Mitigating action

•  Reputational impact
•  Deterioration in  

customer relations

•  Liability claims
•  Reduction in revenues,  
profitability and cash 
generation

Our strategy is to move our operational systems into the Cloud. Our systems are both within the  
Cloud and within a traditional data centre environment.

Non-Cloud-based services: We provide no single point of failure. Diversity of data centres from separate 
suppliers and replication of data between data centres. Daily point in time backups are taken offsite. 

Cloud based: This does not require symmetric hardware between data centres because it only takes 
minutes to deploy replacement server(s). To this end we ensure the data is backed up over separate  
Cloud regions.

Attracting, maintaining and 

motivating highly skilled 

Engineers and developers

•  Loss of key personnel
•  Potential business disruption
•  Breakdown of communication  

and misalignment

We provide interesting work within a growing business and maintaining this is key to employee retention. 
We continue to improve the working environment and have engaged with our staff to incorporate their 
ideas. Key tasks and background knowledge of our bespoke systems have been spread across a larger 
pool of individuals to mitigate the risk of any loss from a key individual leaving the business.

•  Decelerating sales growth 
affecting operating profit
•  Delay in achieving projected 

We have a senior leadership team and an expanded breadth and depth of the product and planning 
functions with strong innovation skills. We believe we have the resources and innovation to stay in the 
forefront of technology.

revenues

•  Decelerating sales growth 
affecting operating profit

Daily monitoring of sales orders, invoicing and cash flow. Monthly reviews of overheads against budget. 
Tight control of all accounts to ensure they do not become overdue.

•  Reputational impact
•  Deterioration in  

customer relations
•  Reduction in revenues, 
profitability and cash 
generation

We use a mix of mobile network suppliers, so in the event of a mobile outage all of the installed service 
base would not be affected.

We provide a configuration manager which allows remote upgrade of the installed base and this can  
be used to address system-wide issues as long as basic GPRS communications exist.

We rely on the mobile phone suppliers to provide a quality of service and investment in suitable reliable 
infrastructure. The same is true for the GPS network (we don’t own our own satellites) and the Internet (we 
rely on a diverse interconnected network which is supplied by 3rd parties). 

6

Cyber attack and  

data security

•  Reputational impact
•  Deterioration in  

customer relations

•  Liability claims

We commissioned a 3rd party audit of our data security and are carrying out their recommendations.  
We are also accredited for ISO27001 – Information Security. 

7

Access to finance and debt

•  Constrained sales growth 
affecting operating profit
•  Delays in investing in new 
products and services

We have been conservative in raising debt finance and look to maintain sensible levels of cash balances. 
We closely monitor cash generated from our operations together with new investments in fixed assets  
and capitalised development costs. 

8

Brexit

•  Delays in new orders/cost 

increases)

We will closely monitor our sales pipeline for delays in investment decisions together with the impact  
of exchange rate fluctuations on component costs resulting from the increased market uncertainties. 

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Report

The board of directors

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

John Watkins
Executive Chairman

Keith Evans 
Non-Executive

Bill Duffy
Non-Executive

John Watkins has a Master’s degree  
in Engineering Science from Oxford 
University and considerable engineering 
and international sales experience.  
He has been a Director of several public 
companies, Managing Director of a wide 
range of private and subsidiaries/divisions  
of public companies and Chairman of 2 very 
successful private equity companies that 
exited with significantly better than average 
IRRs.

Keith Evans is a former partner for over  
25 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers with 
very extensive experience of commercial 
and financial roles, having worked with 
companies operating in the financial 
services, automotive and information 
technology sectors.

James Hedges
Financial Director

Bill Duffy started working with the Company 
in April 2014 supporting the business and 
strategy development as a Consultant and 
joined the Board in July 2015.

Mark Watkins
Group Operations Director

Bill Duffy also runs his own consultancy 
business and is a Director of eConnect  
Cars Limited a pioneering electric car 
Company. He was formerly CEO of  
Andrew Page Limited and CEO of Halfords 
Autocentres Limited. He has extensive 
strategic and operational capability in the 
automotive sector and successful private 
equity experience.

James Hedges was appointed Finance 
Director in 2008. James is an engineering 
graduate who qualified as a chartered 
accountant with KMG Thompson McLintock 
(now KPMG) in 1983. He has since gained 
extensive experience in a variety of different 
industries. He has worked in venture capital, 
property, on Private Finance Initiatives  
as well as for a number of technology 
companies. He was Non-Executive Director 
of System C Healthcare for 10 years before 
it floated on AIM.

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Mark Watkins has a Master’s degree  in 
Engineering and worked for Ford Motor Co 
in the Group IT team. He has previously 
held positions in IT and Operations having 
been Head of Manufacturing Operations at 
Continental UK for several years. In 2014  
he joined Trakm8 Holdings as Managing 
Director of BOX Telematics following its 
acquisition and is now Group COO 
responsible for all operational matters.

Trakm8 Holdings PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2016Page Title at start:Content Section at start:Matt Cowley
Big Data Director

Sean Morris
Group Engineering Director

One of the founders of Trakm8 along with  
his brother Tim Cowley, Matt Cowley is a 
highly experienced software Engineering 
Director with over 25 years’ experience 
within the Telematics and 
Telecommunications industry. Matt Cowley 
now leads the in-house Big Data team and 
is passionate about algorithms, machine 
learning, computer vision and data science.

Tim Cowley
Group Strategy Director 

Sean Morris has more than 30 years’ 
experience in the automotive, electrical and 
electronic engineering and joined Trakm8  
in 2014. As Group Engineering Director,  
he has responsibility for all engineering 
across the Group and has previously held 
senior engineering positions at BMW, 
Honda, Land Rover and was Chief Engineer 
Electrical & Electronics of Aston Martin.

Tim Cowley has 30 years’ experience in the 
Engineering & Technology sector. After 
graduating with a degree in Electronics 
Engineering in 1988 from Brunel University, 
Tim Cowley was awarded a prestigious 
Michael Cobham scholarship, and stayed 
with the Cobham Group for 11 years. 
Alongside his brother Matt Cowley,  
he founded Trakm8 is 2002 and is  
now responsible for the Group Product 
Strategy and the Advanced Engineering 
function, as well as overseeing the acquired 
DCS business. 

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GOVERNANCE REPORT

Board of Directors and Committees 
The Board of Trakm8 Holdings PLC is responsible for the strategic direction of the Group’s businesses. The Board’s specific roles include 
corporate governance policy and direction; as well as strategy formation and monitoring the achievement of the Group against the business 
plan. The day-to-day management of the Group is the responsibility of the team of Executive Directors and the Executive Chairman. The Board 
meetings of Trakm8 Holdings PLC cover matters required to be covered by the Boards of the Group’s subsidiary entities.

During the year 3 new Directors were appointed to the Board on the 1st July 2015 to enhance its corporate governance and ensure the 
management team implement the Group’s growth plans and integrate acquisitions successfully. Bill Duffy has joined as an independent 
Non-Executive Director together with Sean Morris (Group Engineering Director) and Mark Watkins (Managing Director of BOX Telematics). Paul 
Wilson resigned from the Board on the 15 December 2015 to take up a new role within the Group relating to our contract extension with 
the AA.

The Board has operated Audit and Risk, Remuneration and Nomination Committees throughout the period. These bodies operate under 
formally delegated duties and responsibilities and seek advice from independent 3rd parties as the need arises. The committees during the 
year have comprised of; Remuneration Committee, 2 Non-Executive Directors and the Executive Chairman, Audit and Risk Committee and 
Nomination Committee, 1 Non-Executive Director and the Executive Chairman. 

For the financial year ended 31 March 2016 the Directors’ attendance at Board and Committee meetings has been as follows:

Type

Total held in period

Keith Evans
Matt Cowley
Tim Cowley
James Hedges 
John Watkins 
Paul Wilson2
Bill Duffy1
Sean Morris1
Mark Watkins1

1 Appointed 1 July 2015
2 Resigned 15 December 2015

Board

Audit and 
Risk

Nomination Remuneration

16

14
16
16
16
16
12
12
13
12

1

1
–
–
–
1
–
–
–
–

1

1
–
–
–
1
–
–
–
–

2

2
–
–
–
2
–
2
–
–

Nominations Committee
The committee met in May 2015 and decided to strengthen the Board by appointing Bill Duffy as an additional independent Non-Executive 
Director. Bill Duffy has considerable commercial experience having been CEO of Andrew Page, Halfords Autocentres and a number of other 
leading automotive aftermarket companies. 

In addition we have appointed 2 Executives to be Directors of the Group: Sean Morris, as Group Engineering Director and Mark Watkins as 
Group Operations Director. Sean Morris joined the Group in 2014 following senior engineering positions at Continental UK, RAC and Aston 
Martin. Mark Watkins also joined in 2014 as the Managing Director of BOX Telematics following a successful career in IT and operations at 
Continental UK and Ford Motor Co.

Audit and Risk Committee
The Audit and Risk Committee is responsible for ensuring that the Group’s financial performance is properly monitored, controlled and 
reported. The Finance Director and other Directors attend as required. 

The committee and the external auditor have safeguards to avoid a potential compromise of auditor’s objectivity and independence. These 
include the adoption of a policy that segregates the supply of audit and non-audit services and requires committee approval for the supply of 
services such as tax services and acquisition related due diligence.

The key issues considered by the Audit and Risk Committee included revenue recognition, impairment review of goodwill acquired, fair value of 
acquired intangibles in business combinations, recognition of contingent consideration and capitalisation of development costs.

Remuneration Committee
The Remuneration Committee’s terms of reference include making recommendations on Directors’ compensation packages to ensure that the 
Group enjoys and retains an appropriate level of motivated resources. The Committee engages with external consultants as and where it is 
deemed beneficial.

The Group has adopted and operates a share dealing code for Directors and employees in accordance with the requirements of the 
combined code. 

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The Board values and attaches the utmost importance to the maintenance of good relationships with shareholders. The Executive Chairman 
and the Finance Director meet investors immediately after publication of the annual and interim results, at the Annual General Meeting and on 
an ongoing basis as required throughout the year. In addition we provided a number of shareholders update presentations and the intention is 
to continue this programme during the current financial year. 

By order of the Board

James Hedges 
Company Secretary
8 July 2016

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Directors’ report

Future Developments
Consideration on the future developments and exciting prospects of 
the Group, has been made in the Executive Chairman’s Statement in 
the Strategic Report. The Group expects to expand the Fleet 
Management and Insurance solutions with the integration of camera 
and route optimisation technologies. The Group also expects that the 
enlarged sales and marketing teams will continue to generate organic 
growth in the UK and international markets. Further acquisitions will 
be assessed based on our strict criteria of increasing recurring 
revenues and being cash generative.

Directors
The Directors of the Company who were in office during the year and 
up to the date of signing the financial statements unless otherwise 
stated were:

John Watkins

Keith Evans 

Bill Duffy 

Matt Cowley

Tim Cowley

James Hedges

Sean Morris 

Mark Watkins 

Paul Wilson

Appointed on 1 July 2015

Appointed on 1 July 2015

Appointed on 1 July 2015

Resigned on 15 December 2015

DIRECTORS’ REPORT

Directors’ Report
The Directors submit their Directors’ Report and the audited financial 
statements of the Group for the year ended 31 March 2016.

Trakm8 Holdings PLC is a public listed Company incorporated and 
domiciled in England (Company Number 05452547) whose shares 
are quoted on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock 
Exchange PLC.

Principal Activities
The principal activities of the Trakm8 Group are the manufacture, 
marketing and distribution of vehicle and plant telematics equipment 
and services. Trakm8 Holdings PLC is the holding Company for the 
Trakm8 Group.

Financial Risk Management
The Group manages its key financial risks as follows. Further details 
can be found in Note 27.

Liquidity Risk
The Group’s objective is to maintain a balance between continuity 
and flexibility of funding through the use of borrowings and financial 
assets with a range of maturities. It is also the Group’s policy to 
mitigate the risk of borrowings by maintaining cash reserves. The 
Group currently has an unused revolving bank credit facility of £5m.

Currency Risk
The Group endeavours to minimise its foreign currency exposure by 
trading in Sterling wherever possible. The 2 principal foreign 
currencies used are the US Dollar and the Euro and where possible 
we endeavour to match inflows and outflows.

Credit and Cash Risk
The Group’s credit risk is primarily attributable to its trade receivables 
and the Group attaches considerable importance to the collection 
and management of trade receivables. The Group minimises its credit 
risk through the application of appropriate credit limits. The risk 
associated with our cash reserves is closely monitored and deposits 
are only placed with banks that have suitable external credit ratings. 

Results and Dividends
The Group results for the year ended 31 March 2016 are shown in the 
consolidated statement of comprehensive income on page 36. The 
Directors recommend the payment of a final dividend of 2.0p per 
ordinary 1p share (2015: 0.0p), to be paid on 13 September 2016 to 
those members on the register at close of business on 
26 August 2016.

