Section 407: Consistency of financial reporting within group

Companies Act 2006 · 2006 c. 46View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 15: Accounts and reports — Chapter 4: Annual accounts

The directors of a parent company must secure that the individual accounts of—

the parent company, and
each of its subsidiary undertakings,

are all prepared using the same financial reporting framework, except to the extent that in their opinion there are good reasons for not doing so.

Subsection (1) does not apply if the directors do not prepare group accounts for the parent company.

Subsection (1) only applies to accounts of subsidiary undertakings that are required to be prepared under this Part.

Subsection (1) does not require accounts of undertakings that are charities to be prepared using the same financial reporting framework as accounts of undertakings which are not charities.

Subsection (1)(a) does not apply where the directors of a parent company prepare IAS group accounts and IAS individual accounts.

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