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2019 

Annual report and accounts 2019 

Trakm8 Holdings PLC

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 

Through innovative products, Trakm8 collects billions of miles worth of data annually. 

Trakm8 analyses data and provides actionable insights to customers so that they improve efficiency and 
reduce risk. 

STRATEGIC REPORT 

Highlights   
At a Glance 
Executive Chairman’s Statement 
Our Strategy  
Finance Director’s Report 
Key Performance Indicators 
Corporate Social Responsibility 
Risk Management Framework 
Principle Risks and Uncertainties  

GOVERNANCE REPORT 
Board of Directors 

DIRECTORS’ REPORT 
Directors’ Report 
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 
Independent Auditors’ Report to the members of Trakm8 Holdings Plc      
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 
Parent Company Statement of Financial Position 
Parent Company Statement of Changes in Equity 
Notes to the Parent Company Financial Statements 
Officers and Advisors   

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Strategic Report 

OVERVIEW 
Financial 

Revenue  
£19.1m   
FY-2018: £29.4m   

(Loss)/ Profit before tax 
(£3.6m)   
FY-2018: £0.5m 

Adjusted (loss)/profit before tax 
(£1.5m) 
FY-2018: £2.1m 

Net cash generated from operations 
(£1.8m) 
FY-2018: £4.7m 

Adjusted basic (loss)/earnings per share 
(1.89p) 
FY-2018: 6.51p 

Basic (loss)/earnings per share 
(6.20p) 
FY-2018: 2.72p 

Operational 

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 

Sales related challenges and contract delays significantly impacted revenue in the year 
Implemented further reduction of annualised operating costs by £2.0m, including the final 
consolidation of Roadsense and Routemonkey, with savings reinvested into sales and marketing. 
  Re-structured Fleet Management sales team including recruiting new management with dedicated 

Direct and Channel teams. 
 
Production launch of new insurance self-fit hardware product. 
  Over 243,000 connected units in operation (FY-2018: 251,000). 
  New contract wins with LexisNexis and Ingenie, with launch inventory for both supplied in quarter 4. 

R&D spend down 10%, however still £4.3m invested. 

Outlook 

 

The new financial year has begun with new contract awards from two further insurance companies, 
with revenues already commenced.  

  Revenues from new insurance contract wins expected to impact strongly the second half of the new 

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financial year. 
The AA Smart Breakdown launch is expected to provide a lift to revenues in the second half of the 
financial year. 
Fleet sales team’s performance is continuing to improve, securing a higher value of contracts than the 
corresponding period last year with this momentum expected to continue. 
Early months in current financial year confirm realisation of the £2.0m cost savings. 

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  Given the disappointment of last year, we are being prudent with our outlook, with market 

expectations of a relatively modest recovery (low double digit growth) in revenues with small 
adjusted profitability. 

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Strategic Report (Continued) 

AT A GLANCE 

Connected Business 

Trakm8 is a UK-based big data company. As leaders in the fleet management, insurance and automotive 
sectors, we enable businesses to enhance their operations through a wide-range of telematics, camera and 
optimisation solutions. Collecting data through intellectual property (‘IP’)-owned hardware, Trakm8 fine-tunes 
algorithms and creates solutions that assist private drivers and commercial fleets with the reduction of risk, 
fuel consumption and insurance premiums, while improving productivity, safety and compliance. 

As a fully integrated business designing, manufacturing and supporting our own solutions we provide the best 
customer service possible by not having to rely on third parties (apart from the cellular network).  

Pioneering solutions 

The Group’s product portfolio includes a range of telematics devices, from self-install dongles to 4G integrated 
telematics cameras. We currently have almost a quarter of a million devices in operation. 

Number of connected units 

243,000 (FY-2018: 251,000) 

Fleet Management & Optimisation 

Fleet Management 

Trakm8 has market leading software solutions for the entire fleet management activities built out in the 
Insight platform. A combination of telematics, cameras, tachograph data retrieval, EPOD and route 
optimisation and scheduling software empowers businesses to make informed decisions about fleet 
operations - and to tackle a diverse range of obstacles. Benefits to fleets include the introduction of safer 
driving practices, reductions in fuel, obtaining lower insurance premiums, having a smaller carbon footprint 
and automating administrative tasks. Advanced algorithms are deployed to measure risk and efficiency driving 
behaviours, feeding back to the driver on apps and in cab displays. Advanced Driver Assistance Systems 
feature on the cameras to warn the driver, reducing the cost of accidents 

Optimisation 

Through the development and application of pioneering algorithms, we are able to improve the operational 
efficiency and productivity of our customers. Our optimisation algorithms can be administered to a number of 
sectors including transport and logistics, energy management, mobility and electric vehicles (EVs). Trakm8 has 
a fully integrated optimization solution built into the core Insight solution and provides customer specific 
bespoke solutions when this is required. 

Revenue 

£10.8m (FY-2018: £13.5m) 

Number of connected units 

76,000 (FY-2018: 73,000)

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AT A GLANCE (CONTINUED) 

Insurance & Automotive 

Insurance 

Insurers and brokers use our telematics hardware and data to better calculate risk among policyholders. Our 
self-install and fitted to vehicle devices monitor high-risk driving styles and enable businesses to calculate 
relative premiums based on real-world driving data. In addition, our leading algorithms allow insurance 
companies to speed up and better control the first notification of loss (FNOL) claims process.  Post year end we 
launched “Driveably” a plug and play insurance telematics software solution aimed at smaller brokers, who 
can launch a telematics based insurance solution in minimal time and with low investment costs in systems. 

Automotive 

Our automotive team works with businesses to supply aftermarket connected vehicle technologies to its end 
users to predict and report vehicles faults. Automotive solutions include the remote identification of vehicle 
and battery faults, breakdown assistance apps, and reminders for MOT dates, servicing and tax renewals. 
Specialist applications include electric vehicle system monitoring and tailored solutions to the vehicle leasing 
companies to reduce costs in the management of service, repair and maintenance outcomes. 

Revenue 

£8.3m (FY-2018: £12.6m) 

Number of connected units 

167,000 (FY-2018: 178,000) 

Clients 

The Group has built client relationships with large corporates, SME’s, down to sole traders either directly or via 
partners who provide intermediary marketing support. These relationships often enable us to cross-sell 
solutions and facilitate a high rate of contract renewals and extensions. 

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Strategic Report (Continued) 

EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT 

FY-2019 was a disappointing year in terms of financial results.  We failed to meet our revenue, profit and cash 
generation  expectations  due  to  a  number  of  sales  related  events.    Our  largest  customer  had  a  significant 
reduction in market share in the young driver insurance market reducing revenues and installed base. We had 
expected reductions  due  to lower  prices at the  customer  when  the  contract had  been  renewed  early  in  the 
year  but  this  only  compounded  the  loss  of  the  reduced  volume.  We  had  expected  that  volume  from  new 
insurances  customers  would  have  made  a  material  difference  to  the  second  half  of  the  financial  year,  but 
delays in their programmes significantly hit our revenues. The delays in programme launch of the connected 
car proposition by breakdown companies was unexpected and substantially impacted revenues particularly in 
the  second  half.  The  Fleet  Management  sales  team  simply  failed  to  win  enough  business  to  meet  our 
expectations. Political and economic uncertainty certainly played their part, and the effect of US sanctions on 
Iran  impacted  a  multi-million-pound  contract  for  the  supply  of  Insurance  solutions  into  Iran.  Change  was 
needed and the replacement with new resources started to make a significant difference in the final quart of 
the year but it was too little, too late. 

The  revenues  of  the  business  fell  by  35%  and  the  Group  posted  an  adjusted  loss  before  tax  of  £1.5m. 
Connections fell by 3% to 243,000. The total fleet management connections increased by 4% over the year to 
76,000 (FY-2018: 73,000). Telematics for  insurance/automotive connections for the reasons  explained  above 
reduced.  At  the  year-end  we  had  167,000  insurance/automotive  connections  (FY-2018:  178,000),  which  is  a 
reduction of 6%.   Recurring service revenues reduced by 6% to £10.1m (FY-2018: £10.8 m)  

However, FY-2019 was a year of excellent progress in many internally focussed activities. The Group continued 
to focus on operations, fully consolidating the acquisitions from earlier years of Roadsense and Routemonkey. 
Engineering solutions improved considerably, maintaining the market leading technology we have. Efficiency 
improvements  in  many  aspects  of  our  operations  reduced  direct  and  indirect  costs.  During  the  year  we 
secured  the  services  of  a  number  of  highly  talented  and  experienced  sales  staff  for  our  Fleet  Management 
sales team, and as the year progressed their contribution started to make a difference. 

The  investment  in  engineering  resources,  whilst  some  £0.5m  less  than  the  previous  year,  has  continued  to 
deliver market-leading software and hardware solutions. Trakm8’s Insight platform provides superb customer 
experience and data, enabling vehicle operators to significantly improve operational efficiencies and reduction 
in risk. The RoadHawk 600 integrated telematics and camera product is the first in the UK using 4G technology 
and has been implemented by large and small enterprises. A technical challenge with the product lead us to 
implement a product update and replacement in the field of a large number of units, which addressed the field 
issue and has enabled EU deployment. Presently, almost 5,000 units are deployed. A further generation of the 
self-fit telematics devices has been introduced. 

We have continued to invest in our software solutions, algorithms and devices, ensuring that Trakm8 retains 
market-leading solutions with the widest and deepest offer in the market today. 

Post-year end, we have announced contracts with two additional insurance companies. 

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Strategic Report (Continued) 

EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT (CONTINUED) 

Research and development (‘R&D’) 

Trakm8  has  maintained  a  significant  level  of  investment  in  R&D  although  slightly  below  the  level  of  the 
previous  year.  The  Board  believes  that  this  level  of  investment  is  necessary  to  retain  a  portfolio  of  market-
leading  technology.  Trakm8  continues  to  focus  on  owning  the  intellectual  property  (‘IP’)  we  use  in  our 
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  R&D  investment  has  concentrated  on  building  out  the  latest  self-fit  device,  the  improved  camera, 
algorithms for crash and risk, Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) and optimisation, and the capability 
of the Insight platform to provide best-in-class data analytics. As identified in previous years, the requirement 
to do more for less cost remains a key strategy as this widens the opportunity to expand the rate of growth as 
the ROI for our customers improves. 

Governance  

Of  the  two  widely  recognised  formal  corporate  governance  codes,  we  adopted  the  Quoted  Companies 
Alliance’s  (QCA)  Corporate  Governance  Code  for  small  and  mid-size  quoted  companies,  which  the  Board 
considers the most appropriate for the size and structure of the Group. More information can be found in the 
Governance Report section of this report and our website.  

Please  see  https://www.trakm8.com/investor-relations/corporate-governance 
statement. 

for  our 

full  compliance 

Dividend 

The Group does not propose to recommend a dividend for the year at the forthcoming AGM.  However, the 
Board will continue to review its dividend policy in light of future results and investment requirements. 

People 

The  number  of  people  Trakm8  employs  has  reduced  slightly  during  FY-2019  as  reductions  in  operational 
headcount were partially offset by increases in our sales and marketing teams. In total our staff numbers have 
reduced by 8% over the year.  

In a year when the business did not perform to expectations, the teams had to devote themselves even more 
diligently to the cause.  We have an exceptional team and I would like to thank everyone for their hard work, 
dedication and contribution to the ongoing success of the business. 

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EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT (CONTINUED) 

Outlook 

We  continue  to  drive  efficiencies  and  maintain  product  enhancements,  and  we  are  aiming  to  focus  on  a 
smaller number of activities and execute them much better. The bulk of the available resource and energy is 
focused on marketing and selling. 

Our  Fleet  sales  team’s  performance  is  continuing  to  improve,  securing  a  higher  value  of  contracts  than  the 
corresponding period last year with this momentum expected to continue. This and the new contract awards 
from  two  further  insurance  companies  is  expected  to  deliver  growth  in  the  first  half  of  this  financial  year 
compared to the first half last year. 

The AA Smart Breakdown launch and the two major new insurance contract wins are expected to provide a lift 
to revenues in the second half of the financial year. As many Fleet deals take some time to deploy the good 
recent  progress  in  contract  wins  will  impact  the  second  half  more  than  the  first  half,  so  this  too  makes  the 
expected trading performance of the group to be more significantly second half loaded than ideal. 

Trading to date confirm the realisation of operational and efficiency cost savings of £2.0m that were actioned 
in the prior financial year. 

Given the disappointing failure to predict the outcome last year, it is prudent to be tempered in our outlook 
but current market expectations are for a relatively modest recovery (low double digit growth) in our revenues 
and very modest adjusted profitability for the financial year as a whole. The Board is confident that this will be 
achieved. 

John Watkins 

EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN 

5 July 2019 

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OUR STRATEGY 

OUR MISSION 

Trakm8 is an innovative and diverse UK-based technology company, focused on fleet management, insurance 
and automotive telematics, and optimisation.  Trakm8 strives to proactively provide actionable insights which 
reduce risk and improve efficiency for its customers.  From a firm foundation of integrity and family values, 
Trakm8 encourages and develops its talented people to create world-leading solutions that are ethically 
sourced, proudly manufactured, and professionally sold.  By upholding these ideals, Trakm8 aims to deliver 
growth in long-term value to shareholders. 

OUR STRATEGY 

1)      Increasing our market share 

The Group will continue to expand the number of connections in operation, with a particular focus on 
expanding outside of the UK. 

Progress in 2019 

The total number of units in operation reduced by 3% in FY-2019. A wide number of Fleet contract wins 
increased the Fleet installed base by 4%. The Group also secured two major insurance telematics contracts 
with launch stocks delivered, but not connected. The Group invested significantly in Sales and Marketing 
resources during the year, restructuring the Fleet Management sales team and overall sales and marketing 
headcount increasing by 6 on the prior year.  With the expansion of the number of roadside assistance 
companies deploying Trakm8 technology internationally, the company made some progress on the strategy of 
expanding the percentage of revenues generated outside of the UK.  

Focus for 2020 

Increased investment in sales and marketing will allow us to maximise solution sales via our targeted routes to 
market, including: direct sales, channel and via our relaunched digital strategy. A modest increase in sales 
team headcount will ensure the Group maximizes value from existing client partnerships to boost further sales 
opportunities; while ensuring our order pipeline from new customers remains strong. As we introduce new 
integrated services and further develop our digital sales platform, we aim to expand geographically in Europe 
and Asia.  

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OUR STRATEGY (CONTINUED) 

2)  Delivering a cutting-edge solutions portfolio  

We plan to reduce again modestly the level of investment in research and development whilst maintaining our 
market-leading product portfolio and meet the demands of our customers.  

Progress in 2019 

We focused heavily on enhancing our existing solutions: Connect 330, Insight and updated RoadHawk 600 
products. We have built out improved algorithms for risk, crash, Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) 
and optimisation. We have created an insurance broker specific, out of the box complete solution, called 
Driveably that will allow customers to quickly deploy an insurance telematics solution without integration. Our 
Connectedcare solution is further enhanced enabling service, maintenance and repair propositions to work 
more effectively, giving both parts companies and breakdown assistance businesses an aftermarket solution to 
the connected car challenges. 

Focus for 2020 

We will reduce our expenditure in R&D again modestly this year by being more focused on our core areas of 
expertise. We will continue developing products and solutions to meet the demands of our customers and 
market trends. This strategy will see further investment in algorithms and software to increase relevance of 
propositions to market; improved features for our Trakm8connectedcare solution; improving crash detection 
algorithms; and the continued development of ADAS. We will further progress the integration of fuel 
management, insurance, and vehicle servicing.  

3)      Streamlining our internal operations 

The Group will continue to focus on improving operational efficiencies and its cost as a percentage of 
revenues. 

Progress in 2019 

The Group found another £2m of annualised operational cost savings in both direct and indirect costs. We did 
not implement the Enterprise Level ERP system as planned due to some unexpected issues with the MRP 
functionality. We did invest in market leading test and assembly equipment for the new self-fit device, halving 
throughput times. We did not make the move into the new factory as the demand did not justify it. 

Focus in 2020 

Now that the MRP issues are resolved, we will be implementing the ERP system which will continue to 
transform our internal operations and processes, in order to provide the foundation for our next stages of 
growth. We will continue to drive out costs through better utilisation of hosting and technology. Currently, we 
do not expect we will need to utilise in the current financial year the additional space for manufacturing but 
the plans are in place should demand grow significantly later in the year. 

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FINANCE DIRECTOR’S REPORT 

Group Revenue (£’000) 
of which, Solutions Revenue (£’000) 
of which, Recurring Revenue (£’000) 
(Loss)/ Profit before tax (£’000) 
Adjusted (Loss)/ Profit before tax1 (£’000) 
Basic (loss)/earnings per share (p) 
Adjusted basic (loss)/earnings per share (p) 
1
 Before exceptional costs and share based payments 
2
 Restatement due to adoption of IFRS15, details provided in note 31 

Revenue 

2019 

19,145 
 19,145  
10,087 
 (3,563)  
 (1,452)  
(6.20)  
(1.89) 

2018 
Restated2 
29,361 
 26,088  
10,826 
453  
 2,074  
2.72  
6.51 

Change 

-35% 
-27% 
-7% 
n/a 
n/a 
n/a 
n/a 

Group revenue decreased by 35% to £19.1m (FY-2018: £29.4m), this was due to Product revenues which 
decreased from £3.3m to £nil following the planned exit from CEM activities.  All sub-contract electronic 
manufacturing activities had ceased by end of 2018 financial year.  Additionally Solutions revenue reduced by 
27% to    £19.1m (FY-2018: £26.1m) due to a significant reduction in market share in the young driver market 
at our largest customer, delays from new insurance customers and delays in the launch of the connected car 
proposition by breakdown companies.  Additionally new business sales in the Fleet Management part of our 
business failed to meet our expectations.  Recurring revenue generated from service and maintenance fees 
decreased by 7% to £10.1m (FY-2018: £10.8m) due to the reduction in Connections and lower prices in our 
largest customer contract.    

