1. Accounting policies
Basis of measurement and preparation
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Financial Reporting Standard 101
Turnover policy
The Company applies the following five step model:1) Identification of a contract to provide administrative services2) Identification of performance obligations within that contract3) Determination of the transaction price as outlined within the contract for the provision of administrative services4) Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations as outlined within the contract and 5) Recognition of revenue For each performance obligation, the company identifies whether it has been satisfied at a point in time or over time based upon an evaluation of the receipt and consumption of benefits and enforceable payment rights associated with that obligation. The Company's agreements with customers do not contain complex terms or separately identifiable performance obligations outside delivering services to customers. The performance obligation is the supply of services to the customer and therefore the transaction price relates to this performance obligation.Revenue is recognised at the point in time when the service is provided.
Tangible fixed assets depreciation policy
Plant and equipmentPlant and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and impairment losses.Depreciation is charged to the statement of comprehensive income on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of each part of an item of property, plant and equipment. Land is not depreciated. The estimated useful lives are as follows:Short leasehold property 10% on costFixtures and fittings 10% - 25% on cost
Other accounting policies
Insight Travel Services Limited (“the company”) is a company incorporated in the UK. The registered number is 01970858 and the registered address is 14 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7HH. The company’s financial statements have been prepared and approved by the directors in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the EU (“Adopted IFRSs”), and under historical cost accounting rules. The accounting policies set out below have, unless otherwise stated, been applied consistently to all periods presented in these financial statements.Going concernThe Company's financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which the directors believe to be appropriate, notwithstanding the significant challenges posed by the current global COVID-19 crisis, for the following reasons.The Company manages its day to day and medium-term funding requirements through cash balances. These cash balances are forecast to provide sufficient liquidity to finance ordinary course of business. The global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is impacting all businesses. As a result of the pandemic, the nature of the Company’s business is such that in the next twelve months, there is expected to be an unpredictable variation in the value and timing of cash inflows. The directors have prepared cash flow forecasts for a period of 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements which indicate that, taking account of severe but plausible downsides, the company will have sufficient funds, even in downside cases, through funding from its ultimate parent company The Travel Corporation Limited, to meet its liabilities as they fall due for that period. The severe but plausible downside scenario forecast by the directors assumes no return to normally organised tours until summer 2022. Those forecasts are dependent on Travel Corporation Limited not seeking repayment of the amounts currently due to the group and providing additional financial support during that period. Travel Corporation Limited has indicated its intention to continue to make available such funds as are needed by the company, and that it does not intend to seek repayment of the amounts due at the balance sheet date, for the period covered by the forecasts. As with any company placing reliance on other group entities for financial support, the directors acknowledge that there can be no certainty that this support will continue although, at the date of approval of these financial statements, they have no reason to believe that it will not do so.Consequently, the directors are confident that the group will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.Use of estimates and judgementsThe preparation of financial statements in conformity with IFRSs requires management to make judgements, estimates and assumptions that affect the application of accounting policies and the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, income and expenses. Actual results may differ from these estimates. Estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an on-going basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimates are revised and in any future periods affected. The directors do not consider there to be any significant areas of estimation uncertainty or judgements in relation to these financial statements.Non-derivative financial instrumentsNon-derivative financial instruments comprise investments, trade and other receivables, cash and cash equivalents, loans and borrowings, and trade and other payables.Trade and other receivablesTrade and other receivables are recognised initially at fair value. Subsequent to initial recognition they are measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less any impairment losses. Impairment losses represent allowances for expected credit losses over the lifetime of the financial asset (ECLs). Loss allowances for trade receivables and other receivables such as amounts due to related parties are always measured at an amount equal to lifetime ECL. When determining whether the credit risk of a financial asset has increased significantly since initial recognition and when estimating ECL, the company considers reasonable and supportable information that is relevant and available without undue cost or effort. This includes both quantitative and qualitative information and analysis, based on the company’s historical experience and informed credit assessment and including forward-looking information.Classification of financial assetsThe classification of financial assets is generally based on the business model in which a financial asset is managed and its contractual cash flow characteristics. The three principal classification categories for financial assets: measured at amortised cost, FVOCI and FVTPL. A financial asset is measured at amortised cost if it meets both of the following conditions:- it is held within a business model whose objective is to hold assets to collect contractual cash flows; and- its contractual terms give rise on specified dates to cash flows that are solely payments of principal and interest on the principal amount outstanding.The company’s financial assets are in this category. These assets are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method. The amortised cost is reduced by impairment losses. Interest income, foreign exchange gains and losses and impairment are recognised in profit or loss. Any gain or loss on derecognition is recognised in profit or loss.Trade and other payablesTrade and other payables are recognised initially at fair value. Subsequent to initial recognition they are measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.Cash and cash equivalentsCash and cash equivalents comprise cash balances and call deposits. Bank overdrafts that are repayable on demand and form an integral part of the company’s cash management are included as a component of cash and cash equivalents for the purpose only of the cash flow statement.Intra-group financial instrumentsWhere the company enters into financial guarantee contracts to guarantee the indebtedness of other companies within its group, the company considers these to be insurance arrangements and accounts for them as such. In this respect, the company treats the guarantee contract as a contingent liability until such time as it becomes probable that the company will be required to make a payment under the guarantee.Employee benefitsDefined benefit plansThe company participates in a group defined benefit pension scheme, which was closed to new members from 1 May 2004 and closed to further accrual from 1 May 2011. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company in separate trustee administered funds. The pension scheme is a group plan and Insight Travel Services Limited is not the sponsoring entity. Consequently, the scheme is accounted for as a defined contribution scheme and obligations for contributions are recognised as an expense in the statement of comprehensive income as incurred. The net defined benefit cost of the pension scheme is therefore recognised fully by the ultimate controlling party.Defined contribution plansFrom 1 May 2004 the company participated in a group defined contribution scheme. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of the company in separate trust administered funds. Obligations for contributions to defined contribution pension plans are recognised as an expense in the statement of comprehensive income as incurred.TaxationTax on the profit or loss for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the statement of comprehensive income except to the extent that it relates to items recognised directly in equity, in which case it is recognised in equity.Current tax is the expected tax payable on the taxable income for the year, using tax rates in force for the year and any adjustment to tax payable in respect of previous years.Deferred tax is provided on temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for taxation purposes. The following temporary differences are not provided for: the initial recognition of goodwill; the initial recognition of assets or liabilities that affect neither accounting nor taxable profit other than in a business combination, and differences relating to investments in subsidiaries to the extent that they will probably not reverse in the foreseeable future. The amount of deferred tax provided is based on the expected manner of realisation or settlement of the carrying amount of assets and liabilities, using tax rates enacted or substantively enacted at the statement of financial position date.A deferred tax asset is recognised only to the extent that it is probable that future taxable profits will be available against which the asset can be utilised.ExpensesOperating lease paymentsPayments made under operating leases are recognised in the income statement on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease. Lease incentives received are recognised in the income statement as an integral part of the total lease expense.Financing income and expensesFinancing expenses comprise interest payable, finance charges on shares classified as liabilities and finance leases, and interest receivable on funds invested that are recognised in the income statement.Interest income and interest payable is recognised in income statement as it accrues, using the effective interest method.Capital ManagementThe company’s objective when managing capital is to safeguard the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern.The company has no external debt as at 31 December 2020 and is not subject to externally imposed capital requirements; management of capital therefore focuses around its ability to generate cash from its operations.Standards, amendments and interpretations adopted during the periodThe Company has adopted the following standards, amendments and interpretations which have not had a significant impact on the Company’s results:IFRS 16 ‘Leases’The Company has applied IFRS 16 using the modified retrospective approach and therefore the comparative information has not been restated and continues to be reported under IAS 17.At the inception of a contract, the Company assesses whether a contract is, or contains, a lease. A contract is, or contains, a lease if the contract conveys the right to control the use of an identified asset for a period of time in exchange for consideration. IFRS 16. As a lessee The Company allocates the consideration in the contract to each lease component on the basis of its relative stand-alone price and the aggregate stand-alone price of the non-lease components.The Company recognises a right-of-use asset and a lease liability at the lease commencement date. The right-of-use asset is initially measured at cost, which comprises the initial amount of the lease liability adjusted for any lease payments made at or before the commencement date, plus any initial direct costs incurred [and an estimate of costs to dismantle and remove the underlying asset or to restore the underlying asset or the site on which it is located], less any lease incentives received. The right-of-use asset is subsequently depreciated using the straight-line method from the commencement date to the end of the lease term, unless the lease transfers ownership of the underlying asset to the Company by the end of the lease term or the cost of the right-of-use asset reflects that the Company will exercise a purchase option. In that case the right-of-use asset will be depreciated over the useful life of the underlying asset, which is determined on the same basis as those of property and equipment. In addition, the right-of-use asset is periodically reduced by impairment losses, if any, and adjusted for certain remeasurements of the lease liability. The lease liability is initially measured at the present value of the lease payments that are not paid at the commencement date, discounted using the interest rate implicit in the lease or, if that rate cannot be readily determined, the Company's incremental borrowing rate.Lease payments included in the measurement of the lease liability comprise the following:-fixed payments, including in-substance fixed payments; -variable lease payments that depend on an index or a rate, initially measured using the index or rate as at the commencement date -amounts expected to be payable under a residual value guarantee; and -the exercise price under a purchase option that the Company is reasonably certain to exercise, -lease payments in an optional renewal period if the Company is reasonably certain to exercise an extension option, and -penalties for early termination of a lease unless the Company is reasonably certain not to terminate early.The lease liability is measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method. It is remeasured when there is a change in future lease payments arising from a change in an index or rate, there is a change in the Company's estimate of the amount expected to be payable under a residual value guarantee, if the Company changes its assessment of whether it will exercise a purchase, extension or termination option or if there is a revised in-substance fixed lease payment.When the lease liability is remeasured in this way, a corresponding adjustment is made to the carrying amount of the right-of-use asset, to the extent that the right-of-use asset is reduced to nil, with any further adjustment required from the remeasurement being recorded in profit or loss.The Company presents right-of-use assets that do not meet the definition of investment property in 'property, plant and equipment' and lease liabilities in 'loans and borrowings' in the statement of financial position.