Abbreviated Company Accounts - GLASGOW DEFENCE LAWYERS 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.

Turnover policy
Turnover represents the total invoice value, excluding value added tax, of fee income during the year and derives from the provision of goods falling within the company's ordinary activities. Fee income represents the right to consideration earned in respect of legal services performed during the course of the period, net of any discounts given to clients. Services provided to clients during the year which, at the balance sheet date, have not been invoiced to clients, have been recognised in accordance with FRS 5 and UITF40. Fee income recognised in this manner is based on the assessment of the fair value of the services provided by the balance sheet date as a proportion of the total expected value of the contract.

Tangible assets depreciation policy
Tangible fixed assets and depreciation
Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost less residual value of each asset over its expected useful life, as follows:

Fixtures, fittings
and equipment - 25% straight line

Intangible assets amortisation policy
Goodwill
Acquired goodwill is written off in equal annual instalments over its estimated useful economic life of 20 years.

Other accounting policies
Deferred taxation

Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the balance sheet date where transactions or events have occurred at that date that will result in an obligation to pay more, or a right to pay less or to receive more, tax, with the following exceptions: Provision is made for tax on gains arising from the revaluation (and similar fair value adjustments) of fixed assets, and gains on disposal of fixed assets that have been rolled over into replacement assets, only to the extent that, at the balance sheet date, there is a binding agreement to dispose of the assets concerned. However, no provision is made where, on the basis of all available evidence at the balance sheet date, it is more likely than not that the taxable gain will be rolled over into replacement assets and charged to tax only where the replacement assets are sold; Provision is made for deferred tax that would arise on remittance of the retained earnings of overseas subsidiaries, associates and joint ventures only to the extent that, at the balance sheet date, dividends have been accrued as receivable; Deferred tax assets are recognised only to the extent that the directors consider that it is more likely than not that there will be suitable taxable profits from which the future reversal of the underlying timing differences can be deducted. Deferred tax is measured on an undiscounted basis at the tax rates that are expected to apply in the periods in which timing differences reverse, based on tax rates and laws enacted or substantively enacted at the balance sheet date.