(Loss)/ Profit before tax 

The Group reported a loss before tax of £3.6m (FY-2018: Profit £0.5m).  This deterioration in profitability was 
due to the decline in revenue, which was delivered at slightly improved gross margins (due to change in mix) 
resulting in a £3.9m decline in gross profit.  Additionally other income decreased by £0.1m, non-recurring 
exceptional costs increased by £0.5m (as detailed below) and £0.4m increase in depreciation and amortisation, 
primarily from capitalised development costs, reflecting the significant investment undertaken by the group in 
earlier years.  These were offset by other overheads decreasing by £0.9m which reflects the cost saving 
initiatives we have put in place.   

Adjusted (Loss)/ Profit before tax 

The disappointing trading performance resulted in adjusted profit before tax decreasing to a loss of £1.5m (FY-
2018: Profit £2.1m).  The £3.9m reduction in gross profit converted into adjusted profit before tax, with 
administrative costs excluding exceptional costs, depreciation and amortisation down £0.8m on prior year 
offset by £0.4m increase in depreciation and amortisation and a £0.1m reduction in other income.   During the 
year the company has increased its investment in sales and marketing with headcount increasing by 7%, 
however overall costs remained flat due to a reduction in commission due to the poor performance.  Overhead 
savings resulted from reduction in expensed R&D spend of £0.5m and a reduction in other overheads of £0.3m 
as a result on ongoing efficiency savings. 

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FINANCE DIRECTOR’S REPORT (CONTINUED) 

Exceptional Costs 

Exceptional costs total £1.9m (FY-2018: £1.4m) include integration and restructuring costs relating to prior 
year acquisitions and additional costs relating to the acquisition of Roadsense Technology Limited.  
Additionally, significant product component refit costs were incurred on a recently launched product, these 
issues have been fixed by year end.  The Group also rolled out an enhanced hardware product to two existing 
customers following a product upgrade to drive increases in market opportunity.  Also, the Group provided for 
the cost of work and solutions supplied in the prior year under a contract to supply insurance solutions to Iran.  

Balance Sheet 

2019 

Non-Current Assets 
Net Current Assets 
Non-Current Liabilities 
Net Assets 
2
 Restatement due to adoption of IFRS15, details provided in note 31 

£’000 
22,736 
5,765 
6,407 
22,094 

2018 
Restated2 
£’000 
21,534 
6,159 
6,313 
21,380 

Net Assets increased by £0.7m to £22.1m (FY-2018: £21.4m) reflecting the £3.0m subscription during the 
financial year, offset by the loss for the year.   

Non-current assets increased by £1.2m to £22.7m (FY-2018: £21.5m).  This is due to the continued investment 
in development in both software and hardware with capitalised development costs in the year totaling £3.4m 
(FY-2018: £3.4m), offset by a £0.4m increase in amortisation to £1.5m (FY-2018: £1.1m). The balance of the 
movement relates to the sale of the freehold property, reduction in the receivable due on assets leased out 
and amortisation of other intangible assets. 

Cash Flow 

2019 

Net Cash generated from operations 
Investing activities 
Free Cash Flow1 
Financing activities 
Change in Cash in Year 
Net Debt3 
1
 Cash generated from operating activities less cash used in investing activities (excluding cashflows related to acquisitions) 
2
 Restatement due to adoption of IFRS15, details provided in note 31 
3
 Total borrowings less cash and cash equivalents  

£’000 
                         (1,752) 
(3,179) 
                          (4,931)  
                        2,664 
                        (2,267) 
                        5,629 

2018 
Restated2 
£’000 
                         4,735 
(3,716) 
                          1,019  
                           463 
                        1,482 
                        3,300 

Cash from operating activities decreased in the year to an outflow of £1.8m (FY-2018: £4.7m inflow), which 
included R&D tax credit cash receipts of £1.0m (FY-2018: £1.6m).  The R&D tax credit cash receipt reflects the 
Group’s investment in development.  The operational cash outflow is reflective of the reported loss and 
change in working capital.   

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FINANCE DIRECTOR’S REPORT (CONTINUED) 

Cash Flow (Continued) 

Free cash outflow of £4.9m (FY-2018: inflow £1.0m) is due to the decline in trading, with cash outflows from 
investing activities reducing by £0.5m to £3.2m (FY-2018: £3.7m).   Reduction in cash outflow from investing 
activities was due to the sale and leaseback of the Shaftesbury property that was completed in February 2019. 

Financing activities generated £2.7m (FY-2018: £0.5m) due to the subscription in December which raised 
approximately £3.0m (net of expenses) to fund general working capital requirements and further strengthen 
the Group’s balance sheet, which was offset by debt repayments of £0.4m. 

Net Debt   

Net debt increased by £2.3m to £5.6m (FY-2018: £3.3m).  Cash balances total £1.2m (FY-2018: £3.5m) and 
total borrowings £6.8m (FY-2018: £6.8m) of which £1.8m (FY-2018: £2.8m) was a term loan with HSBC, £4.4m 
(FY-2018: £3.4m) were amounts drawn under our £5m revolving credit facility with HSBC and £0.6m (FY-2018: 
£0.5m) were obligations under finance leases. 

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KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 

Achieving our objectives 

The Board monitors the following key performance indicators to ensure the objective of the Group are being 
achieved. 

Solutions Revenue  Recurring Service 

£19.1m: 2019 
£26.1m: 2018 
£21.1m: 2017 
£17.2m: 2016 

Revenue 
£10.1m: 2019 
£10.8m: 2018 
£9.8m: 2017 
£8.3m: 2016 

Connected units - 
Insurance/Automotive 
167,000: 2019 
178,000: 2018 
124,000: 2017 
  92,000: 2016  

Connected units – 
Fleet Management 
76,000: 2019 
73,000: 2018 
66,000: 2017 
59,000: 2016  

Performance in 
2019 
Total Solutions 
revenue decreased 
by 27% to £19.1m.  
This decline was 
across both our 
fleet & 
optimisation 
business and 
insurance & 
automotive 
businesses due to 
delays in contracts 
and disappointing 
performance by 
the sales team. 

Focus for 2020 
Continuing driving 
increasing level of 
performance from 
the Fleet 
Management Sales 
and Marketing 
teams, and 
converting the 
recently won 
contracts in the 
insurance and 
automotive 
businesses to 
consistent month 
on month 
revenues.   

Performance in 
2019 
Total recurring 
revenues earned 
during the year 
reduced by 7% to 
£10.1m due to the 
reduction in 
connections and 
lower unit prices in 
our largest 
customer contract.   
Fleet recurring 
revenues per unit 
per month 
increased due to 
higher service fees 
with Camera 
customers 

Focus for 2020 
Despite the market 
trend for richer 
data for lower 
costs, continued 
growth will be 
achieved by 
increasing the 
number of devices 
in operation and 
driving higher 
service fees either 
from our  
integrated cameras 
and by increasing 
our data analytics 
services. 

Performance in 2019 

This refers to the 
amount of telematics 
devices reporting in 
operation from our 
insurance & 
automotive customers. 
Connected Units in 
this market decreased 
by 6%.  

Performance in 
2019 
This refers to the 
amount of 
telematics devices 
in operation from 
our fleet 
customers. The 
total number of 
units from our Fleet 
business increased 
by 4%. 

Focus for 2020 
We expect 
restructured Fleet 
Management sales 
and marketing 
teams will result in 
continued, but 
higher growth in 
fleet connections in 
2020. 

Focus for 2020 
Converting recently 
won contracts in this 
business to consistent 
revenue will drive 
increases in 
connections.  Also 
selling the new 
“Driveably” platform 
to new customers will 
enable new customers 
to convert to revenue 
much quicker.  

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KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (CONTINUED) 

Adjusted (loss)/ profit 
before tax 
£1.5m Loss: 2019 
£2.1m Profit: 2018 
£1.1m Profit: 2017 
£3.8m Profit: 2016 

Gross Margin 

53.6%: 2019 
48.1%: 2018 
49.0%: 2017 
48.3%: 2016 

Performance in 2019 
Adjusted Loss before Tax 
(before exceptional costs 
and share based 
payments) decreased by 
£3.5m due to the poor 
trading performance 
despite a £0.8m 
reduction in other 
overheads. 

Focus for 2020 
Delivering a positive 
adjusted profit before tax 
for the financial year by 
delivering revenue 
growth at consistent 
gross margin whilst 
maintaining tight control 
over overheads.  

Performance in 2019 
Gross margin percentage 
improved to 54% despite 
the overall decline in 
Gross Profit.  This is due 
to the change in revenue 
mix, with the higher 
margin software and 
service revenues being a 
higher proportion of 
revenue compared to the 
prior year.  This is 
reflective of the 
significant reduction in 
hardware sales due to 
the challenges already 
explained.   

Focus for 2020 
Strategy is to continue to 
drive growth in our 
recurring service 
revenues through 
enhanced data diagnostic 
services and optimisation 
benefits. This is expected 
to lead to increases in 
our gross margins.  

Net cash generated from 
Operating Activities 
(£1.8m): 2019 
£4.7m: 2018 
£0.7m: 2017 
£4.5m: 2016 

Performance in 2019 
Our cash generation from 
operating activities 
significantly declined on 
the prior year due to the 
poor trading 
performance and 
movement in working 
capital. 

Focus for 2020 
Return to positive cash 
generation by returning 
to profit and delivering 
continued improvements 
in our working capital 
cycles.  However, cash 
generation is expected to 
continue to be impacted 
by more customers 
moving to monthly 
payment models 
(including SaaS). 

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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 

Protecting customer data, delivering results 

Data Protection 

 
 

 
 

Successfully renewed ISO27001 during 2019 
continued to invest in our IT platforms to allow us to identify and address potential issues more 
successfully and to better defend against malware, viruses or malicious attacks 
continued to train all of our staff in Data Protection and Information Security  
Successfully passed a number of independent penetration tests during the financial year 

Quality 

Successfully renewed ISO9001 during 2019  

 
  All manufacturing staff have been trained to IPC standards to improve both quality levels and 

productivity 
Enhanced electrostatic discharge controls put in place within manufacturing, assembly and stores 

 
  Overhauled our Supplier Monitoring strategy to ensure our supply chain is performing to our 

expectations and to ensure Trakm8 expectations regarding corporate social responsibility are being 
met by our suppliers. 

  All staff trained for TCF, Anti-Bribery and Modern Slavery 

Environmental 

Successfully renewed ISO14001 during 2019 

 
  Update training on environmental legislation delivered to Compliance team members 
 

Successfully underwent an independent audit of our waste management strategy by Waste Care (our 
waste compliance partners) 

Health & Safety 

 

 

Continued our good H&S record with no significant accidents or incidents being recorded and a 
significant reduction in number of minor accidents following a program of staff education and training 
on correct use of PPE 
Key staff have been trained in the last 12 months on IOSH and NEBOSH standards

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CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CONTINUED) 

In addition to improving internal processes, Trakm8 is committed to providing technology which contributes to 
improving road safety and reducing the environmental impact of motor vehicles in the UK and beyond. 
Feedback from our customers indicates we have delivered the following benefits: 

20% reduction in fuel usage 
31% reduction in engine idling 
18% reduction in CO2 per mile 
Cost of idling down 69% 
30% increase in productivity 

 
 
 
 
 
  Up to 20% reduction in accident rates 
 
13% reduction in speeding events 
 
Insurance premium reduction of 10% 

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RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK 

Our risk management process is designed to improve the likelihood of delivering our business objectives, to 
protect the interests of our key stakeholders, to enhance the quality of our decision making, and to assist in 
the safeguarding of our assets. This includes people, finances, property and our reputation.  

The Board takes overall responsibility for risk management, evaluating our exposure to individual strategic 
risks, overseeing our risk governance structure and internal control framework. Strategic decisions are 
evaluated against our tolerance levels to the risks identified and the Board continues to monitor these trends 
in order to implement mitigation activities in line with our long-term strategy.  

Approach to Risk Management 

Each year the Board carries out a robust assessment of the principal risks facing the Group, including those 
that would threaten our business model, future performance, solvency or liquidity. The report overleaf 
summarises these possible risks and how they are being managed or mitigated.  

The Executive Chairman and the senior management team take responsibility for reviewing the effectiveness 
of the risk management process and the risk register is subjected to detailed review and discussion.  
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 possible 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.  

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

• Strategic – medium to low tolerance for risks arising from poor business decisions or substandard 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.  During the 
year we enhanced our testing procedures for new product launches following the issues experienced in the 
previous financial year. 

• 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. 

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RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK (CONTINUED) 

RISK MANAGEMENT PROCESS  

Risk management is a key element of the Group’s decision making process as there is a risk element in all areas 
of its activities and these risks need to be managed appropriately. Alongside the strong governance structure 
and effective internal controls, the risk management process gives the Board assurance that risks are being 
appropriately identified and managed.  

The Risk Management Process is set up in the following way:  

• An annual business review to set strategies, objectives and agreed initiatives to achieve its goals, taking 
account of the risk appetite set by the Board.  

• Day-to-day operations are supported by a clear schedule of authority limits that define processes and 
procedures for approving material decisions. This ensures that projects are approved at the appropriate level 
of management, with the largest and most complex projects being approved by the Board.  

• The Group’s Executive Directors also compile their own risk assessment, ensuring that a top-down approach 
is undertaken when considering the Group-wide environment.  

• The Group’s Audit and Risk Committee assists the Board in assessing and monitoring risk management across 
the Group. The role of the Committee is to ensure the timely identification and robust management of 
inherent and emerging risks. The Committee reviews the risk register as it develops, to ensure net risk and 
proposed further actions are together consistent with the risk appetite set by the Board. 

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PRINCIPAL RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES 
Link to strategic priorities 

1 
Delivering a 
cutting-edge 
solutions portfolio  

2 
Increasing our 
market share 

3 
Streamlining our 
internal operations  

Principal Risk  

Potential Impact 

Mitigation 

Significant 
operational system 
failure 

Reputational impact  

Deterioration in 
customer relations  

Our systems are both within the Cloud and within a traditional 
data centre environment.  We provide no single point of failure as 
there is diversity of datacentres from separate suppliers and 
replication of data between data centres.  

2 

Cyber-attack and 
data security 

2 

Brexit and a 
deteriorating 
economic climate 

1, 2 

Operating in a fast 
moving technology 
industry where we 
will always be at 
risk from new 
products being 
launched 

1, 2 

Reduction in revenues, 
profitability and cash 
generation 

Daily point-in-time backups are also taken offsite.    

Insurances are maintained to financially mitigate any risk relating 
to an event that causes significant interruption at our single site 
manufacturing facility. 

Reputational Impact 

We have been re-approved for our ISO 27001 accreditation. 

Deterioration in 
customer relations 

We continue to make considerable investments in security and 
systems for both our internal and customer data. 

We operate a secure development lifecycle and undertake regular 
independent penetration testing of our devices and hosting 
environments. 
Continuous product development and operational efficiency 
improvements to compensate for any potential component 
increases.  It is estimated that at worst a hard Brexit would only 
result in import tariffs up to a maximum of 5% on WTO terms for 
some component supplies. 

Geographical expansion will provide opportunities to build natural 
currency hedges. 

Continued focus in Sales & Marketing on demonstrating the ROI 
from the solution to ensure it is compelling financially for our 
customers. 

We heavily invest in research and development to ensure we are 
at the forefront of telematics technology.  

We are device agnostic and will interface into OEMs and 
autonomous vehicles as a central data hub. 

Liability claims 

A potential hard Brexit 
could impact cost of 
goods further impact 
the exchange rates and 
provide legislative 
uncertainty. We've 
assessed the greatest 
potential impact to be 
on our supply chain & 
product approvals 

Brexit has already had a 
sales impact as a result 
of uncertainty delaying 
customer decisions 
Decelerating sales 
growth and affecting 
profit 

Delay in achieving 
projected revenues 

OEM fit telematics to all 
strategy 

Autonomous cars 

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PRINCIPAL RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES (CONTINUED) 

Principal Risk 
Adverse mobile 
network changes 

2 

Potential Impact 
Reputational Impact 
Deterioration in 
customer relations 
Reduction in 
revenues, profitability 
and cash generation 

Attracting and 
maintaining high 
quality employees 

Loss of key personnel  
Potential business 
disruption  

Mitigation 
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 mobile phone suppliers to provide a quality of service 
and investment in suitable reliable infrastructure. The same is true 
for the GPS network and the Internet. 
We provide interesting work within a growing sector where we have 
significant opportunity and maintaining this is key to employee 
retention.  

1, 2, 3 

Breakdown of 
communication and 
misalignment 

Knowledge of our bespoke systems are spread across a larger pool 
of individuals to mitigate the risk of a key individual leaving the 
business. 

We are now a sponsor on the government highly skilled migrant 
program 
We maintain regular discussions with banks and other financial 
institutions. 

We regularly review medium term capital requirements 

Work with world class distributors and manufacturers to mitigate 
the supply chain risk 

Access to long 
term and working 
capital 

1, 2 
Electronics supply 
chain under 
constraint 

2 

Ability to deliver 
business plans 

Long lead-times 
Single source 
suppliers 

By order of the Board 

Jon Furber 

COMPANY SECRETARY 

5 July 2019

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Governance Report 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

John Watkins  
Executive Chairman 

John Watkins has a Master’s Degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford.  Through his 
extensive career he has acquired considerable M&A and 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 two very successful private equity companies that exited with significantly better than 
average IRRs. 

