SCHEDULE OF SERVICES

Statutory Companies Act 2006

 REVISED AUGUST 2018

This schedule should be read in conjunction with the engagement letter and the terms of business.

1. RESPONSIBILITIES AND SCOPE FOR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS PREPARATION SERVICES

1.1. Your responsibilities as directors/members

1.1.1. As directors/members of the company/limited liability partnership, you are responsible for preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view and which have been prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 2006 (the Act). As directors you must not approve the financial statements unless you are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of the company/limited liability partnership.

1.1.2. For companies where appropriate: You have instructed us to prepare abridged accounts under The Small Companies and Groups (Accounts and Directors’ Report) Regulations 2008 as amended by The Companies, Partnerships and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2015. As directors you are responsible for obtaining the necessary consents from all parties and for delivering the required statement to the registrar.

1.1.3. For LLPs where appropriate: You have instructed us to prepare abridged accounts under The Limited Liability Partnerships (Accounts and Audit) (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2008 as amended by The Limited Liability Partnerships, Partnerships and Groups (Accounts and Audit) Regulations 2016. As designated members, you are responsible for obtaining the necessary consents from all members and for delivering the required statement to the registrar.

1.1.4. In preparing the financial statements, you are required to:

a) select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;

a) make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and

b) prepare the financial statements on the going-concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company/limited liability partnership will continue in business.

1.1.5. You are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that set out with reasonable accuracy at any time the company’s/limited liability partnership’s financial position, and for ensuring that the financial statements comply with applicable accounting standards and with the Companies Act 2006 and give a true and fair view. By approving the financial statements you will be acknowledging this responsibility.

1.1.6. You are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company/limited liability partnership and hence for taking reasonable steps to prevent and detect fraud and other irregularities.

1.1.7. If audit exemption is being taken: You are also responsible for deciding whether, in each financial year, the company/limited liability partnership meets the conditions for exemption from an audit, as set out in section 477, 479A or 480 of the Companies Act 2006, and for deciding whether the exemption can be claimed that year.

1.1.8. You are responsible for ensuring that the business complies with the laws and regulations that apply to its activities, and for preventing non-compliance and detecting any that occurs.

1.1.9. You have undertaken to make available to us, as and when required, all the accounting records and related financial information and explanations that we need to do our work, including minutes of management and shareholders’/directors’ meetings. This is required to be confirmed in the directors’ report along with an acknowledgement that the financial statements have been prepared on an appropriate accounting basis.

1.1.10. If financial information is published — on the business website or by other electronic means — which includes a report by us or otherwise associated with us, you must inform us of the electronic publication and get our consent before it occurs and ensure that it presents the financial information properly. We have the right to withhold consent to the electronic publication of the financial statements if they are to be published in an inappropriate manner.

1.1.11. It is your responsibility to set up controls to prevent or detect quickly any changes to electronically published information. We are not responsible for reviewing these controls or for keeping the information under review after it is first published. You are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of electronically published information, and we accept no responsibility for changes made to information after it is first posted.

1.2. Our responsibilities as accountants

1.2.1. You have asked us to help you prepare the financial statements in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006, to enable profits to be calculated to meet the requirements of current tax legislation and to provide sufficient and relevant information to complete a tax return. We will compile the financial statements for your approval based on the accounting records and the information and explanations that you give us.

1.2.2. We will plan our work on the basis that no report on the financial statements is required by statute or regulation for the year, unless you inform us in writing to the contrary. We will make enquiries of management and undertake any procedures that we judge appropriate but are under no obligation to perform procedures that may be required for assurance engagements such as audits or reviews.

1.2.3. Non-audit clients: You have told us that the company/limited liability partnership is exempt from an audit of the financial statements. We will not check whether this is the case. However, if we find that the company/limited liability partnership is not entitled to the exemption, we will inform you.

1.2.4. Non-audit clients: Our work will not be an audit of the financial statements in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK), so we will not be able to provide any assurance that the accounting records or the financial statements are free from material misstatement, whether caused by fraud, other irregularities or error, or to identify weaknesses in internal controls.

1.2.5. Non-audit clients: Since we will not carry out an audit, or confirm in any way the accuracy or reasonableness of the accounting records, we cannot provide any assurance whether the financial statements that we prepare from those records will present a true and fair view.

1.2.6. We will advise you on whether your records are adequate for preparation of the financial statements and recommend improvements on anything we come across during the course of our work.

1.2.7. We have a professional duty to compile financial statements that conform with generally accepted accounting principles from the accounting records and information and explanations given to us. The accounting policies on which the financial statements have been compiled will be disclosed in the notes to the financial statements and will be referred to in our accountants’ report. We will not compile financial statements if the accounting principles, or the accounting policies selected by management, are inappropriate.

1.2.8. We also have a professional responsibility not to allow our name to be associated with financial statements which we believe may be misleading. Therefore, although we are not required to search for such matters, if we become aware, for any reason, that the financial statements may be misleading, we will discuss the matter with you with a view to agreeing appropriate adjustments and/or disclosures in the financial statements. In circumstances where the adjustments and/or disclosures that we consider appropriate are not made, or if we are not provided with appropriate information and, as a result, we consider that the financial statements is misleading, we will withdraw from the engagement.

1.2.9. As part of our normal procedures, we may ask you to confirm in writing any information or explanations given to us orally during our work.

1.2.10. You have instructed us to convert the financial statements into the iXBRL (inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language) format which is required by HMRC and Companies House where applicable. We will use professional software to create the tagged financial statements and you therefore agree that we can process any standard data tags without your prior approval, only referring back to you for any non-standard or judgemental areas. It remains your legal responsibility to provide the information in the iXBRL format and we will therefore issue a tagging report for your approval.

1.3. Form of the accountants’ report.

The accountants’ report helps users derive comfort from the involvement of chartered accountants who are subject to the ethical and other guidance issued by ICAEW in relation to the preparation of the financial information or statements. It also helps prevent users from deriving unwarranted assurance from the financial information or statements where no audit or assurance work has been performed and no opinion is expressed by the accountants.

1.3.1. We will report to you as appropriate that, in accordance with this engagement letter and to assist you to fulfil your responsibilities, we have not carried out an audit but have compiled the financial statements from the accounting records and from the information and explanations supplied to us. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than you for our work or for this report. If you wish to share this report with third parties, before doing so, you must discuss this with us, receive our consent and follow any stipulated conditions.

2. CORPORATE SERVICES

2.1. Company secretarial

2.1.1. A private company/limited liability partnership is required to file its financial statements at Companies House within nine months of the year end. The company will be liable to a fine if it fails to do so. We accept no responsibility for fines or regulatory action taken against the directors if the statutory financial statements are not available for filing.

2.1.2. We have agreed to act as your agent, and to carry out corporate services as agreed with you, which may include:

a) submit the financial statements to Companies House;

b) complete and submit the company’s confirmation statement;

c) complete and submit any other forms which are required by law to be filed at Companies House, provided that you keep us fully informed of any relevant changes or events which are required to be notified to Companies House, within one week of the change or event;

d) maintain the statutory books.

2.1.3. You have agreed to complete all the returns which are required by law to be filed at Companies House, for example, the confirmation statement and the notification of changes in directors. We will, of course, be pleased to advise you on these and any other company secretarial matters, if requested.