Research and Development
The Group has continued to expand the investment in research and 
development to ensure the future success of the business. During the 
year we capitalised development costs of £1,852,639 and a further 
£1,002,096 was expensed. The Group broadened the capability of 
the development team and established new leadership in order to 
further enhance the Group’s development resources and products for 
future years. Further details about the Group’s approach to R&D can 
be found in the Strategic Report on page 12.

Going Concern
The Directors Report that, having reviewed current performance and 
forecasts, they have a reasonable expectation that the Group has 
adequate resources to continue its operations for the foreseeable 
future. For this reason they have continued to adopt the going 
concern basis in preparing the financial statements.

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At 31 March 2016 the Directors’ interests in the shares of the Company are detailed below:

This table is audited

Matt Cowley 
Tim Cowley 
James Hedges
John Watkins
Paul Wilson2
Sean Morris1
Mark Watkins1
Bill Duffy1

1 Appointed 1 July 2015
2 Resigned 15 December 2015

1p ordinary shares
at 31 March 2016

% of issued
ordinary share capital 
(32,035,064 ordinary shares)

1p ordinary shares
at 1 April 2015

% of issued
ordinary share capital 
(28,973,821 ordinary shares)

1,590,357
1,857,638
2,142,626
5,774,344
–
–
250,128
20,000

4.96%
5.80%
6.69%
18.03%
–
–
0.78%
0.06%

1,540,357
1,897,638
2,152,626
6,149,344
691,876
–
–
–

5.32%
6.55%
7.43%
21.22%
2.39%
–
–
–

The Directors had no interest in the share capital of the Company’s subsidiary undertakings at 31 March 2016 or on the date on which these 
financial statements were approved.

Directors’ Remuneration
The Directors’ remuneration for the year ended 31 March 2016 was:

Salaries &
 benefits
£

31,000
91,342
105,662
128,790
216,718
65,800
84,540
84,764
24,000

832,616

Fees
£

130,000
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
22,500

152,500

Options 
exercised
£

–
239,250
239,250
319,000
438,625
239,250
–
–
–

1,475,375

Total aggregate 
emoluments to year 
ended
31 March 2016 
 £

Total aggregate 
emoluments to year 
ended
31 March 2015 
 £

Pension 
contributions
£

124
428
500
3,822
–
1,750
2,798
–
–

9,422

161,124
331,020
345,412
451,612
655,343
306,800
87,338
84,764
46,500

2,469,913

28,000
95,083
109,854
112,376
202,678
103,782
–
–
–

651,773

Keith Evans
Matt Cowley
Tim Cowley
James Hedges 
John Watkins 
Paul Wilson2 
Sean Morris1
Mark Watkins1
Bill Duffy1

Total

1 Appointed 1 July 2015
2 Resigned 15 December 2015

The additional fees paid to Keith Evans (Non-Executive Director) were in relation to the acquisitions of the trade and assets of DCS and the 
acquisition of RML. Bill Duffy provided further consultancy services in addition to his role as a Non-Executive Director.

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CONTINUED

Directors’ Share Options
At 31 March 2016 the following options had been granted to the Company’s Directors and remain current and unexercised:

Option exercise 
price

Balance as at 
1 April 2015

Granted during 
year

Exercised during 
year

Expired/forfeited 
during year

Balance as at 31 
March 2016

Date exercisable 
from

£0.130
£0.445
£1.925

£0.130
£0.445
£1.925

£0.130
£0.445
£1.925
£1.830

£0.130
£0.445
£1.925
£1.830

£0.130
£0.445
£1.925

 £0.875
£1.925

 £0.578
£1.925

150,000
125,000
–

150,000
125,000
–

200,000
125,000
–
–

275,000
250,000
–
–

150,000
50,000
–

175,000
–

200,000
–

–
–
25,000

–
–
50,000

–
–
75,000
9,836

–
–
225,000
9,836

–
–
25,000

–
75,000

–
75,000

(150,000)
–
–

(150,000)
–
–

(200,000)
–
–
–

(275,000)
–
–
–

(150,000)
–
–

–
–

–
–

Matt Cowley

Tim Cowley

James Hedges

John Watkins

Paul Wilson2 

Sean Morris1

Mark Watkins1

1 Appointed 1 July 2015
2 Resigned 15 December 2015

–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
–

–
–

–
–

– 
125,000 
25,000 

–
22/01/2017
22/09/2018

 – 
 125,000 
 50,000 

 – 
 125,000 
 75,000 
9,836

 – 
 250,000 
 225,000 
9,836

22/01/2017
22/09/2018

22/01/2017
22/09/2018
01/10/2018

22/01/2017
22/09/2018
01/10/2018

–
50,000
25,000

22/01/2017
22/09/2018

Expiry date

30/07/2022
21/01/2024
21/09/2025

30/07/2022
21/01/2024
21/09/2025

30/07/2022
21/01/2024
21/09/2025
31/03/2019

30/07/2022
21/01/2024
21/09/2025
31/03/2019

30/07/2022
21/01/2024
21/09/2025

 175,000 
 75,000 

18/12/2017
22/09/2018

17/12/2024
21/09/2025

 200,000 
 75,000 

07/04/2017
22/09/2018

06/04/2024
21/09/2025

All share options were issued at the open market price on the day the options were granted.

The Group provides qualifying 3rd party indemnity provisions for the Directors which was in place throughout the year and has remained in 
place since the year end.

Treasury Shares
At 1 April 2015 the Company held 75,000 of its own 1p ordinary shares. During the year 46,000 of these shares were sold for a total 
consideration of £72,680 leaving 29,000 held by the Company as at 31 March 2016 (representing 0.09% of the called up share capital).

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Statement as to Disclosure of Information to the 
Auditors
The Directors who were in office on the date of approval of these 
financial statements have confirmed, as far as they are aware, that 
there is no relevant audit information of which the auditors are 
unaware. Each of the Directors has confirmed that they have taken all 
the steps that they ought to have taken as Directors in order to make 
themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish 
that it has been communicated to the auditor.

Statement of Directors’ Responsibilities
The Directors are responsible for preparing the Annual Report  
and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law  
and regulations.

Company law requires the Directors to prepare financial statements 
for each financial year. Under that law the Directors have prepared the 
Group financial statements in accordance with International Financial 
Reporting Standards (‘IFRSs’) as adopted by the European Union, 
and the Parent Company financial statements in accordance with 
United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice, including 
Financial Reporting Standard 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework 
(‘FRS 101’). 

Under Company law the Directors must not approve the financial 
statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view 
of the state of affairs of the Group and the Company and of the profit 
or loss of the Group for that period. In preparing these financial 
statements, the Directors are required to:
•  select suitable accounting policies and then apply  

them consistently;

•  make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable 

and prudent;

•  state whether IFRSs as adopted by the European Union and 

applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject 
to any material departures disclosed and explained in the Group 
and Parent Company financial statements respectively;

•  notify the Company’s shareholders in writing about the use of 

disclosure exemptions, if any, of FRS 101 used in the preparation 
of financial statements; and

•  prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis 
unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Company will 
continue in business.

The Directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting 
records that are sufficient to show and explain the Company’s 
transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the 
financial position of the Company and enable them to ensure that the 
financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are 
also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company and the 
Group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and 
detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the 
Company’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the 
preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from 
legislation in other jurisdictions.

Independent Auditors
A resolution to appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Chartered 
Accountants, as auditors, will be put to the members at the Annual 
General Meeting.

By approval of the Board on 8 July 2016

James Hedges  
Company Secretary

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TO THE MEMBERS OF TRAKM8 HOLDINGS PLC

Report on the Group Financial Statements
Our Opinion
In our opinion, Trakm8 Holdings PLC’s Group financial statements 
(the ‘financial statements’):
•  give a true and fair view of the state of the Group’s affairs as at 
31 March 2016 and of its profit and cash flows for the year then 
ended;

•  have been properly prepared in accordance with International 
Financial Reporting Standards (‘IFRSs’) as adopted by the 
European Union; and

•  have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the 

Companies Act 2006.

What We Have Audited
The financial statements, included within the Annual Report and 
Financial Statements (the ‘Annual Report’), comprise:
• 
• 

the consolidated statement of financial position as at 31 March 2016;
the consolidated statement of comprehensive income for the year 
then ended;
the consolidated statement of cash flows for the year then ended;
the consolidated statement of changes in equity for the year then 
ended; and
the notes to the financial statements, which include a summary of 
significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.

• 
• 

• 

Certain required disclosures have been presented elsewhere in the 
Annual Report, rather than in the notes to the financial statements. 
These are cross-referenced from the financial statements and are 
identified as audited.

The financial reporting framework that has been applied in the 
preparation of the financial statements is IFRSs as adopted by the 
European Union and applicable law.

Financial 

Statements

Independent auditor’s report

Responsibilities for the Financial Statements and the 
Audit Our Responsibilities and Those of the Directors
As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors’ Responsibilities 
set out on page 31, the Directors are responsible for the preparation 
of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true 
and fair view.

Our responsibility is to audit and express an opinion on the financial 
statements in accordance with applicable law and International 
Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland) (‘ISAs (UK & Ireland)’). Those 
standards require us to comply with the Auditing Practices Board’s 
Ethical Standards for Auditors.

This report, including the opinions, has been prepared for and only for 
the Parent Company’s members as a body in accordance with 
Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006 and for no other 
purpose. We do not, in giving these opinions, accept or assume 
responsibility for any other purpose or to any other person to whom 
this report is shown or into whose hands it may come save where 
expressly agreed by our prior consent in writing.

What an Audit of Financial Statements Involves
We conducted our audit in accordance with ISAs (UK & Ireland). An 
audit involves obtaining evidence about the amounts and disclosures 
in the financial statements sufficient to give reasonable assurance that 
the financial statements are free from material misstatement, whether 
caused by fraud or error. This includes an assessment of: 
•  whether the accounting policies are appropriate to the Group’s 

circumstances and have been consistently applied and 
adequately disclosed; 
the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by 
the Directors; and 
the overall presentation of the financial statements. 

• 

• 

In applying the financial reporting framework, the Directors have 
made a number of subjective judgements, for example in respect of 
significant accounting estimates. In making such estimates, they have 
made assumptions and considered future events.

We primarily focus our work in these areas by assessing the 
Directors’ judgements against available evidence, forming our own 
judgements, and evaluating the disclosures in the 
financial statements.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the 
Companies Act 2006
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
the information given in the Strategic Report and the Directors’ 
• 
Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are 
prepared is consistent with the financial statements;
the Strategic Report and the Directors’ Report have been 
prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

• 

In addition, in light of the knowledge and understanding of the 
Company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we 
are required to report if we have identified any material misstatements 
in the Strategic Report and the Directors’ Report. We have nothing to 
report in this respect.

Other Matters on Which We Are Required To 
Report By Exception
Adequacy of information and explanations received
Under the Companies Act 2006 we are required to report to you if, in 
our opinion, we have not received all the information and explanations 
we require for our audit. We have no exceptions to report arising from 
this responsibility. 

Directors’ Remuneration
Under the Companies Act 2006 we are required to report to you if, in 
our opinion, certain disclosures of Directors’ remuneration specified 
by law are not made. We have no exceptions to report arising from 
this responsibility. 

We test and examine information, using sampling and other auditing 
techniques, to the extent we consider necessary to provide a 
reasonable basis for us to draw conclusions. We obtain audit 
evidence through testing the effectiveness of controls, substantive 
procedures or a combination of both.

In addition, we read all the financial and non-financial information in 
the Annual Report and financial statements to identify material 
inconsistencies with the audited financial statements and to identify 
any information that is apparently materially incorrect based on, or 
materially inconsistent with, the knowledge acquired by us in the 
course of performing the audit. If we become aware of any apparent 
material misstatements or inconsistencies we consider the 
implications for our report. With respect to the Strategic Report and 
Directors’ Report, we consider whether those reports include the 
disclosures required by applicable legal requirements.

Other Matter
We have reported separately on the Parent Company financial 
statements of Trakm8 Holdings PLC for the year ended 
31 March 2016.

Matthew Hall (Senior Statutory Auditor)
for and on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors
Southampton

8 July 2016

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2016

Revenue
Cost of sales

Gross profit
Other income
Administrative expenses excluding exceptional costs
Exceptional administrative costs

Total administrative costs

Operating profit
Finance income
Finance costs

Profit before taxation
Income tax

Profit for the year attributable to the owners of the Parent

Other comprehensive income/(expense)
Items that may be subsequently reclassified to profit or loss:
Currency translation differences

Total other comprehensive income/(expense)

Consolidated statement of 

comprehensive income

Year ended
31 March 2016
£

Year ended
31 March 2015
£

Note

6

7

9

8

10

11

25,649,188
(13,251,581)

17,853,436
(9,791,655)

12,397,607
81,443
(8,756,085)
(612,559)

8,061,781
–
(6,301,424)
–

(9,368,644)

(6,301,424)

3,110,406
874
(108,208)

3,003,072
340,678

1,760,357
388
(58,439)

1,702,306
(13,241)

3,343,750

1,689,065

3,811

3,811

(4,460)

(4,460)

Total comprehensive income for the year attributable to owners of the Parent

3,347,561

1,684,605

 Adjusted Operating profit

8

3,921,044

1,877,289

Earnings per ordinary share (pence) attributable to owners of the Parent
Basic
Diluted

13
13

11.15p
10.27p

5.84p
5.48p

There were no discontinued operations in 2016 or 2015. Accordingly the results relate to continuing operations.