Keith Evans 
Senior Independent Non- Executive Deputy Chairman 

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

Bill Duffy 
Independent Non-Executive Director 

Bill Duffy started working with the company in April 2014 supporting our business and strategy development 
as a Consultant and joined the Board in July 2015. Bill also runs his own consultancy business and is Chairman 
of MotorEasy, a pioneering motoring services platform for UK drivers. 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. 

Nadeem Raza 
Non-Executive Director 

Nadeem Raza joined the Board in January 2019 following the strategic investment by Microlise Group Holdings 
Limited.  As CEO of Microlise, Nadeem has complete responsibility for the operational management and 
control of all Microlise business activities. During his 20 year career with Microlise, Nadeem has fulfilled 
various responsibilities and gained experience across all elements of the business, including sales, system 
integration, marketing, operations and business computing. 

Jon Furber 
Group Finance Director 

Jon joined Trakm8 as Finance Director to the Group in September 2017. Jon has previously held senior finance 
roles at technology growth businesses; he was CFO at AppSense and at Vistorm/HP Information Security (UK), 
and most recently interim CFO at Intrinsic Technology. Jon is a chartered accountant having trained and 
qualified at KPMG. 

Matt Cowley 
Big Data Director 

One of the founders of Trakm8 along with his brother Tim Cowley, Matt is a highly experienced software 
Engineering Director with over 25 years’ experience within the Telematics and Telecommunications industry. 
Awarded an MSc Software Engineering with distinction from University of Oxford in 1998, Matt now leads the 
in-house Big Data team and is passionate about algorithms, machine learning, computer vision and data 
science.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS (CONTINUED) 

Tim Cowley 
Group Strategy Director 

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 was awarded a prestigious Michael Cobham 
scholarship, and stayed with the Cobham Group for eleven years. Alongside his brother Matt, he founded 
Trakm8 is 2002 and is now responsible for the Group Product Strategy and the Advanced Engineering function. 

Sean Morris 
Managing Director – Insurance and Automotive 

Sean Morris has over 30 years’ experience in automotive electrical and electronic engineering at various OEMs 
and Tier 1 suppliers, including Continental, BMW, Honda, and Land Rover, and was Chief Engineer Electrical & 
Electronics, of Aston Martin. Sean has also run a successful turnkey engineering company providing services to 
OEMs such as JLR, Bentley and McLaren. He is now responsible for leading Trakm8’s Insurance and Automotive 
business unit. 

Mark Watkins 
Chief Operating Officer 

Mark has a Master’s Engineering degree 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 responsible for all operational and engineering matters for the Group.

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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. 

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 
third parties as the need arises. The committees during the year have comprised of the two non-executive 
Directors and the Executive Chairman.   

For the financial year ended 31 March 2019 the Directors’ attendance at Board and Committee meetings has 
been as follows: 

Type 
Total Held in period 

Board  Audit  Nomination  Remuneration 
1 

14 

2 

5 

John Watkins  
Keith Evans 
Matt Cowley 
Tim Cowley 
Bill Duffy 
Jon Furber 
Sean Morris 
Mark Watkins 
Nadeem Raza1 
1
 Attended 3 out of 3 Board meetings, 1 out of 1 Audit Committee meetings and 2 out of 2 Remuneration Committee meetings whilst in 
office 

14 
14 
14 
13 
14 
14 
13 
12 
3 

1 
1 
- 
- 
1 
- 
- 
- 
- 

5 
5 
- 
- 
5 
- 
- 
- 
2 

1 
2 
- 
- 
2 
- 
- 
- 
1 

Nominations committee 

The committee met once during the year and appointed Nadeem Raza as Independent Non-Executive Director.  

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, capitalisation of 
development costs and impairment review of Goodwill.  The Audit and Risk Committee also reviewed in detail 
financial projections in concluding on its’ Going Concern assertion.

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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.  

Relations with shareholders 

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 new financial year.  

By order of the Board  

Jon Furber 

COMPANY SECRETARY 

5 July 2019 

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DIRECTORS’ REPORT 

The Directors submit their Directors’ Report and the audited financial statements of the Group for the year 
ended 31 March 2019. 

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 development, 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 
£0.7m. 

Currency risk 

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

Interest rate risk 

The Group regularly monitors the risk of increasing interest rate and the effect this would have on our total 
interest charges. Currently our bank borrowings are linked to variable interest rates and the Group would 
move to fixed if it was deemed appropriate to minimise the effects of further interest rate rises.  

Credit 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. 

RESULTS AND DIVIDENDS 

The Group results for the year ended 31 March 2019 are shown in the Consolidated Statement of 
Comprehensive Income on page 38. The Directors do not recommend the payment of a dividend (2018: £nil).

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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 the Group capitalised development costs of £3.4m and a further £0.9m was 
expensed.  Further details about the Group’s approach to R&D can be found in the Strategic Report. 

GOING CONCERN 

These financial statements are presented on a going concern basis.  The Groups projections for the next 12 
months, and downside sensitivity analysis against its projections along with closing cash balances of £1.2m 
and undrawn revolving credit facilities of £0.65m at 31 March 2019 provide the Directors a reasonable 
expectation that the Group will have adequate financial resources to continue in operation for the 
foreseeable future.  Detailed considerations by the Directors are detailed in note 4 on page 51. 

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 is focused on a smaller number of activities 
with the focus of executing much better.  The Group expects to the re-structured fleet management sales 
team to deliver an increasing rate of organic growth in the UK and international markets.  Revenues are also 
expected to increase during the financial year from existing and recently won contracts in the Insurance and 
Automotive sectors.   

The Group will continue to invest in our software solutions, algorithms and devices to ensure that the Group 
retains the market-leading solutions with the widest and deepest offer in the market today.   

Further acquisitions will be assessed and only if our strict criteria are met will be progressed. 

EMPLOYEES 

The Group’s employment policies are designed to ensure that they meet the statutory, social and market 
practices where the Group operates. The Group regularly provides employees with information about the 
progress of the Group, wider economic factors and also matters likely to be of concern to them. The Group 
recognises the importance of its employees and their training and conducts annual appraisals with each 
member of staff.  

The Group is committed to employment policies, which follow best practices and are based on equal 
opportunities for all employees regardless of sex, race, colour, disability or marital status. The Group gives full 
and fair consideration to applications for employment for disabled persons, having regard to their particular 
aptitudes and abilities. If members of staff become disabled the Group will continue their employment either 
in the same or an alternative position, with appropriate retraining being given if necessary. 

POST BALANCE SHEET EVENTS 

On the 27 June 2019 the Group entered into an Amendment and Restatement Agreement with HSBC that 
amended the covenants and amended the margin on both the term loan and revolving credit facility to 4.5% 
above base rate and LIBOR respectively.  All other terms of the facilities remained unchanged.  

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DIRECTORS 

The Directors of the company who were in office during the year and up to the date of signing the financial 
statements were: 

John Watkins 
Keith Evans    
Matt Cowley 
Tim Cowley 
Bill Duffy  
Sean Morris 
Mark Watkins  
Jon Furber  
Nadeem Raza (appointed 9 January 2019) 

DIRECTORS AND THEIR INTERESTS 

At 31 March 2019 the Directors’ interests in the shares of the Company are detailed below: 

This table is audited 

1p Ordinary 
shares at 31 
March 2019 

% of issued Ordinary 
share capital 
(50,004,002 Ordinary 
shares)  

1p Ordinary 
shares at 1 April 
2018 

% of issued 
Ordinary share 
capital (35,723,254 
Ordinary shares) 

7,768,768 
381,119 
1,994,203 
2,268,127 
375,000 
596,503 
- 
318,310 
178,622 

15.54% 
0.76% 
3.99% 
4.54% 
0.75% 
1.19% 
- 
0.64% 
0.36% 

6,177,859 
153,846 
1,744,203 
1,949,945 
140,000 
28,321 
- 
250,128 
- 

17.29% 
0.43% 
4.88% 
5.46% 
0.39% 
0.08% 
- 
0.70% 
- 

John Watkins 
Keith Evans 
Matt Cowley  
Tim Cowley  
Bill Duffy  
Jon Furber 
Sean Morris  
Mark Watkins  
Nadeem Raza* 

*Nadeem Raza is the CEO and principle shareholder in Microlise which holds 10,000,000 ordinary shares in the Company. 

The Directors had no interest in the share capital of the Company’s subsidiary undertakings at 31 March 2019 
or on the date on which these financial statements were approved.

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DIRECTORS’ REMUNERATION 

The Directors’ remuneration for the year ended 31 March 2019 was: 

This table is audited 

£’000 

John Watkins  
Keith Evans 
Matt Cowley 
Tim Cowley 
Bill Duffy  
Jon Furber 
Sean Morris 
Mark Watkins  
Nadeem Raza 
Total 

Salaries & 
benefits 

Fees 

Total 
remuneration 
to year ended 
31 March 2019 

Pension 
contribution  

Total aggregate 
emoluments to 
year ended 31 
March 2019 

Total aggregate 
emoluments to  
year ended 31 
March 2018 

 285  
 36  
 103  
 119  
 36  
 166  
 106  
 152  
- 
1,003 

 -   
 -   
 -   
 -   
 -   
 -   
 -   
 -   
- 
 -   

 285  
 36  
 103  
 119  
 36  
 166  
 106  
 152  
- 
1,003 

 -   
 1  
 3  
 3  
 -   
 9  
 5  
 7  
- 
28 

 285  
 37  
 106  
 122  
 36  
 175  
 111  
 159  
- 
1,031 

 285  
 32  
 100  
 115  
 31  
 90  
 118  
 148  
- 
919 

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DIRECTORS’ SHARE OPTIONS 

At 31 March 2019 the following options had been granted to the Company's Directors and remain current and 
unexercised: 

This table is audited 

John Watkins 

Option 
exercise 
price 
£0.45 
£1.93 
£0.99 
£0.34 
£0.34 

Balance as at 
1 April 2018 

Granted 
during 
year 
 -   
 -   
 -   
 -    125,000 
 -    300,000 

250,000 
225,000 
75,000 

Keith Evans  

£0.99 

75,000 

 -   

Matt Cowley 

Tim Cowley 

Bill Duffy  

Sean Morris  

Mark Watkins  

Jon Furber 

£0.45 
£1.93 
£0.34 

£0.45 
£1.93 
£0.34 

£0.99 
£0.34 
£0.34 

£0.88 
£1.93 
£0.90 
£0.34 

£0.58 
£1.93 
£0.99 
£0.90 
£0.34 
£0.34 

£1.38 
£0.34 
£0.34 

125,000 
25,000 
 -   

125,000 
50,000 
 -   

75,000 
 -   
 -   

 -   
 -   
25,000 

 -   
 -   
50,000 

 -   
50,000 
75,000 

175,000 
75,000 

 -   
 -   
 -    100,000 
 -    350,000 

200,000 
75,000 
75,000 

 -   
 -   
 -   
 -    100,000 
 -    125,000 
 -    250,000 

475,000 

 -   
 -    125,000 
 -    475,000 

Exercised 
during 
year 
 -   
 -   
 -   
 -   
 -   

Expired/ 
forfeited 
during year 
 -   
225,000 
75,000 
 -   
 -   

Balance as at 
31 March 
2019 
 250,000  
 -   
 -   
 125,000  
 300,000  

Expiry date 

21/01/2024 
21/09/2025 
03/07/2027 
04/03/2029 
04/03/2029 

 -   

 -   
 -   
 -   

 -   
 -   
 -   

 -   
 -   
 -   

 -   
 -   
 -   
 -   

 -   
 -   
 -   
 -   
 -   
 -   

 -   
 -   
 -   

 -   

 75,000  

03/07/2027 

 -   
25,000 
 -   

 -   
50,000 
 -   

75,000 
 -   
 -   

175,000 
75,000 
100,000 
 -   

 -   
75,000 
75,000 
100,000 
 -   
 -   

475,000 
 -   
 -   

 125,000  
 -   
 25,000  

 125,000  
 -   
 50,000  

 -   
 50,000  
 75,000  

 -   
 -   
 -   
 350,000  

 200,000  
 -   
 -   
 -   
 125,000  
 250,000  

 -   
 125,000  
 475,000  

21/01/2024 
21/09/2025 
04/03/2029 

21/01/2024 
21/09/2025 
04/03/2029 

03/07/2027 
02/03/2029 
04/03/2029 

17/12/2024 
21/09/2025 
30/06/2028 
04/03/2029 

06/04/2024 
21/09/2025 
03/07/2027 
30/06/2028 
02/03/2029 
04/03/2029 

26/11/2027 
02/03/2029 
04/03/2029 

All share options were issued at the open market price on the day the options were granted, except the 
options issued on the 5 March 2019, which have an exercise price at a 20% premium to the mid-market closing 
share price on 4 March 2019. 

The Group provides qualifying third 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 2018 and 31 March 2019 the Company held 29,000 of its own 1p Ordinary shares representing 0.06% 
(2018: 0.08%) of the called up share capital.  There were no purchases or sales by the Company during the 
year.

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STATEMENT AS TO DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO THE AUDITORS 

Each Director who was in office on the date of approval of these financial statements has 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 regulation. 

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 parent company financial statements in accordance 
with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards, 
comprising FRS 101 “Reduced Disclosure Framework”, and applicable law). 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 parent company and of the profit or loss of the group and parent company for 
that period. In preparing the financial statements, the directors are required to: 

 

 

select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; 

state whether applicable IFRSs as adopted by the European Union have been followed for the group 
financial statements and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, comprising FRS 101, have been 
followed for the company financial statements, subject to any material departures disclosed and 
explained in the financial statements; 

  make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and 

  prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that 

the group and parent company will continue in business. 

The directors are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the group and parent company and hence for 
taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. 

The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain 
the group and parent company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial 
position of the group and parent company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply 
with the Companies Act 2006 and, as regards the group financial statements, Article 4 of the IAS Regulation. 

The directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the parent 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 5 July 2019 

Jon Furber 
Company Secretary

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Independent auditors’ report to the members of 
Trakm8 Holdings Plc 

Report on the audit of the financial statements 

Opinion 

In our opinion: 

 

 

 

 

Trakm8 Holdings Plc’s group financial statements and parent company financial statements (the 
“financial statements”) give a true and fair view of the state of the group’s and of the parent company’s 
affairs as at 31 March 2019 and of the group’s loss and cash flows for the year then ended; 

the group financial statements have been properly prepared in accordance with International Financial 
Reporting Standards (IFRSs) as adopted by the European Union; 

the parent company financial statements have been properly prepared in accordance with United 
Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards, comprising 
FRS 101 “Reduced Disclosure Framework”, and applicable law); and 

the financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 
2006. 

We have audited the financial statements, included within the Annual Report and Accounts (the “Annual 
Report”), which comprise: the Consolidated Statement of Financial Position as at 31 March 2019, the Parent 
Company Statement of Financial Position as at 31 March 2019, the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive 
Income, the Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity, the Consolidated Statement of Cash-Flows and the 
Parent Company Statement of Changes in Equity for the year then ended; and the notes to the financial 
statements, which include a description of the significant accounting policies. 

Basis for opinion 

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (“ISAs (UK)”) and 
applicable law. Our responsibilities under ISAs (UK) are further described in the Auditors’ responsibilities for the 
audit of the financial statements section of our report. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is 
sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. 

Independence 

We remained independent of the group in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit 
of the financial statements in the UK, which includes the FRC’s Ethical Standard, as applicable to listed entities, 
and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. 

Our audit approach 

Overview 

Overall group materiality: £190,000 (2018: £301,395), based on 1% of revenues. 
Overall parent company materiality: £180,500 (2018: £121,000), based on 1% of 
total assets (capped at £180,500 based on allocation of Group materiality to 
the component). 

We conducted a full-scope audit over four legal entities, including the parent 

company.  

99% of consolidated revenue is covered through the audit of these four legal 

entities. 

Risk of error in revenue recognition for multi-element arrangements. 
Capitalisation of internally generated intangible assets. 
Goodwill impairment assessment. 

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The scope of our audit 

As part of designing our audit, we determined materiality and assessed the risks of material misstatement in the 
financial statements. In particular, we looked at where the directors made subjective judgements, for example in 
respect of significant accounting estimates that involved making assumptions and considering future events that 
are inherently uncertain. As in all of our audits we also addressed the risk of management override of internal 
controls, including evaluating whether there was evidence of bias by the directors that represented a risk of 
material misstatement due to fraud. 

Key audit matters 

Key audit matters are those matters that, in the auditors’ professional judgement, were of most significance in the 
audit of the financial statements of the current period and include the most significant assessed risks of material 
misstatement (whether or not due to fraud) identified by the auditors, including those which had the greatest 
effect on: the overall audit strategy; the allocation of resources in the audit; and directing the efforts of the 
engagement team. These matters, and any comments we make on the results of our procedures thereon, were 
addressed in the context of our audit of the financial statements as a whole, and in forming our opinion thereon, 
and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters. This is not a complete list of all risks identified by our 
audit.  

Key audit matter 

How our audit addressed the key audit matter 

Risk of error in revenue recognition for multi-element 
arrangements 
The Group enters into contracts where there is more 
than one deliverable to be provided to the customer. 
These typically include the provision of hardware, 
software and services, or software and services. The 
accounting for these contracts involves a higher degree 
of judgement, including: 

  Determining whether the contract contains 

performance obligations which should be separated 
for revenue recognition purposes and whether each 
of those elements should be recognised at a point in 
time or over time; 

  Determining the allocation of consideration on a fair 
value basis between components of multi-element 
contracts; and 

  Determining the point at which it is appropriate to 
recognise revenues where revenues are recognised 
in advance of billings. 

