Abbreviated Company Accounts - HORIZON CONSULTING ENGINEERS LIMITED

1Accounting Policies

Basis of measurement and preparation of accounts
The accounts are prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective January 2015).

Turnover policy
Turnover represents the total value of goods, excluding value added tax, provided to customers during the year, plus the value of work, excluding value added tax, performed during the year with respect to services.

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:

Property improvements - straight line over 10 years
Plant and machinery - 25% reducing balance

Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation.

Other accounting policies
Stock and work in progress
Work in progress is valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value.

Pensions
The pension costs charged in the financial statements represent the contribution payable by the company during the year.

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.

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.