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changes in equity

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2016

Share
capital
£

Share 
premium
£

Merger 
reserve
£ 

Translation 
reserve
£

Treasury 
reserve
£

Retained 
earnings
£ 

Total equity 
attributable
to owners of 
the Parent
£ 

Balance as at 1 April 2014

288,738 3,641,561

509,837

200,063

 – 

491,877

5,132,076

Comprehensive income
Profit for the year
Other comprehensive expense
Exchange differences on translation of 

overseas operations

Total comprehensive (expense)/income

Transactions with owners
Shares issued
Reclassification of previous Treasury share transactions
Sale of own shares
IFRS2 Share-based payments

Transactions with owners

Balance as at 1 April 2015

Comprehensive income
Profit for the year
Other comprehensive income
Exchange differences on translation of 

overseas operations

Total comprehensive income

Transactions with owners
Shares issued
Share placing fees
Sale of own shares
IFRS2 Share-based payments

Transactions with owners

–

–

 – 

–

–

 – 

1,000
–
–
–

11,500
67,076
37,263
–

1,000

115,839

–

–

 – 

–
–
–
–

 – 

–

– 1,689,065

1,689,065

(4,460)

(4,460)

–

–

(4,460)

 –  1,689,065

1,684,605

–
–
–
–

–
(23,250)
11,625
–

–
(43,826)
–
116,932

12,500
–
48,888
116,932

 – 

(11,625)

73,106

178,320

289,738 3,757,400

509,837

195,603

(11,625) 2,254,048

6,995,001

–

–

 – 

–

–

 – 

–

–

 – 

–

– 3,343,750

3,343,750

3,811

3,811

–

–

3,811

 –  3,343,750

3,347,561

30,612 6,110,982
(300,000)
72,680
–

–
–
–

612,344
–
–
–

–
–
–
–

–
–
7,130
–

–
–
–
198,079

6,753,938
(300,000)
79,810
198,079

30,612 5,883,662

 612,344 

 – 

7,130

198,079

6,731,827

Balance as at 31 March 2016

320,350 9,641,062 1,122,181

199,414

(4,495) 5,795,877 17,074,389

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AS AT 31 MARCH 2016

Assets
Non-current assets
Intangible assets
Property, plant and equipment
Deferred income tax asset

Current assets
Inventories
Trade and other receivables
Cash and cash equivalents

Liabilities
Current liabilities
Trade and other payables
Borrowings
Provisions 

Current assets less current liabilities
Total assets less current liabilities
Non-current liabilities
Trade and other payables
Borrowings
Provisions

Net assets

Equity
Share capital 
Share premium
Merger reserve
Translation reserve
Treasury reserve
Retained earnings

Total equity attributable to owners of the Parent

Consolidated statement of 

financial position

As at
31 March 2016
£

As at
31 March 2015
£

Note

14
15
18

16
17

19
20
21

19
20
21

22

13,996,240
1,572,613
801,365

3,652,203
1,246,669
665,688

16,370,218

5,564,560

2,258,882
7,620,001
3,871,110

1,493,417
4,911,525
3,407,959

13,749,993

9,812,901

(7,541,122)
(981,182)
(92,208)

(5,124,668)
(575,644)
(92,193)

(8,614,512)

(5,792,505)

5,135,481
21,505,699

4,020,396
9,584,956

(395,313)
(3,976,336)
(59,661)

(306,034)
(2,236,001)
(47,920)

17,074,389

6,995,001

320,350
9,641,062
1,122,181
199,414
(4,495)
5,795,877

289,738
3,757,400
509,837
195,603
(11,625)
2,254,048

17,074,389

6,995,001

The notes on pages 37 to 54 are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements. These financial statements on pages 33 to 54 were 
approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 8 July 2016 and are signed on their behalf by:

John Watkins 
Director 

James Hedges
Director

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH-FLOWS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2016

Net cash generated from operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities
Interest received
Acquisition of subsidiary undertaking (net of cash acquired)
Purchases of property, plant and equipment
Purchases of software
Proceeds from sale of plant and equipment
Capitalised development costs

Net cash used in investing activities 

Cash flows from financing activities
Issue of new shares
Sale of Treasury shares
New bank loan
New HP agreement
Interest paid
Repayment of loans
Repayment of obligations under hire purchase agreements

Net cash generated from financing activities

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year

Cash and cash equivalents at end of year

Consolidated statement of 

cash-flows

Year ended
31 March 2016
£

Year ended
31 March 2015
£

4,447,310

1,186,080

Notes

24

874
(7,697,531)
(528,597)
(79,134)
 – 
(1,852,639)

388
(5,175)
(355,087)
– 
9,888
(861,849)

(10,157,027)

(1,211,835)

5,839,751
79,810
6,000,000
126,242
(108,208)
(5,751,888)
(12,839)

6,172,868

463,151

12,500
48,888
3,000,000
 – 
(58,439)
(2,480,021)
–

522,928

497,173

3,407,959

2,910,786

3,871,110

3,407,959

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financial statements

NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1  General Information
Trakm8 Holdings PLC (‘Company’) and its subsidiaries (together 
the ‘Group’) manufacture, distribute and sell telematics devices 
and services.

The trading results of subsidiaries acquired or disposed of during the 
year are included in the Consolidated statement of comprehensive 
income from the effective date of acquisition or up to the effective 
date of disposal, as appropriate.

Trakm8 Holdings PLC is a public limited Company incorporated in the 
United Kingdom (registration number 05452547). The Company is 
domiciled in the United Kingdom and its registered office address is 
Lydden House, Wincombe Business Park, Shaftesbury, Dorset, 
SP7 9QJ. The Company’s ordinary shares are traded on the AIM 
market of the London Stock Exchange.

The Group’s principal activity is the manufacture, marketing and 
distribution of vehicle telematics equipment and services. The 
Company’s principal activity is to act as a holding Company for 
its subsidiaries.

2  Authorisation of Financial Statements and 
Statement of Compliance with IFRS
The Group’s financial statements have been prepared in accordance 
with International Financial Reporting Standards (‘IFRS’) and IFRS 
Interpretations Committee (‘IFRS IC’) interpretations as endorsed by 
the European Union, and with those parts of the Companies Act 2006 
applicable to companies reporting under IFRS. 

3  Basis of Preparation
The accounting policies set out in note 4 have been applied 
consistently to all periods presented in these consolidated financial 
statements made up to 31 March 2016.

These financial statements are presented on a going concern basis. 
The Group has cash balances of £3,871,110 at 31 March 2016 and 
the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group will have 
adequate financial resources to continue in operation for the 
foreseeable future. 

All intra-group transactions, balances, income and expenditure are 
eliminated on consolidation.

The purchase method of accounting is used to account for the 
acquisition of subsidiaries by the Group. The cost of an acquisition is 
measured as the fair value of the assets given, equity instruments 
issued and liabilities incurred or assumed at the date of exchange. 
Identifiable assets acquired and liabilities and contingent liabilities 
assumed in a business combination are initially measured at fair value 
at the acquisition date irrespective of the extent of any minority 
interest. The excess of cost of acquisition over the fair values of the 
Group’s share of identifiable net assets acquired is recognised as 
goodwill. Any deficiency of the cost of acquisition below the fair value 
of identifiable net assets acquired (i.e. discount on acquisition) is 
recognised directly in the statement of comprehensive income. All 
acquisition expenses have been reported within the consolidated 
income statement immediately.

Any contingent consideration to be transferred by the Group is 
recognised at fair value at the acquisition date. Subsequent changes 
to the fair value of the contingent consideration that is deemed to be 
an asset or liability is recognised in accordance with IAS 39 either in 
profit or loss or as a change to other comprehensive income.

Where necessary, adjustments are made to the financial statements 
of subsidiaries to bring the accounting policies used in line with those 
used by other members of the Group.

Revenue Recognition
Revenue represents the total of amounts receivable for goods and 
services provided excluding value added tax. 

The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with IFRS 
requires the use of certain critical accounting estimates and 
management to exercise its judgement in the process of applying the 
Group’s accounting policies as disclosed within note 4 and 5.

Revenue on the sale of telematics devices and other hardware is 
recognised on the delivery of the goods to the customer, or where 
bill and hold arrangements exist on acceptance of the goods by 
the customer.

4  Accounting Policies
Basis of Accounting
The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern 
basis under the historical cost convention in accordance with the 
applicable accounting standards.

The preparation of the financial statements requires management to 
make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of 
revenues, expenses, assets and liabilities, and the disclosure of 
contingent liabilities at the date of the financial statements. If in the 
future such estimates and assumptions which are based on 
management’s best judgement at the date of the financial statements, 
deviate from the actual circumstances, the original estimates and 
assumptions will be modified as appropriate in the year in which the 
circumstances change. Where necessary, the comparatives have 
been reclassified or extended from the previously reported results to 
take into account presentational changes.

Basis of Consolidation
The consolidated financial statements incorporate the financial 
statements of the Company and entities controlled by the Company 
(its subsidiaries) made up to 31 March each year. Control is achieved 
where the Company has the power to govern the financial and 
operating policies of an investee entity so as to obtain benefits from 
its activities.

Revenue for telematics services, being the provision of data to 
customers, is recognised with reference to the fair value of contracts 
over the period to which it relates. The appropriate portion of service 
revenues covering a future period is shown as deferred income under 
current liabilities.

Revenue for engineering services and software development and 
integration projects is recognised with reference to the fair value of the 
contracts when the project is substantially complete and the outcome 
is reasonably certain.

Revenue from the sale of software is recognised when the software is 
made available for use by the customers. Revenue from the 
development of software and the integration of software with 
customers’ existing systems is recognised with reference to the fair 
value of the contracts when the project is substantially complete and 
the outcome is reasonably certain.

Grant Income
Government grants for revenue expenditure are recognised in income 
statement on a systematic basis over the periods in which the entity 
recognises expenses for the related costs for which the grants are 
intended to compensate. For grants relating to assets the grant is 
deducted from the carrying amount of the asset.

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4  Accounting Policies continued
Operating Leases
Leases where the lessor retains substantially all the risks and rewards 
of ownership are classified as operating leases. The cost of operating 
leases (net of any incentives received from the lessor) is charged to 
the statement of comprehensive income on a straight-line basis over 
the periods of the leases.

Exceptional Items
Exceptional items are those items that, in the Directors’ view, are 
required to be separately disclosed by virtue of their size or incidence 
to enable a full understanding of the Group’s financial performance.

Taxation
The tax expense represents the sum of the current tax expense and 
deferred tax expense.

Current tax is based on taxable profits for the year. Taxable profit 
differs from net profit as reported in the statement of comprehensive 
income because it excludes items of income or expense that are 
taxable or deductible in other years and it further excludes items that 
are never taxable or deductible. The Group’s liability for current tax is 
calculated by using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively 
enacted by the statement of financial position date.

Deferred tax is the tax expected to be payable or recoverable on 
differences between the carrying amount of assets and liabilities in 
the financial statements and the corresponding tax bases used in the 
computation of taxable profit, and is accounted for using the 
statement of financial position liability method. 

Deferred tax liabilities are recognised for all taxable temporary 
differences and deferred tax assets are recognised to the extent 
that it is probable that taxable profits will be available against  
which deductible temporary differences can be utilised in the 
foreseeable future.

Deferred tax is calculated at the tax rates that are expected to apply 
to the period when the asset is realised or the liability is settled, based 
upon tax rates that have been enacted or substantively enacted. 

Share-based Payments
The Group has applied the requirements of IFRS 2 Share-based 
payment, the corresponding entry to the expense in the statement of 
comprehensive income is recognised in equity within the Statement 
of Changes in Equity.

The Group issues equity-settled share-based payments to certain 
employees. Equity-settled share-based payments are measured at 
fair value at the date of grant. The fair value determined at the grant 
date of equity-settled share-based payments is expensed on a 
straight-line basis over the vesting period, based on the Group’s 
estimate of shares that will eventually vest.

The fair value is measured by use of the Black-Scholes option pricing 
model. The expected life used in the model has been adjusted, based 
on management’s best estimate, for the effect of non-transferability, 
exercise restrictions, and behavioural considerations. No expense is 
recognised for awards that do not ultimately vest.

Goodwill
Goodwill arising on consolidation is recorded as an intangible asset 
and is the surplus of the cost of acquisition over the Group’s interest 
in the fair value of identifiable net assets (including intangible assets) 
acquired. Goodwill is reviewed annually for impairment. Any 
impairment identified as a result of the review is charged in the 
statement of comprehensive income.

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On disposal of a subsidiary, associate or jointly controlled entity, the 
attributable amount of goodwill is included in the determination of the 
profit or loss on disposal.