Given the above, there is a risk that revenue is not 
accounted for appropriately. 

We have tested the accounting for multi-element 
contracts and the associated revenues recognised in the 
year. Our procedures included: 
Review of a sample of contracts with customers to 
ensure that separate deliverables within contracts have 
been identified in line with contractual terms. Where 
separate deliverables have been identified we have 
ensured that the revenue recognition methodology 
applied appropriately separates out each deliverable; 
Testing of the fair values of revenues attributed to 
different deliverables within the contract by reference 
to appropriate supporting evidence, including stand-
alone selling prices for different elements of revenue 
or, where these do not exist, similar objective evidence 
derived from contract pricing over a number of years; 
and 
Review of contractual terms to ensure that where 
revenues are recognised in advance of billings, the 
Group has an enforceable right to receive consideration 
in the future. 
Based on the work performed we found that contracts 
containing more than one deliverable had been 
appropriately identified, and revenues had been 
separately identified and allocated between different 
deliverables on a reasonable basis. Where revenues 
had been recognised in advance of billings we found 
that the Group had an enforceable right to receive 
consideration in the future. 

Capitalisation of internally generated intangible 
assets 
The Group continues to incur material expenditure on 
development activities (including software). This 
expenditure is capitalised when the development 
project meets the criteria of International Accounting 
Standard 38 'Intangible Assets' (IAS 38). During the 
year the Group capitalised £3.4m of development and 
software expenditure on internally generated 
intangible assets.  The capitalised costs consist of 
internal labour and external bought in costs. 
IAS 38 sets out specific criteria that must be met for an 
asset to be capitalised. These include whether it is 
probable that the expected future economic benefits 

We tested a sample of projects against which costs had 
been capitalised during the year to validate that the 
projects met each of the relevant criteria within IAS 38 
to support the capitalisation of costs. 
We also tested a sample of costs capitalised during the 
year to confirm that the cost of the asset could be 
reliably measured and had been accurately recorded by 
agreeing the capitalised costs back to appropriate audit 
evidence, for example timesheet records, invoices or 
similar supporting documentation.  
Based on our work performed we found that 
management’s assessment of projects against the 
capitalisation criteria within IAS 38 was reasonable, 
and that costs capitalised within projects were 

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Key audit matter 

How our audit addressed the key audit matter 

attributable to the asset will flow to the Group; the cost 
of the asset can be measured reliably; the technical 
feasibility of completing the asset can be demonstrated 
such that it will be available for use or sale; there is an 
intention to complete the asset and use or sell it; the 
Group has the ability to use or sell the asset; and the 
Group has adequate technical, financial and other 
resources to complete the development and to use or 
sell the asset. 
Management apply judgement in determining whether 
or not these criteria are met and there is therefore a 
risk that expenditure may be incorrectly capitalised. 

Goodwill impairment assessment 
The Group has a material goodwill balance which is 
required to be tested for impairment on an annual 
basis in accordance with International Audit Standard 
36 'Impairment of Assets' (IAS 36). Total goodwill at 
year end was £10.4m. 
Goodwill has been tested by reference to its value in 
use. Valuations of this nature are inherently subjective 
and involve a high degree of estimation, for example 
over future cash flows of the group, discount rates 
applied to those cash flows and terminal growth rates. 
This gives rise to an increased risk of error in the 
calculation of value in use and therefore in the overall 
impairment assessment. 

recorded on an appropriate basis. 

We have performed audit procedures over 
management's impairment assessment, including 
testing of the integrity of the cash flow model, the 
methodology applied and assessing key assumptions 
including future cash flows, discount rates and growth 
rates, including sensitivity of these assumptions. 
We have agreed future cash flows to Board approved 
budgets and considered the appropriateness of these 
budgets by reference to historical performance of the 
Group, including understanding revenue split between 
recurring and non-recurring, as well as sales orders 
and pipeline. We have also considered 3 year extended 
forecasts approved by the board.  We have also 
assessed the terminal growth rate against long-term 
GDP growth in the UK and tested the calculation of the 
discount rate and tested the discount rate. 
We have performed sensitivity analysis over key 
assumptions, in particular testing what level of 
sensitivity in the assumptions would cause an 
impairment. 
Based on our audit procedures performed we found the 
model itself, the methodology, the forecasts and the 
assumptions used in the calculation were appropriate 
and we concluded that there was no impairment of 
goodwill. We also found that the related sensitivity 
disclosures in the financial statements were 
appropriate. 

We determined that there were no key audit matters applicable to the parent company to communicate in our 
report. 

How we tailored the audit scope 

We tailored the scope of our audit to ensure that we performed enough work to be able to give an opinion on the 
financial statements as a whole, taking into account the structure of the group and the parent company, the 
accounting processes and controls, and the industry in which they operate. 

The Trakm8 Holdings Plc Group (the "Group") is structured by legal entity and the Group financial statements 
are a consolidation of eight individual legal entities. 

Of these eight individual legal entities, we performed audits of the complete financial information of Trakm8 
Holdings Plc (the parent company), Trakm8 Limited and Route Monkey Limited. All of the above were 
considered to be significant components of the Group, either due to their contribution to revenues and profits of 
the Group as a whole or, in the case of Trakm8 Holdings Plc, due to being the parent entity within the Group 
holding the external debt on behalf of the Group. 

The accounting for all components and the Group consolidation is performed centrally in the UK, with all audit 
work being performed by the Group audit engagement team. Therefore, there is no requirement to utilise 
separate component auditors. 

99% of the Group's consolidated revenue is accounted for by legal entities where we performed audits of their 
complete financial information. 

The parent company audit was scoped based on the materiality set out above. 

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Materiality 

The scope of our audit was influenced by our application of materiality. We set certain quantitative thresholds for 
materiality. These, together with qualitative considerations, helped us to determine the scope of our audit and the 
nature, timing and extent of our audit procedures on the individual financial statement line items and disclosures 
and in evaluating the effect of misstatements, both individually and in aggregate on the financial statements as a 
whole.  

Based on our professional judgement, we determined materiality for the financial statements as a whole as 
follows: 

Group financial statements 

Parent company financial 
statements 

Overall materiality 

£190,000 (2018: £301,395). 

£180,500 (2018: £121,000). 

How we determined 
it 

1% of revenues. 

Rationale for 
benchmark applied 

The group is in the technology sector 
where revenue is the key measure used by 
the directors, management and users of 
the financial statements in assessing 
business performance.  On this basis, we 
believe revenue is the key benchmark on 
which to base materiality.. 

1% of total assets (capped at £180,500 
based on allocation of Group materiality 
to the component). 

This entity does not trade and has no 
revenue, therefore an appropriate 
benchmark is considered to be 1% of total 
assets, capped at £180,500 based on 
allocation of Group materiality to the 
component.. 

For each component in the scope of our group audit, we allocated a materiality that is less than our overall group 
materiality. The range of materiality allocated across components was between £95,000 and £180,500. 

We agreed with the Audit Committee that we would report to them misstatements identified during our audit 
above £9,500 (Group audit) (2018: £15,000) and £9,500 (Parent company audit) (2018: £6,000) as well as 
misstatements below those amounts that, in our view, warranted reporting for qualitative reasons. 

Conclusions relating to going concern 

ISAs (UK) require us to report to you when:  

 

 

the directors’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements 
is not appropriate; or  

the directors have not disclosed in the financial statements any identified material uncertainties that 
may cast significant doubt about the group’s and parent company’s ability to continue to adopt the going 
concern basis of accounting for a period of at least twelve months from the date when the financial 
statements are authorised for issue. 

We have nothing to report in respect of the above matters. 

However, because not all future events or conditions can be predicted, this statement is not a guarantee as to the 
group’s and parent company’s ability to continue as a going concern. For example, the terms on which the United 
Kingdom may withdraw from the European Union are not clear, and it is difficult to evaluate all of the potential 
implications on the group’s trade, customers, suppliers and the wider economy.   

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Reporting on other information  

The other information comprises all of the information in the Annual Report other than the financial statements 
and our auditors’ report thereon. The directors are responsible for the other information. Our opinion on the 
financial statements does not cover the other information and, accordingly, we do not express an audit opinion 
or, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in this report, any form of assurance thereon.  

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, 
in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our 
knowledge obtained in the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify an apparent 
material inconsistency or material misstatement, we are required to perform procedures to conclude whether 
there is a material misstatement of the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. 
If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other 
information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report based on these responsibilities. 

With respect to the Strategic Report and Directors’ Report, we also considered whether the disclosures required 
by the UK Companies Act 2006 have been included.   

Based on the responsibilities described above and our work undertaken in the course of the audit, ISAs (UK) 
require us also to report certain opinions and matters as described below. 

Strategic Report and Directors’ Report 

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit, the information given in the Strategic 
Report and Directors’ Report for the year ended 31 March 2019 is consistent with the financial statements and 
has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.  

In light of the knowledge and understanding of the group and parent company and their environment obtained in 
the course of the audit, we did not identify any material misstatements in the Strategic Report and Directors’ 
Report.  

Responsibilities for the financial statements and the audit 

Responsibilities of the directors for the financial statements 

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 in accordance with the applicable framework and for 
being satisfied that they give a true and fair view. The directors are also responsible for such internal control as 
they determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material 
misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. 

In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the group’s and the parent 
company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing as applicable, matters related to going concern and 
using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the group or the parent 
company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so. 

Auditors’ responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements 

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from 
material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditors’ report that includes our opinion. 
Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance 
with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or 
error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to 
influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.  

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the FRC’s 
website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditors’ report. 

Use of this report 

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. 

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Other required reporting 

Companies Act 2006 exception reporting 

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 

certain disclosures of directors’ remuneration specified by law are not made; or 

the parent company financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns.  

We have no exceptions to report arising from this responsibility.  

Mark Skedgel (Senior Statutory Auditor) 
for and on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 
Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors 
Birmingham 
5 July 2019 

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Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income For The Year Ended 31 March 2019 

Note 

Year ended 31 
March 2019 

Year ended 31 
March 2018 
Restated* 
£'000 
               29,361  
(15,232) 

£'000 
            19,145  
(8,890) 

REVENUE 
Cost of sales 

Gross profit 

Other income 

Administrative expenses excluding exceptional costs 
Exceptional administrative costs 
Total administrative costs 

OPERATING (LOSS)/PROFIT 

Finance income 
Finance costs 

(LOSS)/PROFIT BEFORE TAXATION 
Income tax 

(LOSS)/PROFIT FOR THE YEAR 

OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME 
Items that may be subsequently reclassified to profit or loss: 
Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations 
TOTAL OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME 

TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE (LOSS)/INCOME FOR THE YEAR 
ATTRIBUTABLE TO OWNERS OF THE PARENT 

ADJUSTED (LOSS)/PROFIT BEFORE TAX 
(Loss)/Profit before taxation  
Exceptional administrative costs 
IFRS2 Share based payments charge 

EARNINGS PER ORDINARY SHARE (PENCE) ATTRIBUTABLE TO 
OWNERS OF THE PARENT 

Basic 

Diluted 

The results relate to continuing operations.  

6 

7 

9 

8 

10 

11 

8 

13 

13 

            10,255  

               14,129  

                  436  

                     566  

(12,101) 
(1,930) 
(14,031) 

(12,681) 
(1,405) 
(14,086) 

(3,340) 

                     609  

                    10  
(233) 

                       33  
(189) 

(3,563) 
              1,057  

                     453  
                     520  

(2,506) 

                     973  

(5) 
(5) 

                         9  
                         9  

(2,511) 

                     982  

(1,452) 
(3,563) 
              1,930  
                  181  

                 2,074  
                     453  
                 1,405  
                     216  

(6.20p) 

(6.20p) 

2.72p 

2.68p 

* See note 31 for details regarding the restatement as a result of changes in accounting policies.  

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity For The Year Ended 31 March 2019 

Note 

Share 
capital 
£'000 

Share 
premium 
£'000 

Merger  
reserve 
£'000 

Translation 
reserve 
£'000 

Treasury 
reserve 
£'000 

Retained 
earnings 
£'000 

Total 
equity 
£'000 

    357  

   11,674  

  1,138  

            199  

(4) 

    6,866  

20,230  

31 

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

(164) 

(164) 

    357  

   11,674  

  1,138  

            199  

(4) 

    6,702  

20,066  

Balance as at 1 April 
2017 as previously 
reported  
Change in accounting 
policy  
Restated balance as at 1 
April 2017 

31 

Comprehensive income 
Profit for the year 
(restated*) 
Other comprehensive income 
Exchange differences on 
translation of overseas 
operations 
Total comprehensive income 

Transactions with owners 
Shares issued 
IFRS2 Share-based 
payments charge 
Tax recognised directly 
in equity (Note 11) 
Transactions with owners 

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

       973  

973  

 -  

                9  

 -  

 -  

      9  

       -   

            -   

         -   

                9  

           -   

       973  

 982  

        2  

           76  

         -   

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

  78  

       216  

   216  

 -  

          38  

        38  

        2  

           76  

         -   

               -   

           -   

       254  

332  

Balance as at 1 April 2018 

    359  

   11,750  

  1,138  

            208  

(4) 

    7,929  

21,380  

Comprehensive loss 
Loss for the year 
Other comprehensive loss 
Exchange differences on 
translation of overseas 
operations 
Total comprehensive loss 

Transactions with owners 
Issue of share capital 
IFRS2 Share based 
payments charge 
Tax recognised directly 
in equity (Note 11) 
Transactions with 
owners 
Balance as at 31 March 2019 

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

(2,506) 

(2,506) 

(5) 

 -  

           -   

(5) 

       -   

            -   

         -   

(5) 

           -   

(2,506) 

(2,511) 

    141  

     2,941  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 3,082  

       181  

       181  

(38) 

(38) 

    141  

     2,941  

         -   

               -   

           -   

       143  

   3,225  

    500  

   14,691  

  1,138  

            203  

(4) 

    5,566  

22,094  

* See note 31 for details regarding the restatement as a result of changes in accounting policies. 

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Consolidated Statement of Financial Position As At 31 March 2019 

Note 

As at 31 March 
2019 

ASSETS 
NON CURRENT ASSETS 
Intangible assets 
Property, plant and equipment 
Amounts receivable under finance leases 

CURRENT ASSETS 
Inventories 
Trade and other receivables 
Corporation tax receivable 
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  
Deferred income tax liability  

NET ASSETS 

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

TOTAL EQUITY ATTRIBUTABLE TO EQUITY HOLDERS OF THE 
PARENT 

14 
15 
17 

16 
17 

19 
20 
21 

19 
20 
21 
18 

22 

As at 31 March 
2018 
Restated* 
£'000 

           19,460  
             1,756  
                318  
           21,534  

             2,556  
             9,926  
             1,001  
             3,472  
           16,955  

£'000 

             21,165  
               1,432  
                  139  
             22,736  

               2,736  
               8,345  
               1,050  
               1,205  
             13,336  

(6,307) 
(1,237) 
(27) 
(7,571) 

(9,598) 
(1,151) 
(47) 
(10,796) 

               5,765  

             6,159  

             28,501  

           27,693  

(607) 
(5,597) 
(115) 
(88) 
(6,407) 

(525) 
(5,621) 
(94) 
(73) 
(6,313) 

             22,094  

           21,380  

                  500  
             14,691  
               1,138  
                  203  
(4) 
               5,566  

                359  
           11,750  
             1,138  
                208  
(4) 
             7,929  

             22,094  

           21,380  

* See note 31 for details regarding the restatement as a result of changes in accounting policies.  

The loss for the Company for the year determined in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 was £242,000 
(2018: loss £153,000) 

The notes on pages 42 to 77 are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements. These financial 
statements on pages 38 to 77 were approved by the Board of directors and authorised for issue on 5 July 2019 
and are signed on its behalf by: 

John Watkins - Director 

Jon Furber - Director 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Consolidated Statement of Cash-Flows For The Year Ended 31 March 2019 

Note 

Year ended 31 
March 2019 

Year ended 31 
March 2018 

NET CASH GENERATED FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES  

24 

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES 
Purchases of property, plant and equipment 
Purchases of software 
Proceeds from sale of property 
Capitalised development costs 

 £'000  
(1,752) 

Restated* 
 £'000  
             4,735  

(103) 
(158) 
                495  
(3,413) 

(91) 
(236) 
                    -   
(3,389) 

NET CASH USED IN INVESTING ACTIVITIES  

(3,179) 

(3,716) 

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES 
Issue of new shares 
Increase in bank loan 
Repayment of bank loans 
Repayment of obligations under hire purchase agreements 
Interest paid 

             3,082  
             2,000  
(2,026) 
(187) 
(205) 

                  78  
             2,600  
(1,880) 
(146) 
(189) 

NET CASH GENERATED FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES 

             2,664  

                463  

NET INCREASE / (DECREASE) IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS 
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT BEGINNING OF YEAR 

(2,267) 
             3,472  

             1,482  
             1,990  

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT END OF YEAR 

             1,205  

             3,472  

* See note 31 for details regarding the restatement as a result of changes in accounting policies.  

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements 

1 

 GENERAL INFORMATION 

Trakm8 Holdings PLC (“Company”) and its subsidiaries (together the “Group”) develop, manufacture, 
distribute and sell telematics devices and services. 

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 4 Roman 
Park, Roman Way, Coleshill, West Midlands, B46 1HG. The Company’s Ordinary shares are traded on the AIM 
market of the London Stock Exchange. The Company is registered in England and is limited by shares. 

The Group’s principal activity is the development, 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. 

