ANNUAL REPORT 2019

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB 2019 ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS 32 F INANCIAL REPORT O F T H E G E N E R A L COMM I T T E E The General Committee present their report and the audited financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2019. GENERAL COMMITTEE’S RESPONSIBILITIES STATEMENT The General Committee is responsible for preparing the General Committee’s report and the audited financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations. Law applicable to Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies in the UK requires the General Committee to prepare the financial statements for each financial year. Under that law, the General Committee has elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland’. In preparing these financial statements the General Committee is required to: – select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; – make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and – prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Club will continue in business. The General Committee is responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Club and enable it to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Co‑operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014.The General Committee is also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Club and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY The principal activities of the society are those of a first- class County Cricket Club. RESULT The income and expenditure account is set out on page 36 and shows the surplus for the year. GENERAL COMMITTEE The General Committee of the society who served during the year were: P GWright RWTennant (Chairman) WTaylor (President) D J Bicknell Ms K A Davies OBE S E Foster (Vice Chairman) J Gillott P J Hacker R Stevenson J P Moore P J Ellis (Treasurer) P Ford-Murphy D Peasey (Appointed 25 Feb 2019) DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO AUDITORS Each of the persons who are Committee Members at the time when this report is approved has confirmed that: – so far as the General Committee is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the Company’s auditors are unaware; and – the General Committee has taken all the steps that ought to have been taken as a General Committee in order to be aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the Club’s auditors are aware of that information. This report was approved by the General Committee and signed on its behalf. RWTennant | Chairman 10 December 2019