Intangible Assets Other Than Goodwill
An intangible asset, which is an identifiable non-monetary asset 
without physical substance, is recognised to the extent that it is 
probable that the expected future economic benefits attributable to 
the asset will flow to the Group and that its cost can be measured 
reliably. Such intangible assets are carried at cost less amortisation. 
Amortisation is charged to ‘administrative expenses’ in the statement 
of comprehensive income on a straight-line basis over the ‘intangible 
assets’ useful economic life. The amortisation period is typically 
1–10 years depending on the life of the related asset.

Expenditure on research activities is recognised as an expense in the 
period in which it is incurred. 

Development expenditure is capitalised as an intangible asset only if 
the following conditions are met:
•  an asset is created that can be identified;
• 

it is probable that the asset created will generate future 
economic benefit; 
the development cost of the asset can be measured reliably;
it meets the Group’s criteria for technical and commercial 
feasibility; and

• 
• 

•  sufficient resources are available to meet the development costs 

to either sell or use as an asset.

Intangible Assets Acquired as Part of a Business 
Combination
For acquisitions, the Group recognises intangible assets separately 
from goodwill provided they are separable or arise from contractual or 
other legal rights and their fair value can be measured reliably. 
Intangible assets are initially recognised at fair value, which is 
regarded as their cost. Intangible assets are subsequently held at 
cost less accumulated amortisation and impairment losses. Where 
intangible assets have finite lives, their cost is amortised on a straight 
line basis over those lives. The nature of intangible assets recognised 
and their estimated useful lives are as follows:

Software 
Websites 
Intellectual property 

10 – 20% Straight line
33 – 50% Straight line
20% Straight line

Property, Plant and Equipment
Property, plant and equipment are stated at cost less any subsequent 
accumulated depreciation or impairment losses. With the exception 
of freehold buildings held at 31 March 2006 (the date of transition to 
IFRS), cost represents purchase price together with any incidental 
costs to acquisition. As permitted by IFRS 1, the cost of freehold 
buildings at 31 March 2006 represents deemed cost, being the 
market value of the property for existing use at that date.

Depreciation is provided on all property, plant and equipment, other 
than freehold land, at rates calculated to write each asset down to its 
estimated residual value over its expected useful life, as follows:

Freehold property 
Furniture, fixtures and equipment 
Computer equipment 
Motor vehicles 

 2% Straight line
25% Reducing balance
33% Straight line
25% Straight line 

Property, Plant and Equipment Impairment
The assets’ residual values and useful lives are reviewed at each 
statement of financial position date and adjusted if appropriate. The 
carrying values of property, plant and equipment are reviewed for 
impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that 
the carrying value may not be recoverable.

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Inventories are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value. In 
general, cost is determined on a first in first out basis and includes all 
direct expenditure and production overheads based on a normal level 
of activity. Net realisable value is the price at which the stocks can be 
sold in the normal course of business after allowing for the costs of 
realisation and where appropriate for the costs of conversion from its 
existing state to a finished condition. Provision is made for obsolete, 
slow moving and defective stocks.

Financial Instruments
Financial assets and financial liabilities are recognised in the Group’s 
statement of financial position when the Group becomes a party to 
the contractual provisions of the instrument.

Trade Receivables
Trade receivables are initially recognised at fair value and 
subsequently measured at their amortised cost using the effective 
interest method less any provision for impairment. A provision for 
impairment is made where there is objective evidence, (including 
customers with financial difficulties or in default on payments), that 
amounts will not be recovered in accordance with the original terms 
of the agreement. A provision for impairment is established when the 
carrying value of the receivable exceeds the present value of the 
future cash flow discounted using the original effective interest rate. 
The carrying value of the receivable is reduced through the use of an 
allowance account and any impairment loss is recognised in the 
statement of comprehensive income.

Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and demand 
deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are 
readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an 
insignificant risk of change in value. For the purposes of the statement 
of cash flows, cash and cash equivalents includes bank overdrafts 
where applicable. 

Financial Liabilities and Equity
Financial liabilities and equity instruments are classified according to 
the substance of the contractual arrangements entered into. An 
equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in 
the assets of the Group after deducting all of its liabilities. 
Financial liabilities and equity instruments are initially recognised at 
fair value and subsequently at amortised cost using the effective 
interest method.

Bank Borrowings
Borrowings are initially recognised at fair value, being proceeds 
received less directly attributable transaction costs incurred. 
Borrowings are subsequently measured at amortised cost with any 
transaction costs amortised to the income statement over the period 
of the borrowings using the effective interest method.

Trade Payables
Trade payables are obligations to pay for goods or services that have 
been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. 
Trade payables are initially recognised at fair value and subsequently 
at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Finance Leases
Assets held under finance leases, which are leases where 
substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership of the assets have 
been transferred to the Group, are capitalised in the statement of 
financial position and depreciated over the shorter of the lease term 
or their useful lives. The asset is recorded at the lower of its fair value 
and the present value of the minimum lease payments at the 
inception of the lease. The capital elements of future obligations 
under finance leases are included in liabilities in the statement of 

financial position and analysed between current and non-current 
amounts. The interest elements of future obligations under finance 
leases are charged to the statement of comprehensive Income over 
the periods of the leases and represent a constant proportion of the 
balance of capital repayments outstanding in accordance with the 
effective interest rate method.

Warranty Claims
Provision is made for product warranty claims when the Group has a 
present obligation as a result of past events, it is more likely than not 
that an outflow of economic benefits will be required to settle the 
obligation and the amount can be reliably estimated. No provision is 
made for discounting on the grounds that the impact of discounting is 
deemed insignificant.

Equity 
Equity comprises the following: 

Share capital represents the nominal value of equity shares.

Share premium represents the excess over nominal value of the fair 
value of consideration received for equity shares, net of expenses of 
the share issue. 

Merger reserve represents the excess over nominal value of the fair 
value of consideration received for equity shares issued on reverse 
acquisition of subsidiaries, net of expenses of the share issue prior to 
the date of transition to IFRS.

Translation reserve represents cumulative foreign exchange gains and 
losses on retranslation of overseas operations.

Treasury reserve represents the cost of shares held in Treasury. 

Retained earnings represents retained profits and the share-based 
payment reserve.

Treasury Shares
Where any Group Company purchases the Company’s equity share 
capital (treasury shares), the consideration paid, including any directly 
attributable incremental costs (net of income taxes) is deducted from 
equity attributable to the Company’s equity holders until the shares 
are cancelled or reissued. Where such ordinary shares are 
subsequently reissued, any consideration received, net of any directly 
attributable incremental transaction costs and the related income 
tax effects, is included in equity attributable to the Company’s 
equity holders.

Foreign Currencies
Sterling is considered to be the functional currency of the Group. This 
is based on the Group’s workforce being based in the UK and that 
sterling is the currency in which management reporting and decision-
making is based.

Foreign currency monetary assets and liabilities are converted to 
Sterling at the rates of exchange ruling at the end of the financial year. 
Transactions in foreign currencies are converted to Sterling at the 
rates of exchange ruling at the transaction date. All of the resulting 
exchange differences are recognised in the statement of 
comprehensive income as they arise.

For the purpose of presenting consolidated financial statements, the 
assets and liabilities of the Group’s foreign operations are translated 
at exchange rates prevailing on the statement of financial position 
date. Income and expense items are translated at the average 
exchange rates for the period. Exchange differences arising are 
classified as equity and transferred to the Group’s reserves. Such 
translation differences are recognised as income or expense in the 
period in which the operation is disposed of.

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4  Accounting Policies continued
Segmental Reporting
Operating segments are reported in a manner consistent with the 
internal reporting provided to the chief operating decision maker 
(‘CODM’). The chief operating decision maker, who is responsible for 
allocating resources and assessing performance of the operating 
segments, has been identified as the Board of Directors.

The Board have assessed that there continues to be just one 
segment following the continued integration of the Trakm8, DCS and 
RML businesses. This segment has 2 separate revenue streams 
distinguished by whether the revenues arise from solely hardware 
sales (Products) or hardware with ongoing service fees (Solutions).

Changes in Accounting Standards and Disclosures
During the year no new accounting standards became effective  
which had a significant impact on the Group’s consolidated  
financial statements.

Recent Accounting Developments
A number of new standards and amendments and revisions to 
existing standards have been published and are mandatory for the 
Group’s future accounting periods. They have not been adopted early 
in these consolidated financial statements and other than those listed 
below none are expected to have a material impact on the Group. 

The Impact of the Following Standards are Being 
Assessed by the Group
IFRS 15, ‘Revenue from contracts with customers’. This standard 
establishes principles for reporting the nature, amount and timing of 
revenue arising from an entity’s contracts with customers. The Group 
is continuing to assess the full impact of IFRS 15. The area which is 
currently under review by the Group and where a change to current 
practice may be required, is contract revenue recognition. The 
standard becomes effective for accounting periods beginning on 
or after 1 January 2018 and is subject to endorsement by The 
European Union.

IFRS 16, ‘Leases’. The main change is expected to relate to the 
recognition on the Group’s balance sheet of assets and liabilities 
relating to leases which are currently being accounted for as 
operating leases. The Group is yet to assess the full impact of IFRS 
16 which becomes effective for accounting periods beginning on or 
after 1 January 2019. This standard is subject to endorsement by The 
European Union.

5   Critical Accounting Judgements and Key 

Sources of Estimation Uncertainty 
Critical Judgements in Applying the Group’s 
Accounting Policies
In the process of applying the Group’s accounting policies, which are 
described in note 4, management has made the following judgements 
that have a significant effect on the amounts recognised in the 
financial statements (apart from those involving estimations, which are 
dealt with below).

Revenue Recognition
Revenue is recognised with reference to the fair value of contracts. 

Management recognises revenue with reference to the fair value of 
the elements provided within the contract. On contracts with 
elements of supply, software development and integration, and 
service, management have determined the revenue attributable to 
each element of each project by reference to the contracts and with 
reference to historic trends and industry averages to identify  
fair value.

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The split between initial recognition for products supplied and 
subsequent recognition for service revenue over the contract period 
and allocating the fair value between these elements is the key 
judgement made by management in ensuring appropriate 
revenue recognition.

Management determines the state of completion of engineering 
services, software development and integration projects by reference 
to work done, elements delivered and services provided to 
the customer.

Goodwill Carrying Value
A full impairment review has been performed on a ‘value in use’ basis, 
which requires estimation of future net operating cash flows, the time 
period over which they will occur, an appropriate discount rate and an 
appropriate growth rate. Further details, including a sensitivity 
analysis are given in Note 14 and the accounting policy is set out in 
Note 4.

Valuation of Intellectual Property on Business 
Combinations
On the acquisition of a business, it is necessary to attribute fair values 
to any intangible assets acquired, provided they meet the criteria to 
be recognised. The fair values of these assets are arrived at by 
estimating the cost of acquiring equivalent assets from a 3rd party. 
The Group takes advice from 3rd parties in determining fair values 
and the estimated useful lives of intangible assets arising on 
significant acquisitions. Estimates of remaining useful lives of assets 
are also reviewed at least annually and revised if appropriate.

Capitalised Development Costs
The recoverability of capitalised development costs is dependent on 
assessments of the future commercial viability of the relevant 
products and processes. Management assess this viability based on 
market knowledge and demand from customers for improvements to 
existing products and software capabilities. 

Key Sources of Estimation Uncertainty
The key assumptions concerning the future and other key sources of 
estimation uncertainty at the statement of financial position date, that 
have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying 
amounts of assets and liabilities within the next financial year are 
discussed below.

Recoverability of Internally-generated Intangible Asset
During the year, management reconsidered the recoverability of its 
internally generated intangible asset. The costs relate to the 
development of the Group’s portfolio of hardware and software 
products and management continue to believe that the anticipated 
revenues will enable the carrying amount to be recovered in full. 
Assumptions have been made on the number of years over which the 
costs will be recovered based on management’s best expectations 
and these could turn out to be longer or shorter although any 
subsequent adjustment is not expected to be material.

Recoverability of Trade Receivables
Management are particularly conscious of the financial weakness of 
some companies and closely monitors its outstanding debtor book in 
order to minimise the risk associated with future bad debts. Weekly 
cash receipts are analysed and future supplies are stopped if 
accounts remain overdue. An increasing number of customers taking 
the Group’s services pay by direct debit and this is reducing the 
Group’s exposure to the non-recoverability of trade receivables in 
the future.

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During the year, management have reconsidered the recoverability of the deferred tax asset. The projections demonstrate that the deferred tax 
asset will be utilised in the foreseeable future. Assumptions have been made on the number of years over which the tax losses will be 
recovered based on management’s best expectations and these could turn out to be longer or shorter although any subsequent adjustment is 
not expected to be material.

Fair Value Adjustments
On the date of acquisition, management have fair valued the assets and liabilities of DCS and RML to ensure they are consolidated at the 
correct amount. Management have used judgement in calculating the fair values using their knowledge of the Company and its surroundings. 
The assumptions made are anticipated to give a true and fair view on the date of acquisition.

6  Segmental Analysis
The chief operating decision maker (‘CODM’) is identified as the Board. It continues to define all the Group’s trading under the single Integrated 
Telematics Technology segment and therefore review the results of the Group as a whole. Consequently all of the Group’s revenue, expenses, 
results, assets and liabilities are in respect of one Integrated Telematics Technology segment. 