The consolidated financial statements are presented in Sterling and all values are rounded to the nearest 
thousand (£'000) except where otherwise indicated. 

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 2019. 

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. 

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Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

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.  

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 when the 
Group is exposed, or has rights, to variable returns from its involvement with the investee and has the ability 
to affect those returns through its power over the investee. 

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. 

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 Statement of Comprehensive Income 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 IFRS 3 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. 

The Company has taken advantage of the exemption provided under section 408 of the Companies Act 2006 
not to publish its individual Statements of Comprehensive Income and related notes. 

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Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

4  ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) 

REVENUE RECOGNITION 

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

The Group has adopted IFRS 15 "Revenue from contracts with Customers" with effect from 1 April 2018. IFRS 
15 establishes a five-step model to accounting for revenue arising from contracts with customers. It requires 
revenue to be recognised when/as control of a good or service transfers to a customer at an amount that 
reflects the consideration to which the Group expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring goods or 
services to a customer.  

The Group enters into sale of multi-element contracts, which contain a combination of separate performance 
obligations which can include hardware, software and different services, including telematics services, 
software maintenance, installation and customisation and configuration contracts. Each performance 
obligation is allocated a transaction price based on the stand-alone selling prices. Where stand-alone prices 
are not directly observable, they are estimated based on expected cost plus margin. 

Revenue on the sale of telematics devices and other hardware is recognised when control transfers to a 
customer, or where bill and hold arrangements exist, when the products are identified separately as 
belonging to the customer and currently ready for physical transfer to the customer.  If the contracts include 
the installation of hardware, revenue for the hardware is recognised at a point in time when the hardware is 
delivered, the legal title passed and the customer has accepted the hardware.  

Revenue for telematics services, being the provision of data and data analytics to customers, is recognised in 
the accounting period in which the services are rendered. The appropriate portion of service revenue invoiced 
in advance covering future periods is shown as deferred income within current and non-current liabilities. 

Revenue for installation services is recognised when the performance obligation per the contract is complete. 

Revenue from the sale of perpetual software license 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 over the life of the development project by reference to percentage 
of completion. Revenue for engineering services is recognised as the services are provided. 

Revenue from software maintenance contracts is based on the allocated transaction price based on the stand-
alone selling prices, recognised over the support term. Where the stand-alone price is not directly observable, 
they are estimated based on expected cost plus margin. 

Revenue from SaaS (software as a service) contracts is based on the allocated transaction price based on the 
stand-alone selling prices, recognised over the contract term. Where the stand-alone price is not directly 
observable, they are estimated based on expected cost plus margin. 

Revenue from customisation/configuration contracts is based on the allocated transaction price based on the 
stand-alone selling prices, recognised as related services are performed. Where the stand-alone price is not 
directly observable, they are estimated based on expected cost plus margin. 

Rental income from operating leases and rental of equipment is recognised on a straight-line basis over the 
term of the lease or rental period. 

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Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

4  ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) 

REVENUE RECOGNITION (CONTINUED) 

Assets sold by the Group where substantially all the risk and rewards of ownership of the assets have been 
transferred to the customer, of which the customer is paying over a number of future periods are classified as 
finance leases. Revenue is recognised at the present value of the minimum lease payments at the inception of 
the lease. Finance lease income is allocated to accounting periods so as to reflect a constant periodic rate of 
return on the Group's net investment outstanding in respect of the leases. 

Invoicing for all revenue streams is undertaken in accordance with the terms of the agreement with the 
customer. Where this is different to revenue recognition either accrued or deferred income is recognised on 
the statement of financial position as appropriate. 

In cases where customers pay for the goods and services over an agreed period, the fair value of the 
consideration is determined by discounting all future receipts using an imputed rate of interest. The 
difference between the fair value and the nominal amount of the consideration is recognised as investment 
income over the payment period. 

GRANT INCOME 

Government grants for revenue expenditure are recognised in the Statement of Comprehensive Income 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. 

OPERATING LEASES - LEASEE  

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. 

OPERATING LEASES - LESSOR 

Leases where the Group retains substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership are classified as operating 
leases.  The lease income from the operating leases 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. See note 9 for 
further details.  

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. 

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Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

4  ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) 

TAXATION (CONTINUED) 

Research and Development tax credits (SME R&D tax relief) are shown as part of the current tax charge for the 
year in the Statement of Comprehensive Income.  

Research and Development Expenditure Credit ('RDEC') in relation to research and development costs not 
claimed under SME R&D tax relief are shown as part of other income in the Statement of Comprehensive 
Income. 

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 on share based payments is recognised in the Statement of Comprehensive Income to the extent 
that the future tax deduction does not exceed the charge in the Statement of Comprehensive Income. 
Deferred tax for the excess is recognised directly in Statement of Changes in Equity. 

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 issues equity-settled share-based payments to certain employees. 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. 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. 

GOODWILL 

Goodwill arising on consolidation is recorded as an intangible asset and is the surplus of the fair value of the 
consideration over the Group’s interest in the fair value of identifiable net assets (including intangible assets) 
acquired.  Goodwill is tested for impairment annually as at 31 March and when circumstances indicate that the 
carrying value may be impaired. Impairment is determined for goodwill by assessing the recoverable amount 
of each CGU (or group of CGUs) to which the goodwill relates. When the recoverable amount of the CGU is less 
than its carrying amount, an impairment loss is recognised. Impairment losses relating to goodwill cannot be 
reversed in future periods.  Any impairment identified as a result of the review is charged in the Statement of 
Comprehensive Income.  

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. 

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Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

4  ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) 

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 nature of intangible assets 
recognised and their estimated useful lives are as follows: 

Software 
Development cost 

20 - 100%  Straight line 
10 - 40%  Straight line 

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 
Customer relationships 

10 - 20%  Straight line 
33 - 50%  Straight line 
20%  Straight line 
33%  Straight line 

The assets’ residual values and useful lives are reviewed at each Statement of Financial Position date and 
adjusted if appropriate.  The carrying values of intangible assets are reviewed for impairment when events or 
changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

4  ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) 

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.  In summary the 
depreciation rates used for each category is as follows: 

Freehold property 
Furniture, fixtures and equipment 
Computer equipment 
Motor vehicles 

2%  Straight line 
5% - 10%  Straight line 
20%  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. 

INVENTORIES 

Inventories are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value. In general cost is determined on weighted 
average cost 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.  The IAS 39 category, Loans and 
Receivables, required assets to be measured at amortised cost and therefore the change in category in the 
adoption of IFRS 9 does not in fact result in a change in measurement of trade receivables.  

The Group recognises an allowance for Expected Credit Losses (ECLs) for trade receivables. IFRS 9 requires an 
impairment provision to be recognised on origination of a trade receivable, based on its ECL.  

The directors have taken the simplification available under IFRS 9.5.5.15 which allows the loss amount in 
relation to a trade receivable to be measured at initial recognition and throughout its life at an amount equal 
to lifetime ECL. This simplification is permitted where there is either no significant financial component (such 
as customer receivables where the customer is expected to repay the balance in full prior to interest accruing) 
or where there is a significant financial component (such as where the customer expects to repay only the 
minimum amount each month), but the directors make an accounting policy choice to adopt the 
simplification.  
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. 

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Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

4  ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) 

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 Statement of Comprehensive Income 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 - LESSEE 

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. 

PROVISIONS 

Provisions are recognised when the Group has a present obligation as a result of past event and it is probable 
that the Group will be required to settle that obligation. Provisions are measured at the Directors' best 
estimate of the net expenditure required to settle the obligation at the year-end date and are discounted to 
present value where the effect is material.  

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Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

4  ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) 

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.  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. 

Retained earnings represent retained profits and the share based payment reserve. 

FOREIGN CURRENCIES 

Sterling is the presentational currency of the Group. The functional currency of the companies within the 
Group is sterling. 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. 

SEGMENTAL REPORTING 

Operating segments are reported in a manner consistent with the internal reporting provided to the chief 
operating decision-maker.  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. 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

4  ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) 

SEGMENTAL REPORTING (CONTINUED) 

The Board have assessed that there continues to be just one segment following the continued integration of 
the Trakm8, DCS, Route Monkey and Roadsense businesses.  This segment has two separate revenue streams 
distinguished by whether the revenues arise from solely hardware sales (Products) or hardware with ongoing 
service fees (Solutions).  With effect from 1 April 2019, the Group ceased the sale of Contract Electronic 
Manufacturing services (Products) and other third party hardware only supply. 

GOING CONCERN  

These financial statements are presented on a going concern basis.  To monitor the future cash position the 
Group produces projections of its working capital and long term funding requirements covering three months 
in detail and 1 and 2 year future projections on a monthly basis.  These projections are updated on a regular 
basis and progress against the projections is closely monitored by the Board and the finance team.   
Projections include assessments against the covenants agreed with our bank.  On 27 June 2019 the Group 
entered into an Amendment and Restatement Agreement with HSBC that amended the covenants on both 
the term loan and revolving credit facility, following the waiver of existing covenants during the year.  The 
recently agreed covenants relate to cashflow cover, EBITDA and leverage.  At the year end the Group had cash 
balances of £1,205,000 and undrawn revolving credit facilities of £650,000 at 31 March 2019.  The projections 
for twelve months from date of signing the financial statements show that the Group has sufficient cash 
resources and will meet its covenants with ample headroom for the foreseeable future.  The Group has 
undertaken a number of adverse sensitivities against its projections, these show that we would still have cash 
reserves in all these scenarios and would meet our covenants.  This sensitivity analysis showed that if either a 
32% reduction in Adjusted EBITDA, or a 50% reduction in net cashflow from operating activities for the full 
financial year materialised that covenants would still be met.  On this basis the Directors have a reasonable 
expectation that the Group will have adequate financial resources to continue in operation for the 
foreseeable future.   

CHANGES IN ACCOUNTING STANDARDS AND DISCLOSURES 

The Group has adopted the following new standards, or new provisions of amended standards:  

Number  
IFRS 2 
IFRS 9 
IFRS 15 
IFRIC 22 
IAS 7  
2014-2016 Cycle  
Other than the standards discussed below, none are expected to have a material impact on the Group. 

Title  
Amendments to Share Based Payments  
Financial Instruments  
Revenue from Contracts with Customers  
Foreign Currency Transactions and Advance Consideration 
Disclosure Initiative  
Annual Improvements to IFRSs  

IFRS 9 Financial Instruments 

IFRS 9 'Financial Instruments' replaces IAS 39 'Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement' for 
annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2018, bringing together all three aspects of the accounting for 
financial instruments: classification and measurement; impairment; and hedge accounting. The Group has 
applied IFRS 9 retrospectively, with the initial application date of 1 April 2018. There are no material 
classification or measurement changes to financial assets or liabilities as a result of the change in standard.  

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Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

4  ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) 

CHANGES IN ACCOUNTING STANDARDS AND DISCLOSURES (CONTINUED) 

IFRS 15 Revenue from contracts with customers 

IFRS 15 and its related amendments supersede IAS11 'Construction Contracts' and IAS 8 'Revenue' and related 
interpretations. It applies to all revenue arising from contracts with its customers and became effective for 
annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2018. IFRS 15 establishes a five-step model to account for 
revenue arising from contracts with customers. It requires revenue to be recognised when/as control of a 
good or service transfers to a customer at an amount that reflects the consideration to which an entity 
expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring goods or services to a customer.  

IFRS 15 requires entities to exercise judgement, taking into consideration all the relevant facts and 
circumstances when applying each step of the model to contracts with their customers. The standard also 
specifies the accounting for the incremental costs of obtaining a contract and the costs directly related to 
fulfilling a contract. In addition, the standard requires enhanced and extensive disclosure about revenue to 
help investors better understand the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows from 
contracts with customers.  

The Group has adopted IFRS 15 using the full retrospective method of adoption and have considered all 
aspects of IFRS 15. Refer to note 31 for the current and prior year impact of adopting IFRS 15 using the full 
retrospective method.  

OUTLOOK FOR ADOPTIONS OF FUTURE STANDARDS (new and amended) 

At the date of authorisation of the consolidated financial information, the following standards and 
interpretations which have not yet been adopted early in these consolidated financial statements were in 
issue but not yet effective (and in some cases had not yet been adopted by the EU):  

Number  
IFRS 16 
IFRIC 23 
IFRS 9 
IAS 28 
IAS 19 
IFRS 3 
IFRS 11 
IAS 12 

Title  
Leases 
Uncertainty over Income Tax Treatments 
Prepayment Features with Negative Compensation 
Long-term Interests in Associates and Joint Ventures 
Plan Amendment, Curtailment or Settlement 
Previously held Interests in a joint operation 
Previously held Interests in a joint operation 
Income tax consequences of payments on financial 
instruments classified as equity 

Effective  
1 January 2019 
1 January 2019 
1 January 2019 
1 January 2019 
1 January 2019 
1 January 2019 
1 January 2019 
1 January 2019 

Borrowing costs eligible for capitalisation 
2015-2017 Cycle  

IAS 23 
Annual Improvements  
Amendments to IFRS 3, ‘Business combinations’, definition of a business 
Amendments to IAS 1 and IAS 8 
Amendments to the Conceptual framework 
Other than the standards discussed below, none are expected to have a material impact on the Group. 

1 January 2019 
Not yet endorsed 
Not yet endorsed 
Not yet endorsed 
Not yet endorsed 

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Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

4  ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) 

CHANGES IN ACCOUNTING STANDARDS AND DISCLOSURES (CONTINUED) 

IFRS 16 Leases  

IFRS 16 was issued in January 2016. It will result in almost all leases being recognised on the balance sheet by 
lessees, as the distinction between operating and finance leases is removed. Under the new standard, an 
asset (the right to use the leased item) and a financial liability to pay rentals are recognised. The only 
exceptions are short-term and low-value leases.  

The Group has reviewed all of the Group’s leasing arrangements over the last year in light of the new lease 
accounting rules in IFRS 16. The standard will affect primarily the accounting for the Group’s operating leases. 

As at the reporting date, the Group has non-cancellable operating lease commitments of £2,430,000, see note 
25. Of these commitments, approximately £26,000 relate to short-term leases and £3,000 to low value leases 
which will both be recognised on a straight-line basis as expense in profit or loss. 

For the remaining lease commitments the group expects to recognise right-of-use assets of approximately 
£2,326,000 on 1 April 2019, lease liabilities of £2,326,000 (after adjustments for prepayments and accrued 
lease payments recognised as at 31 March 2019) and deferred tax assets of £395,000. Overall net assets will 
be approximately £395,000 higher, and net current assets will be £429,000 lower due to the presentation of a 
portion of the liability as a current liability. 

The group expects that net profit after tax will decrease by approximately £23,000 for 2019 as a result of 
adopting the new rules. Adjusted PBT used to measure segment results is expected to increase by 
approximately £429,000, as the operating lease payments were included in PBT, but the amortisation of the 
right-of-use assets and interest on the lease liability are excluded from this measure. 

Operating cash flows will increase and financing cash flows decrease by approximately £399,000 as 
repayment of the principal portion of the lease liabilities will be classified as cash flows from financing 
activities. 

The Group’s activities as a lessor are not material and hence the group does not expect any significant impact 
on the financial statements. However, some additional disclosures will be required from next year. 

The Group will apply the standard from accounting period beginning on 1 April 2019. The Group intends to 
apply the simplified transition approach and will not restate comparative amounts for the year prior to first 
adoption. Right-of-use assets for property leases will be measured on transition as if the new rules had always 
been applied. All other right-of-use assets will be measured at the amount of the lease liability on adoption 
(adjusted for any prepaid or accrued lease expenses). 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

5  CRITICAL JUDGEMENTS AND ESTIMATES 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.  

Based on revenue recognition criteria in note 4 above, the allocation of transaction price to different 
performance obligations was identified as the only part of the criteria that is a significant judgement.  

Management applies judgement on contracts which involve more than one deliverable.  Each deliverable is 
assigned to one or more separate element of revenue and the contract consideration is allocated to each 
element based on its relative fair value.  Determining the fair value of each element can require complex 
estimates due to the nature of goods and services provided.  A fair value is estimated for each element 
based on equivalent sales prices where it is sold on a standalone basis after considering volume discounts 
when applicable. 

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 another key judgement 
made by management in ensuring appropriate revenue recognition. 

Management also assesses 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. 

CAPITALISED DEVELOPMENT COSTS 

At the start of a project, management assesses whether or not the project meets the criteria for 
capitalisation under the requirements of IAS 38. Subsequently, 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 product, service and software capabilities.   

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

5  CRITICAL JUDGEMENTS AND ESTIMATES IN APPLYING THE GROUP’S ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) 

KEY SOURCES OF ESTIMATION UNCERTAINTY 

The key assumptions concerning the future and other key estimations 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 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. Active credit 
control management is undertaken with a credit approval process in place and active monitoring of accounts 
resulting in future supplies being stopped if debts 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.  

The Group recognises an allowance for Expected Credit Losses (ECLs) for trade receivables. IFRS 9 requires an 
impairment provision to be recognised on origination of a trade receivable, based on its ECL.  

The directors have taken the simplification available under IFRS 9.5.5.15 which allows the loss amount in 
relation to a trade receivable to be measured at initial recognition and throughout its life at an amount equal 
to lifetime ECL. This simplification is permitted where there is either no significant financial component (such 
as customer receivables where the customer is expected to repay the balance in full prior to interest 
accruing) or where there is a significant financial component (such as where the customer expects to repay 
only the minimum amount each month), but the directors make an accounting policy choice to adopt the 
simplification. 

IMPAIRMENT OF GOODWILL  

The Group determines whether goodwill is impaired at least on an annual basis. This requires an estimation 
of the value in use of the cash-generating units to which the goodwill is allocated. Estimating the value in use 
requires the Group to make an estimate of the expected future cash flows from the cash generating unit and 
also to choose a suitable discount rate in order to calculate the present value of those cash flows. Further 
details are given in note 14.  

