The Companies Act 2006 requires all properties to be depreciated. However, this requirement conflicts with the generally accepted accounting principle set out in The Financial Reporting Standard 102 (Section 1A) for small entities. The director considers that, because these properties are not held for consumption but for their investment potential, to depreciate them would not give a true and fair view that it is necessary to adopt The Financial Reporting Standard 102 (Section 1A) for small entities to give a true and fair view. If this departure from the Act had not been made, the profit for the financial period would have been reduced by the amount of depreciation.