The Board as the CODM review the revenue streams of Integrated Fleet Management and Insurance Solutions (Solutions) and Hardware as 
Discrete Devices (Products) as part of their internal reporting. Products is the sale of hardware through the Group’s distributors. Solutions 
represents the sale of the Group’s full vehicle telematics service to customers, engineering services, professional services and 
mapping solutions.

A breakdown of revenues within these streams are as follows:

Solutions
Products

A geographical analysis of revenue by destination is as follows:

Year ended 
31 March 2016
£

17,208,779
8,440,409

Year ended 
31 March 2015
£

10,981,695
6,871,741

25,649,188

17,853,436

United Kingdom
USA
Canada
Norway
Rest of Europe
UAE
Rest of World

Year ended 31 March 2016

Year ended 31 March 2015

Solutions
£

16,769,774
–
390
117,527
224,078
–
97,010

Products
£

8,048,848
168,652
46,592
–
7,784
136,819
31,714

Total
£

Solutions
£

24,818,622
168,652
46,982
117,527
231,862
136,819
128,724

10,268,761
98,534
360
377,043
132,040
–
104,957

Products
£

6,174,260
191,744
226,146
–
46,760
175,880
56,951

Total
£

16,443,021
290,278
226,506
377,043
178,800
175,880
161,908

17,208,779

8,440,409

25,649,188

10,981,695

6,871,741

17,853,436

All non-current assets are located in the UK with the exception of £7,004 (2015: £5,023) which are held in Europe. 

7  Other Income

Grant income

Year ended 
31 March 2016
£

Year ended 
31 March 2015
£

81,443

–

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8  Operating Profit
The following items have been included in arriving at operating profit:

Depreciation (see Note 15)
 – owned fixed assets
 – assets on hire purchase
Amortisation of intangible assets (see Note 14)
Operating lease rentals
Land and buildings
Other
Research and development expenditure
Loss on foreign exchange transactions
Staff costs (Note 12)

Auditor’s remuneration
Fees payable to the Company’s auditors for the audit of the Parent
Company and consolidated financial statements
Fees payable to the Company’s auditors for other services:
The audit of the Company’s subsidiaries
Tax compliance services
Tax advisory services

Adjusted Operating Profit is monitored by the Board and measured as follows:

Operating profit
Exceptional administrative costs
Share-based payments

Adjusted Operating Profit 

9  Exceptional Costs

Acquisition costs
Integration costs

Year ended 
31 March 2016
£

Year ended 
31 March 2015
£

227,194
5,075
655,528

92,173
219,625
1,002,096
46,212
6,036,138

176,571
–
542,713

51,862
142,838
350,177
18,227
4,479,252

£

£

57,000

10,000

40,000
12,500
12,450

30,000
–
7,500

Year ended 
31 March 2016
£

Year ended 
31 March 2015
£

3,110,406
612,559
198,079

1,760,357
–
116,932

3,921,044

1,877,289

Year ended 
31 March 2016
£

Year ended 
31 March 2015
£

578,943
33,616

612,559

–
–

–

The acquisition costs related to the purchase of the trade and assets of DCS in June 2015 and 100% of the share capital of RML in  
December 2015. The integration costs related to the reorganisation of management and integration of business systems and processes 
following the acquisitions. These costs have been included as part of Administration costs.

10  Finance Costs

Interest on bank loans

42

Year ended 
31 March 2016
£

Year ended 
31 March 2015
£

108,208

58,439

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Current tax
R&D tax credit
Recognition of deferred tax movement

Income tax (credit)/charge

Year ended 
31 March 2016
£

Year ended 
31 March 2015
£

(24,001)
–
(316,677)

(340,678)

–
(74,205)
87,446

13,241

Factors Affecting the Tax Charge
The tax assessed for the year is lower (2015: lower) than the applicable rate of corporation tax in the UK. The difference is explained below:

Profit before tax

Profit on ordinary activities multiplied by the standard rate of corporation tax 
in the UK of 20% (2015: 20%)

Effects of:
Expenses not deductible/income not taxable
R&D relief enhanced deduction
Deferred tax brought forward adjustment
Utilisation of tax losses not recognised as a deferred tax asset
R&D tax credit

Total tax (credit)/charge 

£

£

3,003,072

1,702,306

600,614

340,461

126,014
(685,681)
17,232
(275,301)
(123,558)

(340,678)

69,460
(213,381)
96,145
(205,239)
(74,205)

13,241

R&D Relief Enhanced Deduction
This is deduction available on research and development work done by the Group to develop and enhance its data analytics functionality and 
telematics hardware.

Utilisation of Tax Losses Not Recognised as a Deferred Tax Asset
This is the utilisation of prior years’ tax losses that were not previously recognised as the realisation of the related tax benefit through future 
taxable profits was not considered probable.

12  Employees
The average monthly number of persons (including Directors) employed by the Group was:

Research and development
Selling and distribution
Production
Administration

Staff costs for the employees and Directors (included under administrative expenses):

Wages and salaries
Social security costs
Share-based payments
Other pension costs

Year ended 
31 March 2016
No.

Year ended 
31 March 2015
No.

59
65
71
29

224

41
40
55
21

157

£

£

5,010,798
730,614
198,079
96,647

3,828,339
496,755
116,932
37,226

6,036,138

4,479,252

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12  Employees continued
The compensation for key management personnel was as follows (included under administrative expenses):

Salaries and other short-term employee benefits
Post-employment benefits
Share-based payments

£

£

1,153,555
13,256
89,352

1,256,163

816,740
5,085
85,063

906,888

The key management personnel are the Directors and in addition the Trakm8 Limited Sales Director.

The Directors made total gains of £1,475,375 on the exercise of share options during the year.

Details of Directors’ fees and salaries, bonuses and pensions (including that of the highest paid Director) have been audited and are given in the 
Directors’ Report on page 30.

13  Earnings Per Ordinary Share
The earnings per ordinary share have been calculated using the profit for the year and the weighted average number of ordinary shares in issue 
during the year as follows:

Profit for the year after taxation
Exceptional administrative costs, net of tax
Share-based payments
Tax effect of adjustments

Adjusted profit for the year after taxation

Number of ordinary shares of 1p each

Basic weighted average number of ordinary shares of 1p each 
Basic weighted average number of ordinary shares of 1p each (diluted)

Earnings per share
Diluted earnings per share

Adjust for effects of:
Exceptional costs
Share-based payments
Adjusted earnings per share
Adjusted diluted earnings per share

Year ended 
31 March 2016
£

Year ended 
31 March 2015
£

3,343,750
612,559
198,079
(122,512)

1,689,065
–
116,932
–

4,031,876

1,805,997

No.

No.

32,035,064

28,973,821

30,000,972
32,571,617

28,944,151
30,823,153

11.15p
10.27p

1.63p
0.66p
13.44p
12.56p

5.84p
5.48p

–
0.40p
6.24p
5.88p

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Cost
As at 1 April 2014
Additions

As at 31 March 2015
Additions
Acquisition of DCS and RML
Disposals

As at 31 March 2016

Amortisation
As at 1 April 2014
Charge for year

As at 31 March 2015
Charge for year
Depreciation on disposals

As at 31 March 2016

Net book value

As at 31 March 2016

As at 31 March 2015

As at 1 April 2014

Goodwill
£

Intellectual 
property
 £

Development 
costs
£

Software
£

Total
£

1,979,114 1,620,184 1,316,677
861,849

5,175

 – 

1,984,289 1,620,184 2,178,526
 –  1,852,639
74,891
(53,701)

 – 
7,767,902
–

 300,000 
 – 

47,567
52,627

4,963,542
919,651

100,194
79,134
925,000
–

5,883,193
1,931,773
9,067,793
(53,701)

9,752,191 1,920,184 4,052,355 1,104,328 16,829,057

 –  1,150,176
153,617
 – 

 –  1,303,793
175,296
 – 
–
 – 

516,391
363,508

879,899
395,195
(53,701)

21,710
25,588

47,298
85,037
–

1,688,277
542,713

2,230,990
655,528
(53,701)

 –  1,479,089 1,221,393

132,335

2,832,817

9,752,191

441,095 2,830,962

971,993 13,996,240

1,984,289

316,391 1,298,627

52,896

3,652,203

1,979,114

470,008

800,286

25,857

3,275,265

Intangible assets recognised on acquisitions

£

 £

£

£

£

DCS
RML

2,176,000
5,591,902

320,000
905,000

 – 
74,891

 –  2,496,000
 –  6,571,793

7,767,902 1,225,000

74,891

 –  9,067,793

Goodwill arose in relation to the Group’s acquisition of the trade and assets of DCS in June 2015: £2,176,000 and acquisition of 100% of the 
share capital of RML in December 2015: £5,591,902.

Since the acquisition DCS has been incorporated into the Trakm8 business. The 2 businesses have therefore been assessed as one  
cash-generating unit for an impairment test on goodwill.

The impairment review has been done using the value in use calculation.

The impairment review has been based on the Group’s budgets for 2016/17 which have been reviewed and approved by the Board. Forecasts 
for the subsequent 3 years have been produced based on 7% growth rates in each year. A net present value has been calculated using a 
pre-tax discount rate of 10% which is deemed to be a prudent rate taking account of the Group’s cost of funds and an extra element for risk. 
No terminal value has been calculated as the discounted cash flow forecasts used within the model fully support the goodwill value.

In addition a sensitivity analysis has been undertaken by making the following changes:
1.  Reduction in annual growth rates to 3% per annum
2.  Increase in the discount rate to 13%

The conclusion of this review is that no reasonable set of assumptions would produce an impairment.

Since the acquisition Trakm8 Holdings PLC has been integrating RML and this process was ongoing at the year end. The business has 
therefore been assessed as a separate cash-generating unit for an impairment test on goodwill.

The impairment review has been based on the Group’s budgets for 2016/17 which have been reviewed and approved by the Board. Forecasts 
for the subsequent 3 years have been produced based on 33% growth rates in each year. A net present value has been calculated using a pre 
tax discount rate of 14% which is deemed to be a prudent rate taking account of the Group’s cost of funds and an extra element for risk. No 
terminal value has been calculated as the discounted cash flow forecasts used within the model fully support the goodwill value.

In addition a sensitivity analysis has been undertaken by making the following changes:
1.  Reduction in annual growth rates to 25% per annum
2.  Increase in the discount rate to 17%

The conclusion of this review is that no reasonable set of assumptions would produce an impairment.

Amortisation expenses of £655,528 (2015: £542,713) have been charged to administrative expenses in the consolidated statement of 
comprehensive income. 

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15  Property, Plant And Equipment

Cost
As at 1 April 2014
Additions
Exchange differences
Disposals

As at 31 March 2015
Additions
Acquisition of DCS and RML
Exchange differences
Disposals

As at 31 March 2016

Depreciation
As at 1 April 2014
Charge for year
Exchange differences
Disposals

As at 31 March 2015
Charge for year
Exchange differences
Disposals

As at 31 March 2016

Net book value

As at 31 March 2016

As at 31 March 2015

As at 1 April 2014

Freehold 
property
£

Furniture, fixtures 
and equipment
£ 

507,684
–
–
–

507,684
–
–
–
–

673,635
147,444
(740)
(21,235)

799,104
452,011
19,817
587
(78,744)

507,684

1,192,775

35,327
4,460
–
–

39,787
4,293
 – 
 – 

44,080

463,604

467,897

472,357

105,301
97,953
(44)
(11,346)

191,864
143,475
48
(30,434)

304,953

887,822

607,240

568,334

Computer 
equipment
£ 

266,714
155,016
(760)
–

420,970
124,898
9,178
387
(5,836)

549,597

184,151
70,296
(760)
–

253,687
80,639
307
(5,836)

328,797

220,800

167,283

82,563

Motor 
vehicles
£

9,793
–
–
–

9,793
–
–
–
–

9,793

1,682
3,862
–
–

5,544
3,862
 – 
 – 

9,406

Total
£ 

1,457,826
302,460
(1,500)
(21,235)

1,737,551
576,909
28,995
974
(84,580)

2,259,849

326,461
176,571
(804)
(11,346)

490,882
232,269
355
(36,270)

687,236

387

1,572,613

4,249

8,111

1,246,669

1,131,365

Included within freehold property is £284,585 (2015: £284,585) relating to land which is not depreciated. The Group’s obligations under finance 
leases (see Note 20) are secured by the lessors’ title to the leased assets, which have a carrying amount of £96,417 (2015: £0) included within 
property, plant and equipment.

Total depreciation expenses of £232,269 (2015: £202,159) have been charged to administrative expenses in the Consolidated statement of 
comprehensive income. 

16   Inventories

Raw materials
Work in progress
Finished goods and goods for resale

As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at  

31 March 2015
£

670,470
185,506
1,402,906

928,859
147,137
417,421

2,258,882

1,493,417

The cost of inventories recognised as an expense and included in cost of sales amounted to £8,737,905, (2015: £6,731,681). During the year old 
inventory lines totalling £71,123, (2015: £11,559) were written down and charged to cost of sales in the Consolidated statement of 
comprehensive income. 