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

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, assets and liabilities are in respect of 
one Integrated Telematics Technology segment.  

The Board as the CODM review the revenue streams of Integrated Fleet, Optimisation, Insurance and 
Automotive Solutions (Solutions) and Hardware as Discrete Devices (Products) as part of their internal 
reporting.  Products is the sale of Contract Electronic Manufacturing services (now ceased) and other third 
party hardware only supply. Solutions represents the sale of the Group’s full vehicle telematics and 
optimisation services, engineering services, professional services and mapping solutions to customers. 

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 
2019 

£'000 
19,145  
 -  
     19, 145  

Year ended 
31 March 
2018 
Restated 
£'000 
26,088  
             3,273  
          29,361  

Year ended 31 March 2019 
Products 

Solutions 

Total 

United Kingdom 
North America  
Norway 
Rest of Europe 
Rest of World 

7  OTHER INCOME 

£'000 
    18,910  
            12  
              4  
         111  
         108  
    19,145  

£'000 
 -  
 -  
 -  
 -  
 -  
 -  

£'000 
  18,910  
12  
    4  
          111  
          108  
    19,145  

Grant income 
R&D tax credit  
R&D tax credit adjustment in respect of prior periods  

Year ended 31 March 2018 
Products 
Restated 
£'000 
       3,068  
 -  
 -  
          197  
             8  
    3,273  

Solutions 
Restated 
£'000 
   25,764  
           56  
           58  
           73  
         137  
   26,088  

Total 
Restated 
£'000 
28,832  
            56  
            58  
          270  
          145  
  29,361  

Year 
ended 31 
March 
2019 
£'000 
449 
5 
(18) 
436 

Year 
ended 31 
March 
2018 
£'000 
         531  
            35  
   -  
566 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

8  OPERATING LOSS/ PROFIT 

The following items have been included in arriving at operating (loss)/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 
(Gain)/Loss on foreign exchange transactions 
Staff costs (note 12) 
(Profit)/Loss on disposal of property, plant & equipment 
Exceptional administrative costs  
Auditors’ 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: 
- Share based payments advisory services  

Year ended 
31 March 
2019 
£'000 

Year ended 
31 March 
2018 
£'000 

                242  
71  
             1,866  

                261  
                  60  
             1,484  

                208  
                183  
                933  
(3) 
             6,533  
(106) 
             1,930  

                159  
                263  
             1,485  
(59) 
             7,936  
                  26  
             1,405  

                  93  

                103  

                    -   

                    8  

Adjusted loss/ profit before tax is monitored by the Board and measured as follows: 

(Loss)/ profit before tax 
Exceptional administrative costs (note 9) 
Share based payments 
Adjusted (loss)/profit before tax 

9  EXCEPTIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS 

Acquisition costs 
Integration & restructuring costs 
Head office relocation  
Contract manufacturing closure costs  
New product component refit costs  
Exceptional communication correction costs  
Iranian bad debt 

Year ended 
31 March 
2019 
£'000 

(3,563) 
             1,930  
                181  
(1,452) 

Year ended 
31 March 
2018 
£'000 
Restated  
                453  
             1,405  
                216  
             2,074  

Year ended 
31 March 
2019 
£'000 
                102  
                707  
 -  
 -  
                453  
                375  
                293  
             1,930  

Year ended 
31 March 
2018 
£'000 
                256  
                501  
                238  
                410  
 -  
 -  
 -  
             1,405  

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

9  EXCEPTIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS (CONTINUED) 

The acquisition costs incurred in 2019 and 2018 relate to non-underlying charges under two separate 
agreements linked to the acquisition in 2017.  The costs incurred are directly linked to the acquisition and 
not as part of the underlying business.  One agreement terminates on 31 July 2019, and the second 
agreement terminated on 31 March 2019. 

The Company has incurred significant costs relating to its ongoing project to streamline and rationalise the 
operations of the business.  This has resulted in the following non-underlying, one-off costs: 
- In the current and prior year, integration and restructuring costs incurred relate to integrating the activities 
of Route Monkey Limited, Roadsense Limited and DCS Systems that were acquired in previous financial years 
and include costs associated with office closures and costs and profits incurred as part of its long-term real 
estate plan. 
- Head Office relocation costs in the prior year are non-underlying costs incurred in moving the Head Office 
and associated administrative functions from Shaftesbury to the West Midlands. 
- Contract manufacturing closure costs in the prior year relate to residual inventory costs and contract exit 
costs following cessation of manufacturing contracts with third parties. 

The Company has also incurred the following exceptional in the current financial year: 
- In the current year product component refit costs incurred relate to significant component and software 
issues that arose during the financial year on a recently launched product.  These issues have been fixed by 
year-end.  However significant re-visit and material costs have been incurred as a result of the project to 
remedy these issues.  No customers have been lost as a result of these issues. 

- In the current year communication correction costs incurred relate to an intermittent fault uncovered with 
one of our communication elements during our joint extended testing.  This resulted in a reduction in signal 
strength as the component searched for the supplier’s network signal, rather than the strongest signal 
available.    This affected two customers.  We upgraded the product with an alternative which now provides 
much enhanced roaming capability across Europe.  The enhanced signal will also enable us to deliver a wider 
range of products.  The customers have subsequently ordered further devices from the Group. 

- In the current year, it was considered inappropriate to proceed with a contract to supply insurance 
solutions into Iran due to the impact of US sanctions, therefore the cost of the work and solutions supplied in 
the previous financial year have been provided for. 

10  FINANCE COSTS 

Interest on bank loans 
Amortisation of debt issue costs  
Interest on Hire Purchase and similar agreements 

Year ended 31 
March 2019 
£'000 
                     172  
                       28  
                       33  
                     233  

Year ended 31 
March 2018 
£'000 
                     147  
                      13  
                       29  
                     189  

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

11 

INCOME TAX 

Tax credit for the year  

Our tax credit for the year is shown below. Tax is made up of current and deferred tax. Current tax is the 
amount payable/(receivable) on the taxable income in the year and any adjustments to the tax 
payable/(receivable) in the previous years. Deferred tax is explained in note 18. 

Current tax 

Deferred tax 

current year credit 
prior year adjustment 
sub total 

current year charge 
prior year adjustment 
sub total 

Year ended 31 
March 2019 

£'000 
(1,034) 
- 
(1,034) 

Year ended 31 
March 2018 
Restated 
£'000 
(972) 
                        10  
(962) 

                     (12)  
(11) 
(23) 

                      630  
(188) 
                      442  

Income tax credit 

Total 

(1,057) 

(520) 

Tax recognised directly in equity 

In addition to the amount credited to the income statement, tax movements recognised in equity were as 
follows: 

Deferred tax:  
Share based payment  
Tax debit/ (credit) in the statement of changes in equity  

Year ended 31 
March 2019 
£'000 

Year ended 31 
March 2018 
£'000 

38 
38 

(38) 
(38) 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

11 

INCOME TAX (CONTINUED) 

Factors affecting the tax charge 

The tax assessed for the year is lower (2018: lower) than the applicable rate of corporation tax in the UK. The 
difference is explained below: 

(Loss)/Profit before tax 

Year ended 31 
March 2019 

£'000 
(3,563) 

Year ended 31 
March 2018 
Restated 
£'000 
                      453  

(Loss)/Profit on ordinary activities multiplied by the standard rate of 
corporation tax in the UK of 19% (2018: 19%) 

(677) 

                        86  

Effects of: 
Expenses not deductible/income not taxable 
R&D relief enhanced deduction 
Opening and closing deferred tax rate adjustment 
Adjustments in respect of prior periods: 

Deferred tax 
Current tax 

Other movements  
Total tax credit 

R&D relief enhanced deduction 

                        42  
(463) 
(5) 

                      162  
(559) 
- 

(12) 
- 
                        58  
(1,057) 

(188) 
                        10  
(31) 
(520) 

This deduction is available on research and development work done by the Group to develop and enhance its 
data analytics functionality and telematics hardware. 

Prior year adjustment 
The prior year adjustment mainly relates to the R&D tax credits that were finalised during the year. 

Finance Act 2016 was substantively enacted on 6 September 2016 and reduced the main rate of corporation 
tax in the UK to 17% with effect from 1 April 2020. 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

12 

EMPLOYEES 

Year ended 
31 March 
2019 
No.  

Year ended 
31 March 
2018 
No.  

The average monthly number of persons (including Directors) employed by the Group was: 
Engineering 
Sales & marketing 
Production 
Administration 

               75  
                90  
                44  
                24  
              233  

                76  
                84  
                59  
                25  
              244  

Staff costs for the employees and Directors (included under Administrative expenses and Cost of sales): 

Wages and Salaries 
Social security costs 
Share based payments 
Other pension costs 

Year ended 
31 March 
2019 
£'000 
           5,438  
              666  
              181  
              248  
           6,533  

Year ended 
31 March 
2018 
£'000 
           6,772  
              639  
              216  
              309  
           7,936  

The compensation for key management personnel was as follows (included under Administrative expenses 
and Cost of sales): 

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

Year ended 
31 March 
2019 
£'000 

Year ended 
31 March 
2018 
£'000 

           1,375  
                35  
              175  
           1,585  

           1,466  
                51  
              175  
           1,692  

The key management personnel are the Directors and four senior managers who became key management 
personnel during the prior year. 
The key management personnel made gains of £88,000 (2018: £62,000) 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 29. 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

13  EARNINGS PER ORDINARY SHARE 

The earnings per Ordinary share have been calculated in accordance with IAS 33 using the profit for the year 
and the weighted average number of Ordinary shares in issue during the year as follows: 

(Loss)/Profit for the year after taxation 
Exceptional administrative costs 
Share based payments 
Tax effect of adjustments 
Adjusted (loss)/profit for the year after taxation 

Number of Ordinary shares of 1p each at 31 March 

Basic weighted average number of Ordinary shares of 1p each  
Diluted weighted average number of Ordinary shares of 1p each 

Basic (loss)/earnings per share 
Diluted (loss)/earnings per share 

Adjust for effects of: 
Exceptional costs 
Share based payments 

Adjusted basic (loss)/earnings per share 
Adjusted diluted (loss)/earnings per share 

Year ended 31 
March 2019 

£'000 
(2,506) 
                     1,930  
                         181  
(367) 
(762) 

Year ended 31 
March 2018 
Restated 
£'000 
                         973  
                     1,405  
                         216  
(267) 
                     2,327  

No. 
50,004,002 

40,397,188 
40,397,188 

              No. 
35,898,254 

35,740,877 
36,297,287 

(6.20p) 
(6.20p) 

3.87p 
0.45p 

(1.89p) 
(1.89p) 

2.72p 
2.68p 

3.18p 
0.60p 

6.51p 
6.41p 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

14 

INTANGIBLE ASSETS 

COST 
As at 1 April 2017 
Additions - Internal 
developments 
Additions - External 
purchases  
As at 31 March 2018 
Additions - Internal 
developments  
Additions - External 
purchases  
As at 31 March 2019 

AMORTISATION 
As at 1 April 2017 
Charge for year 
Amortisation on disposals 
As at 31 March 2018 
Charge for year 
Amortisation on disposals 
As at 31 March 2019 

NET BOOK AMOUNT 
As at 31 March 2019 

Goodwill 

£'000 

Intellectual 
property 
£'000 

Customer 
relationships 
£'000 

Development 
costs 
£'000 

Software 

£'000 

Total 

£'000 

       10,417  

          1,920  

             100  

            7,234  

          1,426  

       21,097  

                -   

                -   

                -   

            2,707  

             117  

          2,824  

                -   
       10,417  

                -   
          1,920  

                -   
             100  

               680  
          10,621  

             332  
          1,875  

          1,012  
       24,933  

                -   

                -   

                -   

            2,844  

             144  

          2,988  

                -   
       10,417  

                -   
          1,920  

                -   
             100  

               569  
          14,034  

               14  
          2,033  

             583  
       28,504  

                -              1,671  
             117  
                -   
                -   
                -   
                -              1,788  
               61  
                -   
                -   
                -   
                -              1,849  

               22  
               34  
                -   
               56  
               33  
                -   
               89  

            1,978  
            1,123  
                   -   
            3,101  
            1,531  
                   -   
            4,632  

             318  
             210  
                -   
             528  
             241  
                -   
             769  

          3,989  
          1,484  
                -   
          5,473  
          1,866  
                -   
          7,339  

       10,417  

               71  

               11  

            9,402  

          1,264  

       21,165  

As at 31 March 2018 

       10,417  

             132  

               44  

            7,520  

          1,347  

       19,460  

As at 1 April 2017 

       10,417  

             249  

               78  

            5,256  

          1,108  

       17,108  

Goodwill arose in relation to the Group’s acquisition of 100% of the share capital of Roadsense Technology 
Limited (Roadsense), Route Monkey Limited (Route Monkey), Box Telematics Limited (Box) and DCS Systems 
Limited (DCS). 

Since the acquisition Roadsense, Box, Route Monkey and DCS have been incorporated into the Trakm8 business. 
These businesses have therefore been assessed as one cash generating unit for an impairment test on Goodwill. 
The impairment review has been performed using a value in use calculation. 

The impairment review has been based on the Group’s budgets for 2019/20 which have been reviewed and 
approved by the Board.  Forecasts for the subsequent 4 years have been produced based on 7% (a prudent 
growth rate for telematics market) growth rates in revenue and EBITDA in each year.  A net present value has 
been calculated using a pre-tax discount rate of 10% (Group's weighted average cost of capital) which is deemed 
to be a reasonable rate taking account of the Group’s cost of funds and an extra element for risk.  A terminal 
value has been calculated and included in the discounted cash flow forecasts used within the model to fully 
support the goodwill value. A growth rate of 2% was used to determine the terminal value. In addition a 
sensitivity analysis has been undertaken and indicates that an impairment will be triggered by making the 
following combined changes to the assumptions: 
1.     Decrease in annual growth rates to 6.5% per annum for five years (terminal growth rate of 2%) 
2.     Increase in the discount rate to 11% 
3.     Decrease in 2020 free cash flow of 50%  

Amortisation expenses of £1,866,000 (2018: £1,484,000) have been charged to Administrative expenses in the 
Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income.   

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

15  PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT 

Freehold 
property 
£'000 

Furniture, 
fixtures and 
equipment 
£'000 

Computer 
equipment 
£'000 

Motor 
vehicles 
£'000 

                508  
                    -   
                    -   
                    -   
                508  
                  59  
(420) 
                147  

            1,600  
                  78  
                    2  
(278) 
            1,402  
                229  
(58) 
            1,573  

                730  
                168  
                    1  
(218) 
                681  
                  90  
                    -   
                771  

                    7  
                    -   
                    -   
                    -   
                    7  
                    -   
                    -   
                    7  

                  49  
                    4  
                    -   
                    -   
                  53  
                    8  
(56) 
                    5  

                488  
                170  
                    2  
(262) 
                398  
                176  
(33) 
                541  

                446  
                147  
(1) 
(208) 
                384  
                129  
                    -   
                513  

                    7  
                    -   
                    -   
                    -   
                    7  
                    -   
                    -   
                    7  

Total 
£'000 

             2,845  
                246  
                     3  
(496) 
             2,598  
                378  
(478) 
             2,498  

                990  
                321  
                     1  
(470) 
                842  
                313  
(89) 
             1,066  

                142  

            1,032  

                258  

                    -   

             1,432  

COST 
As at 1 April 2017 
Additions 
Exchange differences 
Disposals 
As at 31 March 2018 
Additions 
Disposals 
As at 31 March 2019 

DEPRECIATION 
As at 1 April 2017 
Charge for year 
Exchange differences 
Disposals 
As at 31 March 2018 
Charge for year 
Disposals 
As at 31 March 2019 

NET BOOK AMOUNT 
As at 31 March 2019 

As at 31 March 2018 

                455  

            1,004  

                297  

                    -   

             1,756  

As at 1 April 2017 

                459  

            1,112  

                284  

                    -   

             1,855  

Included within freehold property is £85,000 (2018: £285,000) 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 £564,000 (2018: £320,000) included within Property, Plant and 
Equipment. This consists of Furniture, fixtures and equipment £382,000 (2018: £134,000) and computer 
equipment £182,000 (2018: £186,000). 
Total depreciation expenses of £313,000 (2018: £321,000) 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 2019 
£'000 
            1,158  
                212  
            1,366  
            2,736  

As at 31 
March 2018 
£'000 
                431  
                566  
            1,559  
            2,556  

The cost of inventories recognised as an expense and included in cost of sales amounted to £3,657,000 
(2018: £8,253,000).  During the year old inventory lines totalling £127,000 (2018: £306,000) were written 
down and charged to cost of sales in the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive. Residual inventory costs 
following cessation of Contract Electronic Manufacturing contracts with third-parties totalling £nil (2018: 
£60,000) were written down and charged to exceptional administrative costs (note 9) in the Consolidated 
Statement of Comprehensive Income.  

