Financial instruments are classified and accounted for, according to the substance of the contractual arrangement, as either financial assets, financial liabilities or equity instruments. The basic financial instruments of the company are as follows:
Debtors
Debtors do not carry any interest and are stated at their nominal value. Appropriate allowances for estmated irrecoverable amounts are recoginsed in the Profit and Loss account when there is objective evidence that the asset is impaired.
Cash at bank and in hand
This comprises cash at bank and in hand.
Trade creditors
Trade creditors are not interest bearing and are stated at their nominal value.