17  Trade and Other Receivables

Trade receivables
Other receivables
Corporation tax receivable
Prepayments and accrued income

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As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at 
31 March 2015
£

5,560,921
985,840
24,001
1,073,240

4,257,337
538,754
–
115,434

7,644,002

4,911,525

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The analysis of trade receivables by currency is as follows:

Pound Sterling
Dollar
Other

As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at 
31 March 2015
£

5,487,170
69,086
4,665

4,061,940
177,467
17,930

5,560,921

4,257,337

An allowance for impairment is made where there is an identified event which based on previous experience, is evidence of a reduction in 
the recoverability of the outstanding amount. The allowance that has been made for estimated irrecoverable trade receivables is £468,782 
(2015: £8,600).

As at 31 March 2016 trade receivables of £1,469,390 (2015: £743,621) were past due but not impaired. The ageing analysis of these trade 
receivables is as follows:

Up to 3 months past due
3 to 6 months past due

As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at 
31 March 2015
£

1,214,308
415,958

1,630,266

679,104
64,517

743,621

The Directors consider that the carrying amount of trade and other receivables approximates to their fair values. The maximum exposure to 
credit risk at the reporting date is the carrying value of each class of receivable mentioned above.

18  Deferred Tax
The analysis of deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities is as follows:

Deferred tax asset
Deferred tax asset to be recovered after more than 12 months
Deferred tax asset to be recovered within 12 months

As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at 
31 March 2015
£

449,491
351,874

801,365

578,242
87,446

665,688

In addition to the deferred tax asset shown above, the Group has trading losses of £612,177 (2015: £2,068,000) not recognised as a deferred 
tax asset because recovery is not expected in the near future. 

The deferred tax asset consists of the following:

Trading losses
Accelerated tax depreciation

As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at 
31 March 2015
£

1,141,503
(340,138)

811,811
(146,123)

801,365

665,688

Deferred income tax assets are recognised for tax loss carry-forwards to the extent that the realisation of the related tax benefit through future 
taxable profits is probable.

The movement in the deferred income tax asset during the year is as follows:

At 31 March 2015
Credited to the statement of comprehensive income
Debited to goodwill arising on acquisition

At 31 March 2016

Trading losses
£

811,811
329,692
 – 

Accelerated tax 
depreciation
£

(146,123)
(13,015)
(181,000)

Total
£

665,688
316,677
(181,000)

1,141,503

(340,138)

801,365

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19  Trade and Other Payables 

Trade payables
Social security and other taxes
Other payables
Accruals and deferred income

Non-current liabilities

Current liabilities

As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at 
31 March 2015
£

As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at 
31 March 2015
£

 – 
 – 
151,223
244,090

395,313

 – 
 – 
 – 
306,034

4,229,411
1,529,573
86,174
1,695,964

3,041,087
716,770
246,001
1,120,810

306,034

7,541,122

5,124,668

The Directors consider that the carrying amount of trade payables approximates to their fair value.

20  Borrowings

Current
Non-Current

As at 31 March 2016

Obligations under 
finance leases
£

Total
£

25,676
87,727

981,182
3,976,336

Bank loan
£

575,644
2,236,001

113,403

4,957,518

2,811,645

Bank loan
£

955,506
3,888,609

4,844,115

As at 31 March 2015

Obligations under 
finance leases
£

 – 
 – 

 – 

Total
£

575,644
2,236,001

2,811,645

All borrowings are held in Sterling and the Directors consider their carrying amount approximates to their fair values. 

During 2015 the loan from Clydesdale to RML was repaid in full. In addition the £3m term loan with HSBC was repaid and replaced with a £5m 
term loan with HSBC. The new loan is secured by a fixed and floating charge on all the assets of the Group. It is repayable by monthly 
instalments until 2021 and bears interest at a floating rate of 1.95% over base rate.

In addition HSBC granted a new £5m revolving credit facility which is repayable in full at the end of the 3-year term. The loan bears an interest 
rate of 1.5% over LIBOR on the drawn amount and a fee of 0.75% on the undrawn facility. As at 31 March 2016 the Group had not drawn down 
any of this credit facility.

21  Provisions

As at 1 April 2014
Arising during the year
Utilised
Reversal of unused amounts

As at 1 April 2015
Arising during the year
Utilised

At 31 March 2016

£

161,186
67,699
(67,699)
(21,073)

140,113
55,097
(43,341)

151,869

The provision related to the potential warranty claims that may come to fruition in the near future. This provision is expected to be utilised 
as follows:

As at 31 March 
2016
£

As at 31 March 
2015
£

92,208
59,661

92,193
47,920

151,869

 140,113

Current
Non-current

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Authorised
Ordinary shares of 1p each
Allotted, issued and fully paid
Ordinary shares of 1p each

Movement in share capital:

As at 1 April
New shares issued 

As at 31 March

As at 31 March 2016

As at 31 March 2015

No’s 
‘000’s

£ 

No’s
 ‘000’s

£

200,000

2,000,000

200,000

2,000,000

32,035

320,350

28,974

289,738

As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at 
31 March 2015
£

289,738
30,612

320,350

288,738
1,000

289,738

The Company currently holds 29,000 ordinary shares in Treasury representing 0.10% of the Company’s issued share capital. The number of  
1p ordinary shares that the Company has in issue less the total number of Treasury shares is 32,006,064.

During the year the following shares were issued:

Date

Description

04/09/15
15/09/15
21/12/15
21/12/15

Exercise of options over ordinary shares by Directors and an employee of the Company
Exercise of options over ordinary shares by an employee of the Company
Share placing to fund acquisition of Route Monkey
Share issue to senior management shareholders of Route Monkey

Shares
number 

Consideration
£

Premium
£

975,000
100,000

126,750
13,000

117,000
12,000
1,801,802 6,000,000 5,981,982
612,344
614,189

184,441

3,061,243 6,753,938 6,723,326

The shares issued to senior management shareholders of RML were issued at a premium which was subject to merger relief and has been 
taken to the merger reserve.

23  Share-based Payments
Trakm8 Holdings PLC has issued options (under the Trakm8 Approved Group Option Scheme) to subscribe for ordinary shares of 1p in the 
Company. The purpose of the Option Scheme is to retain and motivate eligible employees. 

The exercise price of all share options is the closing market price on the day of grant. A vesting period of 3 years is applicable according to the 
terms of each scheme which specify the options will vest providing employees remain in service for 3 years from the date of grant.

The fair value of the equity-settled share options granted is estimated as at the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model 
taking into account the terms and conditions upon which the options were granted. No performance conditions were included in the fair 
value calculations. During the year 3 new sets of options were awarded, tranches S, T and SAYE. The inputs to our Black-Scholes pricing 
model were: 

Grant date
Weighted average FV (pence)
Weighted average exercise price (pence)
Expected volatility (%)
Expected life of option
Dividend yield (%)
Risk free (%)

Option Scheme

S

SAYE

T

22/09/15
 86.53 
 192.50 
51.1%
5 years
0%
1.2%

05/08/15
 65.98 
 183.00 
51.3%
3 years
0%
1.2%

02/01/16
 146.26 
 333.00 
51.0%
5 years
0%
1.2%

The risk free rate of return is the yield on government gilt market price and the volatility has been based on historic share prices.

Options granted during the year were:

Grant date

22/09/15
05/08/15
02/01/16

Option exercise 
price

192.50p
183.00p
333.00p

Date of expiry

9/29/2026
10/1/2026
1/2/2026

No of shares

800,000
91,622
300,000

1,191,622

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23  Share-based Payments continued
A reconciliation of option movements over the year to 31 March 2016 is shown below:

Outstanding at beginning of the year
Granted during the period
Lapsed during the period
Exercised during the period

Outstanding at the end of the year

As at 31 March 2016

As at 31 March 2015

Share options
No.

Weighted average 
exercise price (p)

Share options
No.

Weighted average 
exercise price (p)

3,150,000
1,191,622
(3,600)
(1,075,000)

3,263,022

34.3
226.4
183.0
13.0

111.7

2,625,000
625,000
–
(100,000)

3,150,000

 23.3 
 76.8 
–
 12.5 

 34.3 

The share price at the date of exercise of the above 1,075,000 options was 175 pence (975,000 options) and 203.5 pence (100,000). 

The range of exercise prices of the outstanding options is 13 pence to 333 pence and the weighted average remaining contractual life is 
8.4 years. 

The Group charged £198,079 to the statement of comprehensive income in respect of share-based payments for the financial year ended 
31 March 2016 (2015: £116,932). 

Share options exercisable at the 31 March 2016 were 100,000 (2015: nil).

24  Cash Generated from Operations

Reconciliation of profit before tax to net cash flow from operating activities:
Profit before tax
Depreciation
Bank and other interest
Amortisation of intangible assets
Share-based payments

Operating cash flows before movement in working capital
Movement on retranslation of overseas operations
Movement in inventories
Movement in trade and other receivables
Movement in trade and other payables
Movement in provisions

Cash generated from operations
Income taxes received

Net cash inflow from operating activities

Year ended 
31 March 2016
£

Year ended 
31 March 2015
£

3,003,072
232,269
107,334
655,528
198,079

4,196,282
3,190
(39,011)
(1,211,259)
1,486,354
11,754

4,447,310
–

1,702,306
202,159
58,051
517,125
116,932

2,596,573
(3,764)
(212,808)
(1,641,882)
394,829
(21,073)

1,111,875
74,205

4,447,310

1,186,080

25  Financial Commitments
At the statement of financial position date, the Group had outstanding commitments for future minimum operating lease payments under 
non-cancellable operating leases, which fall due as follows:

Operating leases
Land and buildings
Within 1 year
In the 2nd to 5th years inclusive
Over 5 years

Other
Within 1 year
In the 2nd to 5th years inclusive
Over 5 years

As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at 
31 March 2015
£ 

140,389
481,727
451,212

1,073,328

203,309
213,691
108

417,108

86,362
356,087
456,000

898,449

122,594
111,379
–

233,973

Land and buildings under operating leases represents 4 leases payable by the Group which have expiry dates from 2018 to 2026.

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A total of 575,000 (2015: 500,000) share options were granted during the year to 8 (2015 3) key management employees.

The Non-Executive Director Bill Duffy is a Director of eConnect Cars Limited (‘eConnect’), a customer of the Group; sales to eConnect in the 
year totalled £7,140, all sales were based on prices and terms that would be available to 3rd parties.

27  Financial Instruments
Financial Risk Factors
The Group’s activities expose it to a variety of financial risks: market risk (including currency risk and interest rate risk), credit risk and liquidity 
risk. Where appropriate, the Group seeks to mitigate potential adverse effects on its financial performance.

Liquidity Risk
The Group’s objective is to maintain a balance between continuity and flexibility of funding through the use of borrowings and financial assets 
with a range of maturities. Borrowing facilities are monitored against the Group’s forecast requirements and it is the Group’s policy to mitigate 
the risk by maintaining cash reserves. 

Currency Risk
The Group operates internationally although the majority of its sales are in Sterling. Purchases of components are also made in US Dollars and 
Euros. The Group endeavours to minimise its foreign currency exposure by trading in Sterling wherever possible.

The following table details the Group’s sensitivity to a 10% and a 20% decrease in the value of Sterling against the US Dollar and the Euro and 
the resulting effect on profit. The sensitivity analysis of the Group’s exposure to foreign currency risk at the year end has been determined 
based upon the assumption that the increase in US Dollar and Euro exchange rates is effective throughout the financial year and all other 
variables remain constant.

US Dollar 
Euro

US Dollar 
Euro

10%

Year ended 
31 March 2016
Profit
£

(206,826)
(160,324)

Year ended 
31 March 2015
Profit
£

(43,694)
(72,500)

20%

Profit
£

(465,359)
(360,729)

Profit
£

(43,694)
(72,500)

Credit Risk
The Group’s principal financial assets are bank balances, cash and trade and other receivables. The Group’s credit risk is primarily attributable 
to its trade receivables and the Group attaches considerable importance to the collection and management of trade receivables. The Group 
minimises its credit risk through the application of appropriate credit limits to customers based on an assessment of net worth and trading 
history with the Group. Standard credit terms are net 30 days from the date of invoice. Overdue trade receivables are managed through a 
phased escalation culminating in legal action.

The credit quality of financial assets that are neither past due nor impaired can be ascertained with reference to the banks’ external credit ratings.

Credit rating (S&P)

AA-
BBB+

Total

As at 
31 March 2016
£

2,520,073
1,351,037

As at 
31 March 2015
£

3,045,749
362,210

3,871,110

3,407,959

Financial Instruments by Category
Significant Accounting Policies
Details of the significant accounting policies and methods adopted, including the criteria for recognition, the basis of measurement and the 
basis on which income and expense are recognised, in respect of each class of financial asset, liability and equity instrument are disclosed in 
Note 4 to the financial statements.

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27  Financial Instruments continued
Capital Risk Management
The Group’s objectives when managing capital are to safeguard the Group’s ability to continue as a going concern in order to provide returns 
for shareholders and benefits for other stakeholders and to maintain an optimal capital structure to reduce the cost of capital.