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

17 

TRADE AND OTHER RECEIVABLES 

Trade receivables 
Other receivables 
Amounts receivable under finance 
leases 
Prepayments 
Assets recognised for goods and 
services delivered but not billed 
(contract asset) 

Non-current assets 
As at 31 
March 2019 

As at 31 
March 2018 
Restated 
£'000 
 -  
 -  

£'000 
 -  
 -  

Current assets 

As at 31 
March 2019 

£'000 
             4,488  
                253  

As at 31 
March 2018 
Restated 
£'000 
               5,730  
                    97  

                139  

                  318  

               179  

                  174  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

                412  

                  367  

             3,013  

             3,558  

                139  

                  318  

            8,345  

               9,926  

The analysis of trade receivables by currency is as follows: 

Pound Sterling 
Dollar 
Euro 
Other  

As at 31 
March 2019 
£'000 
             4,374  
 -  
                  28  
                  86  
            4,488  

As at 31 
March 2018 
£'000 
               5,700  
                       2  
                    28  
 -  
               5,730  

An allowance is made for Expected Credit Losses (ECLs) for trade receivables. IFRS 9 requires an 
impairment provision to be recognised on origination of a trade receivable, based on its ECL. The 
allowance that has been made for ECL for trade receivables is £720,000 (2018: £505,000). In addition a 
credit note provision of £nil (2018: £220,000) has been made against revenue for a specific contract. 

As at 31 March 2019 trade receivables of £1,346,000 (2018: £1,141,000) 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 2019 
£'000 
                832  
              514  
1,346 

As at 31 
March 2018 
£'000 
                  975  
                166  
1,141 

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. 
The analysis of amounts receivable under finance leases is as follows: 

Within one year 
After one and within two years 
After two and within five years 

Minimum lease payments 
2018 
£'000 
                185  
                184  
                142  
511  

2019 
£'000 
               185  
               142  
                   -   
327  

Present value of 
minimum lease 
payments 
2019 
£'000 
               179  
               139  
                   -   
318  

2018 
£'000 
    174  
     179  
     139  
     492  

The interest rate inherent in the leases is fixed at the contract date for the entire lease term. The average 
effective interest contract is approximately 2.45% (2018: 2.45%) per annum. 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

18  DEFERRED TAX 

The analysis of deferred tax liability is as 
follows: 

Deferred tax liability 
Deferred tax liability to be released within 12 months 
Deferred tax liability to be released after more than 12 months 

 The deferred tax liability consists of the following: 

Trading losses 
Short term timing differences 
Accelerated tax depreciation 

As at 31 
March 2019 

£'000 
(47) 
(41) 
(88) 

As at 31 
March 2018 
Restated 
£'000 
(39) 
(34) 
(73) 

As at 31 
March 2019 

£'000 
          1,525  
(56) 
(1,557) 
(88) 

As at 31 
March 2018 
Restated 
£'000 
          1,169  
                  3  
(1,245) 
(73) 

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 2018 (restated) 
Credited / (debited) to the Statement of 
Comprehensive Income 
Credited / (debited) to the Statement of 
Changes in Equity  
At 31 March 2019 

Trading 
losses 
£'000 
1,169  

Accelerated 
tax 
depreciation 
£'000 
(1,245) 

Short term 
timing 
differences 
£'000 
                  3  

             356 

(312) 

-   

-   

            1,525  

(1,557) 

(21) 

(38) 

(56) 

TOTAL 
£'000 
(73) 

23  

(38) 

(88) 

Company Number 05452547 

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Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

19  TRADE AND OTHER PAYABLES  

Non-current liabilities 

Trade payables 
Social security and other taxes 
Other payables 
Accruals 
Payments received in advance of service delivery 
(contract liability) 

£'000 

As at 31 
March 2019 

As at 31 
March 2018 
Restated  
£'000 
                  -                      -   
                  -                      -   
                  -                      -   
                 -   
                 -   

Current liabilities 
As at 31 
March 2019 

As at 31 
March 2018 
Restated  
£'000 
         4,741  
         1,886  
            139  
         1,122  

£'000 
         3,003  
            953  
            144  
            965  

607  

 607  

525  

  525  

1,242  

6,307  

1,710  

9,598  

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

Revenue recognised in the current reporting period relating to carried-forward contract liabilities was £2.9m 
(2018: £3.2m). 

20 

BORROWINGS 

As at 31 March 2019 

As at 31 March 2018 

Bank loan 

Arrangement 
fee 
£'000 

Gross 
£'000 

Net 
£'000 

Obligations 
under 
finance 
leases 

£'000 

Bank loan 

Total 
£'000 

Gross 
£'000 

Arrangement 
fee 
£'000 

Net 
£'000 

Obligations 
under 
finance 
leases 

Total 
£'000  £'000 

Current  1,028  
Non-
Current 

5,229  

(28) 

1,000  

   237   1,237  

1,004  

(28) 

976 

           175   1,151  

(21) 

5,208               389   5,597  

5,307  

(49) 

5,258 

           363   5,621  

6,257  

(49) 

6,208               626   6,834  

6,311  

(77) 

6,234 

            538   6,772  

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

Bank loans comprise  the following:  
A £5.0m term loan with HSBC.  The 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. As at 31 March 2019 the Group owed £1.9m (2018: £2.9m). 
A £5.0m revolving credit facility with HSBC which is repayable in full on 31 December 2020.  The loan bears an 
interest rate of 1.75% over LIBOR on the drawn amount and a fee of 0.75% on the undrawn facility.  As at 31 
March 2019 the Group had drawn down £4.4m of this credit facility (2018: £3.4m). 
The interest rate increased to 4.5% on both facilities from 27 June 2019. 
The Group’s obligations under finance leases are secured by the lessors’ title to the leased assets (see note 
15).   
Total borrowings as at 31 March 2019 were £6.8m and at 31 March 2018 were £6.8m. The movement in total 
borrowings between these dates relate to changes arising from cash flows and non-cash changes ,being, 
increases in borrowings due to new finance leases of £0.3m, additional draw-downs under the revolving credit 
facility of £2.0m which were offset by loan repayments of £2m, repayments of finance leases of £0.2m and 
the release of the arrangement fee of £0.04m. 

Company Number 05452547 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

21 

PROVISIONS 

As at 1 April 2017 
Arising during the year 
Released during the year  
As at 1 April 2018 (restated) 
Arising during the year 
Utilised during the year  
At 31 March 2019 

Dilapidation  

Warranty 

£'000 
                 35  
                 21  
                   -   
                 56  
                 21  
                   -   
                 77  

£'000 
106 
                   -   
(41) 
                 65  
                   -   
                   -   
                 65  

Onerous 
Lease 
£'000 
                   -   
                 20  
                   -   
                 20  
                   -   
(20) 
                   -   

Total  

£'000 
               141  
                 41  
(41) 
               141  
                 21  
(20) 
               142  

In the current year, the Group included dilapidation provision in note 21 resulting in the prior year provision 
amounts being restated.  The dilapidation provision relates to repair obligations that the Group has under its 
leased property.  The liability under these repair obligations would be realised at the end of the lease in 2026. 
The warranty provision relates to the potential warranty claims that may come to fruition in the near future.  
The onerous lease provision relates to the Livingstone site that Route Monkey Limited leased before moving out 
prior to expiry of the lease agreement. The company continued paying rentals until 31 September 2018 when the 
lease expired.   

These provisions are expected to be utilised as follows: 

Current 
Non-Current 

22 

SHARE CAPITAL 

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 2019 

£'000 
                 27  
               115  
               142  

As at 31 
March 2018 
Restated 
£'000 
                 47  
                 94  
              141  

As at 31 March 2019 

As at 31 March 2018 

No’s  
‘000’s 
200,000 

£'000 

200,000 

No’s 
 ‘000’s 
200,000 

£'000 

200,000 

         50,004  

               500  

         35,898  

              359  

As at 31 
March 2019 
£'000 
               359  
               141  
               500  

As at 31 
March 2018 
£'000 
              357  
                   2  
              359  

The Company currently holds 29,000 Ordinary shares in treasury representing 0.06% (2018: 0.08%) of the 
Company’s issued share capital.  The number of 1 pence Ordinary shares that the Company has in issue less the 
total number of Treasury shares is 49,975,002. 
During the year the following shares were issued: 
Date 

Description 

Shares 

Premium 

Share 
Capital 

04/08/2018 

06/12/2018 

Exercise of options over Ordinary Shares by an 
employee 
Subscription of Ordinary Shares  

No's  
'000's 

£'000 

£'000 

               175  

                   2  

                 49  

         13,931  
         14,106  

               139  
               141  

           2,892  
           2,941  

The weighted average price for share options exercised during the year was 29.1p. 

Company Number 05452547 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

23  SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS 

Trakm8 Holdings PLC has issued options (under the Trakm8 2017 Unapproved Share Option Plan) to 
subscribe for Ordinary shares of 1p in the Company. The purpose of the Option Scheme is to retain and 
motivate eligible employees.  

In the prior year, Trakm8 Holding PLC issued options (under the Trakm8 2017 Unapproved Share Option 
Plan) to subscribe for ordinary shares of 1p in the Company.  

The exercise price of all share options is the closing market price on the day of grant, except the options 
issued on the 5 March 2019 which have an exercise at a 20% premium to the mid-market closing share price 
on 4 March 2019.  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 
maximum term of options granted is 10 years from grant date. All share options are equity settled.  

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 three 
tranches of options were awarded, tranche Y, Z and AA. 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 (%) 

Tranch Y 
03-Jul-18 
      47.00  

Tranch Z 
11-Feb-19 
         22.00  

Tranch AA 
05-Mar-19 
           19.00  

Tranch RP 
05-Mar-19 
           19.00  

Tranch AB 
29-Mar-19 
           15.00  

      90.00  

         30.50  

           33.50  

           33.50  

           23.00  

61.1% 
          5.0  
0.0% 
1.0% 

95.7% 
              5.0  
0.0% 
0.8% 

95.7% 
               5.0  
0.0% 
0.8% 

95.7% 
               5.0  
0.0% 
0.8% 

95.7% 
               5.0  
0.0% 
0.8% 

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 

03 July 2018 
11 February 2019 
05 March 2019 
05 March 2019 
29 March 2019 

No of shares  Option Exercise 
Price 
                   90p  
                   31p  
                   34p  
                   34p  
                   23p  

        450,000  
        125,000  
        425,000  
    2,050,000  
        250,000  

Date of expiry 

30/06/2028 
08/02/2029 
02/03/2029 
02/03/2029 
26/03/2029 

A reconciliation of option movements over the year to 31 March 2019 is shown below; 

Outstanding at beginning of the year 
Granted during the period 
Forfeited during the period 
Exercised during the period 
Outstanding at the end of the year 

As at 31 March 2019 

As at 31 March 2018 

Share 
options 

No 
  3,531,812  
  3,300,000  
(2,706,812) 
(175,000) 
  3,950,000  

Weighted 
average 
Exercise 
Price (p) 
               117  
                  40  
               144  
                  29  
                  38  

Share 
options 

No 
      2,871,226  
      1,225,000  
(389,414) 
(175,000) 
      3,531,812  

Weighted 
average 
Exercise 
Price (p) 
                 130  
                 114  
                 239  
                   45  
                 117  

Company Number 05452547 

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Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

23  SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS (CONTINUED) 

The range of exercise prices of the outstanding options is 20.0 pence to 33.5 pence (2018: 17 pence to 333 
pence) and the weighted average remaining contractual life is 7.4 years (2018: 7.6 years).  
The Group charged £181,000 to the Statement of Comprehensive Income in respect of Share-Based 
Payments for the financial year ended 31 March 2019 (2018: £249,000).   

Share options exercisable at 31 March 2019 were 900,000 (2018: 1,425,000). 

Reissued options  

The following directors and PDMRs have had certain existing options cancelled and the following reissued 
options granted, such that number of options cancelled equal the number of reissued options:  

Directors 
John Watkins 
Jon Furber 
Mark Watkins 
Bill Duffy 
Matt Cowley 
Tim Cowley 
Sean Morris 
Matt Monnington (PDMR) 
*Issued at a 20% premium to the mid-market closing share price on 4 March 2019 

Position 
Executive Chairman 
Group Finance Director 
Chief Operating Officer 
Non-Executive Director 
Big Data Director 
Strategy Director 
MD - Insurance and Automotive 
Chief Technology Officer 

No of shares  
300,000 
475,000 
250,000 
75,000 
25,000 
50,000 
350,000 
200,000 

Exercise 
price* 

33.5p 
33.5p 
33.5p 
33.5p 
33.5p 
33.5p 
33.5p 
33.5p 

Vesting conditions: The reissued options vest on 5 March 2022 and require that the recipients remain in 
employment with the Group at the date of exercise. All of the above reissued options may only be exercised 
if the mid-market share price is 50 pence or more at the time of exercise. 

Employee options  

In addition to the directors' options described above, 325,000 existing options have been cancelled and the 
same number of options have been reissued to certain other employees of the Group on the same terms as 
the reissued options to the directors and PDMRs. 

In addition to the New Options and Reissued Options noted above, there are 1,605,000 existing options 
outstanding to certain directors, PDMRs and other employees of the Company. As detailed in the table 
below, the existing options together with the Reissued Options and New Options, would, if fully exercised, 
result in the issue of an additional 4,080,000 Ordinary Shares of 1 pence each in the Company, representing 
8.2 per cent. of the current issued share capital of 50,004,002 Ordinary Shares (of which 29,000 shares are 
held in treasury) as at 5 March 2019. 

Company Number 05452547 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

24  NET CASH GENERATED FROM OPERATIONS 

(Loss)/Profit before tax 
Depreciation 
(Profit)/Loss on disposal of fixed assets 
Net bank and other interest 
Amortisation of intangible assets 
Share based payments 
Operating cash flows before movement in working capital 
Movement in inventories 
Movement in trade and other receivables 
Movement in trade and other payables 
Movement in provisions 
Cash generated from operations 
Interest received 
Income taxes received 
Net cash (outflow)/inflow from operating activities 

25  FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS 

As at 31 
March 2019 

£'000 

As at 31 
March 2018 
Restated 
£'000 

(3,563) 
                313  
(106) 
                223  
             1,866  
                181  
(1,086) 
(180) 
             1,732  
(3,214) 
                     1  
(2,747) 
                  10  
                985  
(1,752) 

                 453  
                 321  
                   26  
                 156  
              1,484  
                 216  
              2,656  
              1,118  
(4,614) 
              3,957  
(21) 
              3,096  
                   33  
              1,606  
              4,735  

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: 
As at 31 
March 2019 
£'000 

As at 31 
March 2018 
£'000 

Operating Leases 
Land and buildings: 
Within one year 
In the second to fifth years inclusive 
Over 5 years 

Other: 
Within one year 

In the second to fifth years inclusive 

                282  
             1,085  
                867  
             2,234  

                 147  
                 480  
                 232  
                 859  

                124  

                 189  

72  
                196  

                 131  

                 320  

Land and buildings under operating leases represents four leases payable by the Group which have expiry 
dates from 2023 to 2029. 

26  RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS 

A total of 2,500,000 (2018: 925,000) share options were granted during the year to ten (2018: seven) key 
management personnel. 

Company Number 05452547 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

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.   

Interest rate risk 
The Group's borrowings are linked to LIBOR and the base rate, the following table details the Group's 
sensitivity to an increase of 2% and 5% in these two rates. 

LIBOR 
Base rate 

LIBOR 
Base rate 

2% 

As at 31 
March 2019 

Profit 
£'000 
(87) 
(38) 

5% 

Profit 
£'000 
(218) 
(95) 

As at 31 
March 
2018 
Profit 
£'000 
(68) 
(57) 

Profit 
£'000 
(170) 
(142) 

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, or otherwise match inflows and outflows in its principal 
trading currencies. 

The following table details the Group’s sensitivity to a 10% and a 20% decrease and increase 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. 

10% decrease 

10 % increase 

Year ended 
31 March 
2019 

Year ended 
31 March 
2018 

Year ended 
31 March 
2019 

US Dollar  
Euro 

US Dollar  
Euro 

Profit & 
equity 
£'000 
(109) 
(78) 

20% decrease 

Profit & 
equity 
£'000 
(245) 
(175) 

Profit & 
equity 
£'000 
(340) 
(191) 

Profit & 
equity 
£'000 
(765) 
(429) 

Company Number 05452547 

Year 
ended 31 
March 
2018 
Profit & 
equity 
£'000 
278 
156 

Profit & 
equity 
£'000 
89 
64 

20 % increase 
Profit & 
equity 
£'000 
164 
117 

Profit & 
equity 
£'000 
510 
286 

72 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

27  FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS (CONTINUED) 

The Group has the following exposure to foreign currency denominated monetary assets and monetary 
liabilities in the Balance Sheet, translated into the sterling at the relevant year-end exchange rates: 

Financial assets / liabilities 

US Dollar  
Euro 

Sterling 
Total 

Credit risk 

Year ended 
31 March 
2019 

Year ended 
31 March 
2019 

Year ended 
31 March 
2018 

Year ended 
31 March 
2018 

Monetary 
Assets 
£'000 
3  
28  
31  
           9,107  
           9,138  

Monetary 
Liabilities 
£'000 
200  
339  
539  
         16,022  
         16,561  

Monetary 
Assets 
£'000 
2  
28  
30  
         13,001  
         13,031  

Monetary 
Liabilities 
£'000 
              120  
      696  
   816  
         12,500  
         13,316  

The Group’s principal financial assets are bank balances, 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 cash balances that are neither past due nor impaired can be ascertained with reference 
to the banks external credit ratings.  All remaining financial assets are unrated. 

Credit rating (Fitch) 

AA- 

Financial instruments by category 

As at 31 
March 
2019 
 £'000  
           1,205  
           1,205  

As at 31 
March 
2018 
£'000 
           3,472  
           3,472  

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. The 
directors do not consider that any of the cash balances are impaired. 

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Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

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. 
The group's external borrowings are subject to covenants which are assessed periodically throughout the 
year. The covenants relate to cash flow and leverage requirements. The covenants were reset during the 
current year and the company complied with all imposed covenant requirements during the period. The 
Group expects to meet the covenant requirements in the future periods.  
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 
“capital and reserves” as shown in the Consolidated Statement of Financial Position plus total borrowings. 
The Group’s strategy has been to maintain gearing.  This has been successfully achieved through the capital 
issue and profitable trading in prior financial year. 

