Abbreviated Company Accounts - SHARON REST HOME LIMITED

1Accounting Policies

Basis of measurement and preparation of accounts
The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities effective April 2008.

Other accounting policies
Investment properties

Investment properties are valued at their open market value at the balance sheet date. Any surplus on revaluation is transferred to the investment property revaluation reserve. Any deficit is deducted from the investment property revaluation reserve, except for permanent diminutions in value, which are charged to the profit and loss account.

No amortisation or depreciation is provided in respect of freehold investment properties and leasehold investment properties with over 20 years to expiry, in accordance with Statement of Standard Accounting Practice 19: "Accounting for investment properties". This treatment is contrary to the requirements of the Companies Act 1985 to provide for depreciation but is considered necessary to ensure the financial statements give a true and fair view. Depreciation is only one of the factors reflected at the balance sheet date valuation and the amount that might otherwise have been shown cannot be separately identified or quantified.

Pension costs

The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme for employees. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company. The annual contributions payable are charged to the income and expenditure account.

Financial instruments

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 entity after deducting all of its financial liabilities.

Where the contractual obligations of financial instruments (including share capital) are equivalent to a similar debt instrument, those financial instruments are classed as financial liabilities. Financial liabilities are presented as such in the balance sheet. Finance costs and gains or losses relating to financial liabilities are included in the profit and loss account. Finance costs are calculated so as to produce a constant rate of return on the outstanding liability.

Where the contractual terms of share capital do not have any terms meeting the definition of a financial liability then this is classed as an equity instrument. Dividends and distributions relating to equity instruments are debited direct to equity.

All fixed assets are initially recorded at cost.