In order to maintain or adjust the capital structure, the Group may adjust the amount of dividends paid to shareholders, return capital to 
shareholders, issue new shares or sell assets to reduce debt.

Consistent with others in the industry, the Group monitors capital on the basis of the gearing ratio. This ratio is calculated as total borrowings 
divided by total capital. Total borrowings include ‘current and non-current borrowings’ as shown in the Consolidated statement of financial 
position. Total capital is calculated as ‘equity’ as shown in the Consolidated statement of financial position plus total borrowings.

The Group’s strategy has been to reduce gearing. This has been successfully achieved through the profits generated during the year.

Total borrowings (Note 20)
Total equity

Total capital
Gearing ratio

At the year end the Group had total net borrowings of £1,086,408, (2015: net cash £596,314).

Assets as per statement of financial position 

Trade and other receivables excluding prepayments
Cash and cash equivalents

Liabilities as per statement of financial position

Borrowings
Trade and other payables excluding statutory liabilities and deferred revenue

Payable as follows

On demand or within 1 year 
After 1 and within 2 years
After 2 and within 5 years
After 5 years

Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents comprise solely of cash in hand held by the Group.

As at 
31 March 2016
£

4,957,518
17,074,389

As at 
31 March 2015
£

2,811,645
6,995,001

22,031,907
23%

9,806,646
29%

Loans and receivables

As at 
31 March 2016
£

6,546,761
3,871,110

As at 
31 March 2015
£

4,796,091
3,407,959

10,417,871

8,204,050

Financial liabilities at  
amortised cost

As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at
 31 March 2015
£

4,957,518
4,823,106

2,811,645
3,126,638

9,780,624

5,938,283

£

£

5,804,288
1,004,857
2,935,104
36,375

3,702,282
590,005
1,645,996
–

9,780,624

5,938,283

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Route Monkey Holdings Limited
On 30 December 2015 the Company acquired the entire share capital of Route Monkey Holdings Ltd and its wholly-owned subsidiary, RML for 
a total consideration of £5,036,584.

RML provides technology solutions that optimise fleet routing. The Company was acquired to bring new and complementary route planning 
and optimisation technology capability to the Group. The assets and liabilities as at 30 December 2015 arising from the acquisition were  
as follows:

Intangible assets
Property and equipment
Trade receivables
Trade and other payables
Deferred tax
Borrowings

Net liabilities acquired
Goodwill

Total consideration

Satisfied by:
Cash
Fair value of shares in the Company

Fair value
£

979,891
24,995
1,380,632
(975,479)
(181,000)
(1,784,357)

(555,318)
5,591,902

5,036,584

4,422,395
614,189

5,036,584

The acquisition was settled in cash of £4,422,395 and by issuing 184,441 shares in Trakm8 Holdings PLC. The fair value of the equity shares 
issued was based on the market value of Trakm8 Holdings PLC’s traded shares with a fair value of £614,189 on the acquisition date. Merger 
relief has been applied, leading to the addition of £612,344 to the merger reserve rather than share premium.

The revenue included in the consolidated statement of comprehensive income since 30 December 2015 contributed by RML was £855,823. 
RML also contributed operating profit of £585,404 over the same period. The Directors have concluded that it is impractical to provide 
disclosure of the revenues and profit that RML would have contributed to the Group had it been consolidated from 1 April 2015. This is due to a 
combination of the fact that RML previously had a different year end and audited accounts are not available for the period 1 April 2015 to 
31 December 2015, and significant adjustments have been required to RML’s accounting policies in respect of revenue recognition to align with 
the requirements of IFRS and Trakm8 Holdings PLC’s accounting policies and it is impractical to recalculate revenues for the period  
1 April 2015 to 31 December 2015. 

Acquisition related costs amounting to £404,743 have been recognised as an exceptional administrative expense in the consolidated statement 
of comprehensive income. 

Under the purchase agreement to acquire RML, contingent consideration of up to £2,000,000 is payable subject to the business achieving 
certain performance targets during the year to 31 December 2016. No provision in relation to this consideration has been recognised in these 
consolidated financial statements as the Directors consider the likelihood of any contingent amounts being payable under the agreement to be 
highly unlikely. 

The goodwill arising on the acquisition represents the value of the software analytics acquired which Trakm8 Holdings PLC plans to integrate 
into their existing telematics offering.

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28  Business Combinations continued
DCS Systems Limited
On 16 June 2015 Trakm8 Limited acquired the business and assets of DCS Systems Limited ‘DCS’ for a consideration of £3,275,136. DCS 
specialises in the design and distribution of camera systems for the motor vehicle, bicycle and security markets.

The fair values of the identifiable assets of the business as at the date of acquisition were:

Intangible assets
Property and equipment
Inventories
Trade receivables
Trade and other payables

Net assets acquired
Goodwill

Total consideration

Satisfied by:

Cash

Fair value
£

320,000
4,000
726,454
92,583
(43,901)

1,099,136
2,176,000

3,275,136

3,275,136

The revenue included in the consolidated statement of comprehensive income since 15 June 2015 contributed by DCS was £1,851,789. DCS 
also contributed operating profit of £312,015 over the same period.

Had DCS been consolidated from 1 April 2015, the consolidated statement of comprehensive income would show revenue of £2,330,700 and 
operating profit of £392,709 in relation to this entity.

Acquisition related costs amounting to £174,200 have been recognised as an exceptional administrative expense in the consolidated statement 
of comprehensive income. 

The goodwill arising on the acquisition represents the value of the camera technology acquired. The value of which is considerably enhanced 
when combined with Trakm8’s existing product range and further synergies.

29  Contingencies
Under the purchase agreement to acquire RML, contingent consideration of up to £2,000,000 is payable subject to the business achieving 
certain performance targets during the year to 31 December 2016. No provision in relation to this consideration has been recognised in these 
consolidated financial statements, as the Directors consider the likelihood of any contingent amounts being payable under the agreement to be 
highly unlikely. 

30  Dividends
We are proposing a final dividend of 2.0p per ordinary share (2015: nil) which subject to shareholder approval at the Annual General Meeting 
which is to be held on 7 September 2016, will be paid on 13 September 2016 to shareholders on the Register at the close of business on 
26 August 2016.

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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT 
TO THE MEMBERS OF TRAKM8 HOLDINGS PLC

Report on the Parent Company 
Financial Statements
Our Opinion
In our opinion, Trakm8 Holdings PLC’s Parent Company Financial 
Statements (the ‘financial statements’):
•  give a true and fair view of the state of the Parent Company’s 

affairs as at 31 March 2016;

•  have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom 

Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and

•  have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the 

Companies Act 2006.

What We Have Audited
The financial statements, included within the Annual Report and 
Financial Statements (the ‘Annual Report’), comprise:
• 
• 

the Company statement of financial position as at 31 March 2016
the Company statement of changes in equity for the period then 
ended; and
the notes to the financial statements, which include a summary of 
significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.

• 

Certain required disclosures have been presented elsewhere in the 
Annual Report, rather than in the notes to the financial statements. 
These are cross-referenced from the financial statements and are 
identified as audited.

The financial reporting framework that has been applied in the 
preparation of the financial statements is United Kingdom Accounting 
Standards, comprising FRS 101 ‘Reduced Disclosure Framework’, 
and applicable law (United Kingdom Generally Accepted 
Accounting Practice).

In applying the financial reporting framework, the Directors have 
made a number of subjective judgements, for example in respect of 
significant accounting estimates. In making such estimates, they have 
made assumptions and considered future events.

Opinions on Other Matters Prescribed by the 
Companies Act 2006
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:
the information given in the Strategic Report and the Directors’ 
• 
Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are 
prepared is consistent with the financial statements;
the Strategic Report and the Directors’ Report have been 
prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

• 

In addition, in light of the knowledge and understanding of the 
Company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we 
are required to report if we have identified any material misstatements 
in the Strategic Report and the Directors’ Report. We have nothing to 
report in this respect.

Other Matters on Which We are Required to 
Report by Exception
Adequacy of Accounting Records and Information and 
Explanations Received
Under the Companies Act 2006 we are required to report to you if, in 
our opinion:
•  we have not received all the information and explanations we 

require for our audit; or

•  adequate accounting records have not been kept by the Parent 
Company, or returns adequate for our audit have not been 
received from branches not visited by us; or
the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting 
records and returns.

• 

Independent auditor’s report

Directors’ Remuneration
Under the Companies Act 2006 we are required to report to you if, in 
our opinion, certain disclosures of Directors’ remuneration specified 
by law are not made. We have no exceptions to report arising from 
this responsibility.

Responsibilities For The Financial Statements and the 
Audit our Responsibilities and Those of the Directors
As explained more fully in the statement of Directors’ responsibilities 
set out on page 31, the Directors are responsible for the preparation 
of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true 
and fair view.

Our responsibility is to audit and express an opinion on the financial 
statements in accordance with applicable law and International 
Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland) (‘ISAs (UK & Ireland)’). Those 
standards require us to comply with the Auditing Practices Board’s 
Ethical Standards for Auditors.

This report, including the opinions, has been prepared for and only for 
the Parent Company’s members as a body in accordance with 
Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006 and for no other 
purpose. We do not, in giving these opinions, accept or assume 
responsibility for any other purpose or to any other person to whom 
this report is shown or into whose hands it may come save where 
expressly agreed by our prior consent in writing.

What an Audit of Financial Statements Involves
We conducted our audit in accordance with ISAs (UK & Ireland). An 
audit involves obtaining evidence about the amounts and disclosures 
in the financial statements sufficient to give reasonable assurance that 
the financial statements are free from material misstatement, whether 
caused by fraud or error. This includes an assessment of: 
•  whether the accounting policies are appropriate to the Parent 

Company’s circumstances and have been consistently applied 
and adequately disclosed; 
the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by 
the Directors; and 
the overall presentation of the financial statements. 

• 

• 

We primarily focus our work in these areas by assessing the 
Directors’ judgements against available evidence, forming our own 
judgements, and evaluating the disclosures in the financial 
statements.

We test and examine information, using sampling and other auditing 
techniques, to the extent we consider necessary to provide a 
reasonable basis for us to draw conclusions. We obtain audit 
evidence through testing the effectiveness of controls, substantive 
procedures or a combination of both. 

In addition, we read all the financial and non-financial information in 
the Annual Report and financial statements to identify material 
inconsistencies with the audited financial statements and to identify 
any information that is apparently materially incorrect based on, or 
materially inconsistent with, the knowledge acquired by us in the 
course of performing the audit. If we become aware of any apparent 
material misstatements or inconsistencies we consider the 
implications for our report. With respect to the Strategic Report and 
Directors’ Report, we consider whether those reports include the 
disclosures required by applicable legal requirements.

Matthew Hall (Senior Statutory Auditor)
for and on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors
Southampton

We have no exceptions to report arising from this responsibility.

8 July 2016

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AS AT 31 MARCH 2016

Assets
Non current assets
Investments

Current assets
Trade and other receivables
Cash and cash equivalents

Liabilities
Current liabilities
Trade and other payables
Borrowings

Current assets less current liabilities

Total assets less current liabilities
Non current liabilities
Borrowings

Net assets

Equity
Share capital 
Share premium account
Merger reserve
Treasury reserve
Retained earnings

Total shareholders’ funds 

Parent company statement 

of financial position

As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at 
31 March 2015
£

Note

3

4

5
5

10,935,554

5,296,148

3,574,016
1,264,409

1,539,043
103,068

4,838,425

1,642,111

(246,827)
(955,506)

(56,434)
(575,644)

(1,202,333)

(632,078)

3,636,092

1,010,033

14,571,646

6,306,181

6

(3,888,609)

(2,236,001)

10,683,037

4,070,180

7

320,350
9,641,062
612,344 
(4,495)
113,776

289,738
3,757,400
– 
(11,625)
34,667

10,683,037

4,070,180

The result for the year was a loss of £118,970, (2015: profit £12,851).

These financial statements on pages 56 to 72 were approved by the Directors and authorised for issue on 8 July 2016 and are signed on their 
behalf by:

John Watkins 
Director 

James Hedges
Director

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Parent company statement 

of changes in equity

PARENT COMPANY STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2016

Balance as at 1 April 2014
Shares issued
Share-based payments reallocation
IFRS2 charge for the year
Reclassification of previous Treasury share transactions
Sale of own shares
Profit for the year

Balance as at 1 April 2015

Shares issued
Share placing fees
IFRS2 charge for the year
Sale of own shares
Loss for the year

Share 
capital
£

288,738
1,000
– 
– 
– 
– 
– 

Share 
premium
£

3,641,561
11,500
– 
– 
67,076
37,263
–

289,738

3,757,400

30,612
– 
– 
– 
– 

6,110,982
(300,000)
– 
72,680
– 

Merger 
reserve
£

– 
– 
– 
– 
– 
– 
– 

– 

612,344
– 
– 
– 
– 

Treasury 
reserve
£

– 
– 
– 
– 
(23,250)
11,625
–

(11,625)

– 
– 
– 
7,130
– 

Retained 
earnings
£ 

(203,548)
– 
152,258
116,932
(43,826)
– 
12,851

Total 
shareholders 
funds
£ 

3,726,751
12,500
152,258
116,932
– 
48,888
12,851

34,667

4,070,180

– 
– 
198,079
– 
(118,970)

6,753,938
(300,000)
198,079
79,810
(118,970)

Balance as at 31 March 2016

320,350

9,641,062

612,344

(4,495)

113,776

10,683,037

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financial statements

NOTES TO THE PARENT COMPANY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1  Accounting Policies
Basis of Preparation 
The financial statements of the Parent Company have been prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Accounting Standards - Financial 
Reporting Standard 101 ‘Reduced Disclosure Framework’ (‘FRS 101’). The financial statements have been prepared on the going concern 
basis, under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 as applicable to companies using FRS 101. 