Total borrowings (note 20) 
Total capital and reserves 

Total capital 
Gearing ratio 

As at 31 
March 2019 
£'000 
           6,834  
         22,094  

As at 31 
March 2018 
£'000 
           6,772  
         21,380  

         28,928 
24% 

         28,152  
24% 

At the year end the Group had total net borrowings of £5,629,000 (2018: £3,300,000 ). 

Assets as per Statement of Financial Position  

Trade and other receivables excluding prepayments 
Cash and cash equivalents 

Borrowings 
Trade and other payables excluding statutory liabilities and deferred revenue 

Receivables and Cash  

As at 31 
March 2019 
£'000 
           7,933  
           1,205  
           9,138  

As at 31 
March 2018 
£'000 
           9,559  
           3,472  
         13,031  

Financial liabilities at 
amortised cost 

As at 31 
March 2019 
£'000 
           6,834  
           3,811  
         10,645  

As at 31 
March 2018 
£'000 
           6,772  
           6,544  
         13,316  

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Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

27  FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS (CONTINUED) 

Payable as follows 

On demand or within one year  
After one and within two years 
After two and within five years 

Cash and cash equivalents 

As at 31 
March 2019 
£'000 
 5,048  
1,035  
4,562  
          10,645  

As at 31 
March 2018 
£'000 
        7,695  
             1,272  
             4,349  
           13,316  

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

28  BUSINESS COMBINATIONS 

Roadsense Technology Limited 

In 2017 financial year, the Group purchased 100% of the share capital of Roadsense Technology Limited. The 
acquisition costs incurred in 2019 of £102,000 (2018: £256,000) relate to non-underlying charges under two 
separate agreements linked to the acquisition in the prior year.  The costs incurred are directly linked to the 
acquisition and not as part of the ongoing underlying business.  One agreement terminates on 31 July 2019, 
and the second agreement terminated on 31 March 2019.  

These costs have been recognised as an exceptional administrative expense in the consolidated statement of 
comprehensive income. Exceptional administrative expenses have been analysed in Note 9.  

29  DIVIDENDS 

The Company is not proposing a final dividend for the year (2018: nil).  
No Dividend was paid during the year (2018: nil). 

30  OPERATING LEASES 

The group rents out equipment under operating leases. Equipment rental income earned during the year 
was £175,000 (2018: £219,000). At the year end the group had contracted with lessees of the group for the 
following future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases. 

Within 1 year 
After one and within five years 

As at 31 
March 2019 
£'000 
                 104  
                   43  
                 147  

As at 31 
March 2018 
£'000 
                175  
                149  
                324  

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Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

31  CHANGES IN ACCOUNTING POLICIES  

This note explains the impact of the adoption of IFRS15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers on the 
group's financial statements and also discloses the new accounting policies that have been applied from 1 
April 2018, where they are different to those in prior period. 

Impact on the financial statements: 

As a result of the changes in the entity's accounting policies, prior year financial statements had to be 
restated. As explained in note 4 above, IFRS 15 was adopted with restated comparative information.  

The following table shows the adjustments recognised for each of the individual line item. Line items that 
were not affected by the changes have not been included. As a result, the sub-totals and the totals disclosed 
cannot be recalculated from the numbers provided. The adjustments are explained in more detail below. 

The group has adopted IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers from 1 April 2018 which resulted in 
changes in accounting policies and adjustments to the amounts recognised in the financial statements. In 
accordance with the transition provision in IFRS 15, the group has adopted the new rules retrospectively and 
has restated comparatives for the 2017 financial year. In summary, the following adjustments were made to 
the amounts recognised in the balance sheet at the date of initial application (1 April 2018): 

The benefit to the results for the twelve months to 31 March 2019 from the prior year restatement following 
the adoption of IFRS 15 is not material. 

Consolidated Statement of Financial Position (extract) 

Non-current assets/(liabilities) 
Deferred income tax asset/(liability)  

Current assets  
Trade and other receivables 

Current assets less current liabilities  
Total assets less current liabilities  
Net assets  

Equity 

Balance as at 1 April 2017 
Balance as at 1 April 2018 
Profit for the period ended 31 March 2018 

Year to 
31 March 
2018 
Presented  
£'000 

Year to 
31 March 
2018 
Restated* 
£'000 

IFRS 15  
£'000 

(229) 

156 

(73) 

10,844 

7,077 
28,611 
22,142 

6,866 
8,691 
1,571 

(918) 

(918) 
(918) 
(762) 

(164) 
(762) 
(598) 

9,926 

6,159 
27,693 
21,380 

6,702 
7,929 
973 

Total equity attributable to equity holders of the Parent  

22,142 

(762) 

21,380 

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Notes To The Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued) 

31  CHANGES IN ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) 

Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income  (extract) 

Revenue  

Gross profit  

Operating profit  

Profit before taxation 

Income tax 

Profit for the year  

Year to 
31 March 
2018 
Presented  
£'000 

Year to 
31 March 
2018 
IFRS 15   Restated* 
£'000 

£'000 

30,081 

(720) 

29,361 

14,849 

(720) 

14,129 

1,329 

(720) 

1,173 

(720) 

398 

122 

1,571 

(598) 

609 

453 

520 

973 

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

1,580 

(598) 

982 

Adjusted profit before tax 

2,794 

(720) 

2,074 

32  POST BALANCE SHEET EVENTS 

As explained in note 4 page 51, on the 27 June 2019 the Group entered into an Amendment and 
Restatement Agreement with HSBC that amended the covenants and amended the margin on both the term 
loan and revolving credit facility to 4.5% above base rate and LIBOR respectively.  All other terms of the 
facilities remained unchanged. 

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Parent Company Statement of Financial Position As At 31 March 2019  

ASSETS 
NON CURRENT ASSETS 
Investments 
Deferred tax asset  

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 

CAPITAL AND RESERVES 
Called up share capital  
Share premium account 
Merger reserve 
Treasury reserve 
Retained earnings 

Note 

As at 31 March 
2019 
£'000 

As at 31 March 
2018 
£'000 

4 

5 

6 
7 

7 

8 

                  11,061  
                          74  
                  11,135  

                  10,880  
                          34  
                  10,914  

                  10,943  
                        532  
                  11,475  

                    8,692  
                          67  
                    8,759  

(176) 
(1,000) 
(1,176) 

(234) 
(976) 
(1,210) 

                  10,299  

                    7,549  

                  21,434  

                  18,463  

(5,208) 

(5,258) 

                  16,226  

                  13,205  

                        500  
                  14,691  
                        627  
(4) 
                        412  

                        359  
                  11,750  
                        627  
(4) 
                        473  

TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS’ FUNDS  

                  16,226  

                  13,205  

The parent company has taken the exemption conferred by s.408 Companies Act 2006 not to publish the 
statement of Comprehensive Income of the parent company with these accounts. The loss dealt with for the year 
in the parent company's financial statements was £242,000 (2018: loss £153,000). 

These financial statements on pages 78 to 86 were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on 
5 July 2019 and are signed on their behalf by: 

John Watkins - Director 

Jon Furber - Director 

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Parent Company Statement of Changes in Equity For The Year Ended 31 March 2019  

Called up 
share 
capital 
£'000 
          357  
               2  

Share 
premium 
account 
£'000 
     11,674  
             76  

Merger 
reserve 

Treasury 
reserve 

Retained 
earnings 

£'000 
             627  
 -  

£'000 
(4) 
 -  

£'000 
           410  
 -  

TOTAL 
SHAREHOLDERS' 
FUNDS 
£'000 
               13,064  
                       78  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

           216  

                    216  

 -  
          359  

 -  
     11,750  

 -  
             627  

 -  
(4) 

(153) 
           473  

(153) 
               13,205  

          141  

        2,941  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

 -  

                 3,082  

 -  

           181  

                    181  

 -  

(242) 

(242) 

          500  

     14,691  

             627  

(4) 

           412  

               16,226  

Balance as at 1 April 2017 
Shares issued 
IFRS2 Share-Based payment 
charge 
Loss for the year 
Balance as at 1 April 2018 

Shares issued 
IFRS2 Share-Based payment 
charge 
Loss for the year 
Balance as at 31 March 
2019 

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Notes To The Parent Company Financial Statements 

1  ACCOUNTING POLICIES 

BASIS OF PREPARATION 
The accounting policies set out below have been applied consistently to all periods presented in these 
consolidated financial statements made up to 31 March 2019. 

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 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 two primary statements, including cash flow statements) 
− 38B-D (additional comparative information) 
− 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 and 18A 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 two 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. 

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Notes To The Parent Company Financial Statements (Continued)  

1  ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) 

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.  

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 statement of comprehensive income over the period of the borrowings using the effective 
interest method. 

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 Company’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.  

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Notes To The Parent Company Financial Statements (Continued)  

1  ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED) 

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. 
Treasury reserve represents the cost of shares held in Treasury. 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. 

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

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  CRITICAL ACCOUNTING JUDGEMENTS AND KEY SOURCES OF ESTIMATION UNCERTAINTY 

In the process of applying the Group’s accounting policies, which are described in note 1, 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). 

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Notes To The Parent Company Financial Statements (Continued)  

2  CRITICAL ACCOUNTING JUDGEMENTS AND KEY SOURCES OF ESTIMATION UNCERTAINTY (CONTINUED) 

INVESTMENTS 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.   

3  PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT 

As permitted by Section 408 of the Companies Act 2006, the Statement of Comprehensive Income of the 
Company is not presented as part of these financial statements. 
The loss after tax for the year in the Company is £242,000 (2018: loss £153,000). Audit fees for the Company 
for the year were £3,000 (2018: £3,000). 

4 

INVESTMENTS 

Cost  
As at 1 April 2018 
Capital contribution in respect of share based payments 
At 31 March 2019 

Subsidiaries 
£'000 
       10,880  
             181  
       11,061  

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

Name of subsidiary  Country of 

Nature of business 

Registered Office 

incorporation 

Trakm8 Limited 

England and 
Wales 

Trakm8 s.r.o.  

Czech 
Republic 

Development, 
manufacture, 
marketing and 
distribution of 
vehicle telematics 
Mapping services 
and distribution of 
vehicle telematics 

BOX Telematics 
Limited 

England and 
Wales 

Non-trading 

Route Monkey 
Limited 

Scotland 

Route optimisation 

4 Roman Park, 
Roman Way, 
Coleshill, West 
Midlands, B46 1HG 

A7 Office Centre 
Praha 7 U Pruhonu 
1588/11a 170 00 
Czech Republic 
4 Roman Park, 
Roman Way, 
Coleshill, West 
Midlands, B46 1HG 
4 Roman Park, 
Roman Way, 
Coleshill, West 
Midlands, B46 1HG 

Class of 
holding 

Proportion 
held and 
voting rights 

Ordinary 

100% 

Ordinary 

100% 

Ordinary 

100% 

Ordinary 

100% 

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Notes To The Parent Company Financial Statements (Continued)  

4 

INVESTMENTS (CONTINUED) 

Name of subsidiary  Country of 

Nature of business 

Registered Office 

incorporation 

Interactive Projects 
Limited 

England and 
Wales 

Dormant 

Data Driven 
Telematics Limited 

England and 
Wales 

Dormant 

DCS Systems 
Limited 

England and 
Wales 

Dormant 

Roadsense 
Technology Limited 

England and 
Wales 

Non-trading 

Trakm8 HK Limited  Hong Kong 

Non-trading 

4 Roman Park, 
Roman Way, 
Coleshill, West 
Midlands, B46 1HG 
4 Roman Park, 
Roman Way, 
Coleshill, West 
Midlands, B46 1HG 
4 Roman Park, 
Roman Way, 
Coleshill, West 
Midlands, B46 1HG 
4 Roman Park, 
Roman Way, 
Coleshill, West 
Midlands, B46 1HG 
Prosperity Centre, 
25 Chong Yip 
Street, Kwun Tong, 
Hong Kong 

Class of 
holding 

Proportion 
held and 
voting rights 

Ordinary 

100% 

Ordinary 

100% 

Ordinary 

100% 

Ordinary 

100% 

Ordinary 

100% 

The following dormant companies within the Group will take the exemption from preparing and filing financial 
statements for the year ended 31 March 2019 (by virtue of s394A and 448A of Companies Act 2006 
respectively). As the ultimate parent company, Trakm8 Holdings PLC has guaranteed the debts and liabilities 
held within these companies as required under section 394C of the Companies Act 2006 

Company 

Interactive Projects Limited 
Data Driven Telematics Limited 
DCS Systems 
Limited 

Company 
registration 
number 

4327499 
5785552 
9641691 

The following companies within the Group will adopt the Department for Business, Innovation and skills audit 
exemption for the year ended 31 March 2019. As the ultimate parent company, Trakm8 Holdings PLC has 
guaranteed the debts and liabilities held within these companies as required under section 479A of the 
Companies Act 2006 
Company 

Company 
registration 
number 

Trakm8 Limited 
BOX Telematics Limited 
Route Monkey Limited 
Roadsense Technology Limited 

Company Number 05452547 

4415597 
3947199 
SC353016 
8300339 

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Notes To The Parent Company Financial Statements (Continued)  

5  TRADE AND OTHER RECEIVABLES 

Amounts due from subsidiary undertakings 
Social security and other taxes 
Prepayments  and other receivables 

As at 31 
March 2019 

£'000 
         10,916  
                16  
                11  
         10,943  

As at 31 
March 
2018 
£'000 
          8,677  
                10  
                  5  
          8,692  

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

6  TRADE AND OTHER PAYABLES 

Trade creditors 
Amounts due to subsidiary undertakings 
Accruals and other creditors 

As at 31 
March 2019 

£'000 
                60  
                26  
                90  
              176  

As at 31 
March 
2018 
£'000 
                48  
                11  
              175  
              234  

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

7  BORROWINGS 

Current 
Non-current 

As at 31 March 2019 
Bank loan 
Arrangement 
fee 
£'000 
(28) 
(21) 
(49) 

Gross 
£'000 
           1,028  
           5,229  
           6,257  

Bank loan 
The Bank loan is repayable as follows: 

Within one year 
After one and within two years 
After two and within five years 

As at 31 March 2018 
Bank loan 
Arrangement 
fee 
£'000 
(28) 
(49) 
(77) 

Gross 
£'000 
          1,004  
          5,307  
6,311  

Net 
£'000 
              976  
          5,258  
          6,234  
6,234 

Net 
£'000 
          1,000  
          5,208  
6,208  
6,208 

£'000 
          1,000  
              858  
          4,350  
          6,208  

£'000 
              976  
          1,000  
          4,258  
          6,234  

A £5.0m term loan with HSBC.  The 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. As at 31 March 2019 the Group owed £1.9m (2018: £2.9m). 
A £5.0m revolving credit facility with HSBC which is repayable in full on 31 December 2020.  The loan bears an 
interest rate of 1.75% over LIBOR on the drawn amount and a fee of 0.75% on the undrawn facility.  As at 31 
March 2019 the Group had drawn down £4.4m of this credit facility (2018: £3.4m). 
The interest rate increased to 4.5% on both facilities on 27 June 2019. 

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Notes To The Parent Company Financial Statements (Continued)  

8 

CALLED UP SHARE CAPITAL AND RESERVES 

Details of share capital and share options are shown in notes 22 and 23 to the consolidated financial 
statements above.  

Details of the Company's other reserves are shown in note 4 to the consolidated financial statements.  

9 

GUARANTEE 

The borrowings of the company are guaranteed by the assets of subsidiary company, Trakm8 Limited. 

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 2,500,000 (2018: 925,000) share options were granted during the year to ten (2018: seven) key 
management personnel. 

11  EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS 

The Directors of the Company were paid by Trakm8 Ltd for their services to the Group. The Company had no 
employees (2018: nil) during the year (other than the Directors). See remuneration report on page 29 for 
further details. 

Details of Group 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 26. 

12  DIVIDENDS 

The Company is not proposing a final dividend for the year (2018: nil).  

No Dividend was paid during the year (2018: nil). 

13  POST BALANCE SHEET EVENTS 

On the 27 June 2019 the Group entered into an Amendment and Restatement Agreement with HSBC that 
amended the covenants and amended the margin on both the term loan and revolving credit facility to 4.5% 
above base rate and LIBOR respectively.  All other terms of the facilities remained unchanged. 

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Trakm8 Holdings PLC 
Officers and Advisors for Trakm8 Holdings PLC 

Directors  
Matthew Cowley  
Tim Cowley  
William Duffy  
Keith Evans  
Jon Furber 
Sean Morris  
John Watkins  
Mark Watkins  
Nadeem Raza 

Company Secretary 
Jon Furber  

Registered Office  

4 Roman Park Roman Way, Coleshill, Birmingham, 
West Midlands, United Kingdom, B46 1HG  

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

Independent Auditors 

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Cornwall Court, 19 
Cornwall Street, Birmingham, B3 2DT 

Nominated Adviser and Broker  

Arden Partners 
Address: 125 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1AR 

Significant Shareholders 

Significant Shareholder 

Number of shares 

Percentage Holding  

Microlise Group Holdings Limited 
John Watkins  
Edric Property & Investment Company 
James Hedges 
Hargreaves Lansdown 
Tim Cowley 
Matt Cowley 
HSDL Nominees 

10,000,000 
7,768,768 
3,815,000 
2,438,766 
2,343,452 
2,268,127 
1,994,203 
1,715,858 

20.0% 
15.6% 
7.6% 
4.9% 
4.7% 
4.5% 
4.0% 
3.4% 

Company Number 05452547 

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