Abbreviated Company Accounts - ESSMAN LTD

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 comprises rental income and other recoverables from tenants.

Tangible assets depreciation policy
Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost less residual value of each asset over its expected useful life, as follows:
Land and buildings - No depreciation charged
Fixtures, fittings
and equipment - 25% straight line

Other accounting policies
Investment property : Compliance with the FRSSE paragraph 6.50 is a departure from the Companies Act 2006 necessary to give a true and fair view. The Companies Act 2006 requires tangible fixed assets to be depreciated systematically over their useful economic lives. However, investment properties are held for investment rather than consumption; the directors therefore consider that depreciation on a systematic basis would not be appropriate in this case and that the accounting policy adopted is necessary for the accounts to give a true and fair view. Depreciation or amortisation is only one of the many factors reflected in the annual valuation and the amount which might otherwise have been shown cannot be separately identified or quantified.

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 that result in an obligation to pay more or a right to pay less tax in the future have occurred by the balance sheet date with certain limited exceptions. Deferred tax is calculated on an undiscounted basis at the tax rates that are expected to apply in the periods in which the timing differences are expected to reverse, based on tax rates and laws enacted at the balance sheet date.