Paragraph 3 Summary profit and loss account

(1)

The summary financial statement shall contain, in the case of a company the directors of which are not required to prepare group accounts under Part VII of the 1985 Act for the financial year, a summary profit and loss account for the company, or, in the case of a company the directors of which are so required, a summary consolidated profit and loss account, showing, in so far as they may be derived from the full profit and loss account, amounts for the following items:

(a)

the profit or loss for the financial year before taxation;

(b)

taxation, that is the combined amount of the charge to revenue for United Kingdom taxation required to be shown by paragraph 14(1)(c) of Schedule 9 to the 1985 Act and the charge for taxation imposed out of the United Kingdom on profits, income and (so far as charged to revenue) capital gains required to be shown by that paragraph;

(c)

the profit or loss for the financial year after taxation;

(d)

extraordinary and exceptional items, that is the amounts required by paragraph 18(6)(a) of that Schedule; and

(e)

dividends paid and proposed, that is the aggregate amount of dividends paid and proposed required by paragraph 14(1)(k) of that Schedule

in each case under appropriate headings.

(2)

The summary profit and loss account shall also show, at the end thereof and under an appropriate heading, the figure required by paragraph 1(1) of Part I of Schedule 6 to the 1985 Act (directors' emoluments).

(3)

In respect of every item shown in the summary profit and loss account the corresponding amount shall be shown for the immediately preceding financial year; for this purpose “the corresponding amount” is the amount shown in the summary financial statement for that year or which would have been so shown had such a statement been prepared for that year, after any adjustments necessary to ensure that that amount is comparable with the item for the financial year in question.