Abbreviated Company Accounts - ESSJAY PROPERTIES (HAMPSTEAD) LIMITED

1Accounting Policies

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

Turnover policy
The turnover shown in the profit and loss account represents amounts invoiced during the year.

Tangible assets depreciation policy
No depreciation has been provided on the freehold property. Other fixed assets are being depreciated on a straight line basis over their useful lives, which is 10 years.

Other accounting policies
Investment properties

The company's investment property is included in the Balance sheet at historical cost. This is not in accordance with the requirements of Statement of Standard Accounting Practice No 19 which requires such properties to be stated at their open market value.

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.