the principal accounting policies adopted in the presentation of the financial statements are set out below and have remained unchanged from the previous year and have also been consistently applied within the same accounts.
Compliance with accounting standards
The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of FRS 102 Section 1A Small Entities and Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. There were no material departures from that standard. The company has elected to avail of the exemptions available to small entities and the profit and loss of the company is presented as a Statement of Income and Retained Earnings and accordingly the company has available of the exemption available from preparing a separate Statement of Changes in Equity.
Prior year comparative figures have been aligned with disclosure formats relating to the current year with no amendments to the financial figures.
Accounting policies
The principal accounting policies adopted in the preparation of the financial statements are set out below and have remained unchanged from the previous year, and also have been consistently applied within the same accounts.
Basis of preparation
The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention as modified by the revaluation of certain fixed assets.
Exemption from preparing consolidated accounts
The company has availed of the exemption under s399 of the Companies Act 2006 which exempts a parent company from preparing consolidated accounts if the company falls within the small companies regime
Exemption from audit
The company is applying the exemption from audit available under s479 of the Companies Act 2006 given that both it, and the group headed by it, qualify as small entities under the small companies regime.
Exemption from preparing a cash flow statement
In accordance with the requirements of FRS 102, the company is applying the exemption available to small companies to avail of the reduced disclosure framework and has elected not to prepare a cash flow statement.
Foreign currency
The company's functional and presentation currency is British Pound Sterling (£) rounded to the nearest £. The Directors condier that £ reflects the primary economic environment in which the company operates.
Transactions in currencies other than the functional currency of the Company (foreign currencies) are recognised at the spot rate at the dates of the transactions or at an average rate where this rate approximates the actual rateat the date of the transaction. At the end of each reporting period, monetary items denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated at the rates prevailing at that date. Non-monetary items that are measured in terms of historical cost in a foreign currency are not retranslated.