The Parent Company has transitioned to FRS 101 from previously extant UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice for all periods presented. 
There are no adjustments to the comparative figures for the year ended 31 March 2015 or as at 1 April 2014 arising from the change in financial 
reporting framework.

The Company has taken advantage of the legal dispensation contained in Section 408 of the Companies Act 2006 allowing it not to publish a 
separate income statement and related notes. The Company has also taken advantage of the legal dispensation contained in Section 408 of 
the Companies Act 2006 allowing it not to publish a separate statement of other comprehensive income. 

The following exemptions from the requirements of IFRS have been applied in the preparation of these financial statements, in accordance with 
FRS 101:

•  Paragraphs 45(b) and 46 to 52 of IFRS 2, ‘Share-based payment’ (details of the number and weighted-average exercise prices of share 

options, and how the fair value of goods or services received was determined) 
IFRS 7, ‘Financial Instruments: Disclosures’ 

• 
•  Paragraphs 91 to 99 of IFRS 13, ‘Fair value measurement’ (disclosure of valuation techniques and inputs used for fair value measurement of 

assets and liabilities) 

•  Paragraph 38 of ‘International Accounting Standard 1, Presentation of financial statements’ (IAS1) comparative information requirements in 

respect of paragraph 79(a)(iv) of IAS1 

•  The following paragraphs of IAS1, ‘Presentation of financial statements’: 

 – 10(d) (statement of cash flows) 
 – 16 (statement of compliance with all IFRS) 
 – 38A (requirement for minimum of 2 primary statements, including cash flow statements) 
 – 38B-D (additional comparative information) 
 – 40A-D (requirements for a third statement of financial position) 
 – 111 (cash flow statement information) 
 – 134-136 (capital management disclosures) 
IAS 7, ‘Statement of cash flows’ 

• 
•  Paragraphs 30 and 31 of IAS 8, ‘Accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates and errors’ (requirement for the disclosure of 

information when an entity has not applied a new IFRS that has been issued but is not yet effective) 

•  Paragraph 17 of IAS 24, ‘Related-party disclosures (key management compensation) 
•  The requirements of IAS 24, ‘Related-party disclosures’ to disclose related-party transactions entered into between 2 or more members  

of a Group 

Investments
Fixed asset investments are stated at cost less impairment against the cost of investments. The carrying values of investments in subsidiaries 
are reviewed for impairment if events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying value may not be recoverable. Cost includes directly 
attributable acquisition expenses.

Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and demand deposits and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily 
convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value. For the purposes of the Statement of Cash 
Flows, cash and cash equivalents includes bank overdrafts.

Trade Payables
Trade payables are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Trade 
payables are initially recognised at fair value and subsequently at amortised cost using the effective interest method. 

Bank Borrowings 
Borrowings are initially recognised at fair value, being proceeds received less directly attributable transaction costs incurred. Borrowings are 
subsequently measured at amortised cost with any transaction costs amortised to the income statement over the period of the borrowings 
using the effective interest method. 

Deferred Taxation
Provision is made for deferred taxation in respect of all material timing differences that have originated but not reversed by the balance sheet 
date. Timing differences represent differences between gains and losses recognised for tax purposes in periods different from those in which 
they are recognised in the financial statements. No deferred tax is recognised on permanent differences between the Company’s taxable gains 
and losses and its results as stated in the financial statements. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are included without discounting. 

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Equity comprises the following:

Share capital represents the nominal value of equity shares.

Share premium represents the excess over nominal value of the fair value of consideration received for equity shares, net of expenses of the 
share issue.

Treasury reserve represents the cost of shares held in Treasury.

Retained earnings represents retained profits and the share-based payment reserve. 

Treasury Shares
Where any Group Company purchases the company’s equity share capital (Treasury shares), the consideration paid, including any directly 
attributable incremental costs (net of income taxes) is deducted from equity attributable to the Company’s equity holders until the shares are 
cancelled or reissued. Where such ordinary shares are subsequently reissued, any consideration received, net of any directly attributable 
incremental transaction costs and the related income tax effects, is included in equity attributable to the Company’s equity holders.

Share-based Payments
The Company has applied the requirements of IFRS 2 Share-based payment.

The grant by the Company of options over its equity instruments to the employees of a subsidiary undertaking in the Group is treated as a 
capital contribution. The fair value of employee services received, measured by reference to the grant date fair value of the equity instrument, is 
recognised over the vesting period as an increase to investment in subsidiary undertakings, with a corresponding credit to equity. At each 
balance sheet date, the Company revises its estimates of the number of options or shares that are expected to vest. The impact of any revision, 
if any, is recognised as a capital contribution with a corresponding adjustment to reserves.

The fair value is measured by use of the Black-Scholes option pricing model. The expected life used in the model has been adjusted, based on 
management’s best estimate, for the effect of non-transferability, exercise restrictions, and behavioural considerations. No expense is 
recognised for awards that do not ultimately vest.

2  Profit and Loss Account
As permitted by Section 408 of the Companies Act 2006, the income statement of the Company is not presented as part of these financial 
statements.

The loss after tax for the year in the Company is £118,970, (2015: profit £12,851). Audit fees for the Company for the year were £3,000 
(2015: £3,000). 

3  Investments

Cost 

As at 1 April 2015
Acquisition of Route Monkey Holdings Limited
Capital contribution in respect of share-based payments

At 31 March 2016

Subsidiaries
£

5,296,148
5,441,327
198,079

10,935,554

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3  Investments continued
The Directors believe that the carrying value of the investments is supported by their underlying net assets.

Name of subsidiary

Country of incorporation Nature of business

Trakm8 Limited

England and 
Wales

Marketing and 
distribution of 
vehicle telematics

Lydden House, Wincombe Business Park, 
Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 9QJ 

Class of holding

Proportion held 
and voting rights

Ordinary

100%

Trakm8 s.r.o. 

Czech Republic

Mapping services A7 Office Centre Praha 7 U Pruhonu 1588/11a  

Ordinary

BOX Telematics 
Limited

England and 
Wales

Route Monkey 
Holdings Limited

Route Monkey 
Limited*

Scotland

Scotland

Interactive Projects 
Limited

England and 
Wales

Data Driven 
Telematics 

DCS Systems 
Limited

England and 
Wales

England and 
Wales

*  Owned directly by Route Monkey Holdings Ltd

Manufacture and 
distribution of 
telematics

Route 
optimisation

Route 
optimisation

Dormant

Dormant

Dormant

170 00 Czech Republic

Lydden House, Wincombe Business Park, 
Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 9QJ 

2a Houstoun Interchange Business Park, 
Houstoun, Livingston, West Lothian, EH54 5DW

2a Houstoun Interchange Business Park, 
Houstoun, Livingston, West Lothian, EH54 5DW

Lydden House, Wincombe Business Centre, 
Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 9QJ

Lydden House, Wincombe Business Centre, 
Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 9QJ

Lydden House, Wincombe Business Centre, 
Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 9QJ

Ordinary

Ordinary

Ordinary

Ordinary

Ordinary

Ordinary

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

100%

DCS1 Systems Limited was incorporated on 16 June 2015. Trakm8 Holdings PLC subscribed to the entire share capital of DCS1 Systems 
Limited on 16 June 2015. DCS1 Systems Limited changed its name to DCS Systems Limited on 18 June 2015.

4  Trade and Other Receivables

Amounts due from subsidiary undertakings
Prepayments and other receivables

Amounts due from subsidiary undertakings is unsecured, interest free and repayable on demand.

5  Trade and Other Payables

Bank loan

Trade creditors
Amounts due to subsidiary undertakings
Accruals and other creditors

Amounts due to subsidiary undertakings is unsecured, interest free and repayable on demand.

As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at 
31 March 2015
£

3,434,904
139,112

1,523,892
15,151

3,574,016

1,539,043

As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at 
31 March 2015
£

955,506

183,172
24,058
39,597

246,827

575,644

24,358
–
32,076

56,434

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Bank loan

The Bank loan is repayable as follows:

Within 1 year
After 1 and within 2 years
After 2 and within 5 years

As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at 
31 March 2015
£

3,888,609

2,236,001

£ 

£

955,506
979,181
2,909,428

575,644
590,005
1,645,996

4,844,115

2,811,645

During 2015 the loan from Clydesdale to Route Monkey Holdings Limited was repaid in full. In addition the £3m term loan with HSBC was 
repaid and replaced with a £5m term loan with HSBC. The new loan is secured by a fixed and floating charge on all the assets of the Group. It 
is repayable by monthly instalments until 2021 and bears interest at a floating rate of 1.95% over base rate.

In addition HSBC granted a new £5m revolving credit facility which is repayable in full at the end of the 3-year term. The loan bears an interest 
rate of 1.5% over LIBOR on the drawn amount and a fee of 0.75% on the undrawn facility. As at 31 March 2016 the Group had not drawn down 
any of this credit facility.

7  Called up Share Capital
Details of share capital and share options are shown in Notes 22 and 23 to the consolidated financial statements above.

8  Capital and Other Commitments
At 31 March, the Company had the following future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases for each of the 
following periods:

Motor vehicles: 
Not later than 1 year

As at 
31 March 2016
£

As at 
31 March 2015
£ 

–

–

1,512

1,512

The Company had no capital expenditure contracted for but not provided for in the financial statements.

9  Guarantee
The borrowings of the Company are guaranteed by the assets of the subsidiary companies: Trakm8 Ltd, BOX Telematics Ltd, Route Monkey 
Holdings Ltd and Route Monkey Ltd.

10  Related Parties
The Company has taken advantage of the exemptions conferred by IAS 24 from the requirement to disclose transactions between  
wholly-owned subsidiary undertakings.

A total of 575,000, (2015: 500,000) share options were granted during the year to 8 (2015: 3) key management employees.

The Non-Executive Director Bill Duffy is a Director of eConnect Cars Limited (‘eConnect’), a customer of the Group; sales to eConnect in the 
year totalled £7,140, all sales were based on prices and terms that would be available to 3rd parties.

11  Employees and Directors
The Directors of the Company were paid by Trakm8 Ltd or BOX Telematics Ltd for their services to the Group. It is not practical to perform any 
reallocation of these emoluments between individual Group companies and therefore no charge has been made to the Company. The 
Company had no employees (2015: nil) during the year (other than the Directors).

Details of Directors’ fees and salaries, bonuses and pensions (including that of the highest paid Director) have been audited and are given in the 
Directors’ Report on page 30.

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12  Transition to FRS 101
For all periods up to and including the year ended 31 March 2015, the Parent Company prepared its financial statements in accordance with 
previously extant United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (‘UK GAAP’). These financial statements for the year ended 
31 March 2016 are the first the Parent Company has prepared in accordance with FRS 101, with a transition date of 2008. The shareholders 
were informed on the transition to FRS 101, along with the exemptions being taken, in writing, with no objections made by the shareholders.

On transition to FRS 101 the Parent Company has applied the requirements of paragraphs 6 to 33 of IFRS 1 ‘First time adoption of International 
Financial Reporting Standards’ with the exception, allowed by FRS 101, of the requirement of paragraphs 6 and 21 to present an opening 
statement of financial position at the date of transition.

At the date of transition, the Parent Company has measured the value of its assets and liabilities at the carrying amounts included in the 
consolidated financial statements of Trakm8 Holdings PLC, based on Trakm8 Holdings PLC’s date of transition to IFRS. No adjustments were 
required on the transition to FRS 101.

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Officers and advisers

Directors 
Matt Cowley 
Tim Cowley 
Bill Duffy 
Keith Evans 
James Hedges
Sean Morris 
John Watkins 
Mark Watkins 

Secretary
James Hedges 

Registered Office 
Lydden House
Wincombe Business Park
Shaftesbury
Dorset
SP7 9QJ 

Company Number 
0545 2547

Principal Bankers 
HSBC Bank plc
6 Broad Street
Worcester
WR1 2EJ 

Independent Auditors
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Oceana House
39-49 Commercial Road
Southampton
SO15 1GA

Nominated Adviser and Broker 
finnCap Ltd
60 New Broad Street
London
EC2M 1JJ 

Financial Adviser
J P Morgan Cazenove
25 Bank Street
London
E14 5JP

Financial Public Relations 
MHP Communications
6 Agar Street
London
WC2N 4HN 

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Registered Office
Lydden House
Wincombe Business Park
Shaftesbury
Dorset
SP7 9QJ

+44 (0) 1747 858444
www.trakm8holdings.co.uk

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