5(1)If a company does not draw up accounts in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice (“correct accounts”)—
(a)the provisions of this Schedule apply as if correct accounts had been drawn up, and
(b)the amounts referred to in this Schedule as being recognised for accounting purposes are those that would have been recognised if correct accounts had been drawn up.
(2)If a company draws up accounts that rely to any extent on amounts derived from an earlier period of account for which the company did not draw up correct accounts, the amounts referred to in this Schedule as being recognised for accounting purposes in the later period are those that would have been recognised if correct accounts had been drawn up for the earlier period.
(3)The provisions of this paragraph apply where the company does not draw up accounts at all as well as where it draws up accounts that are not correct.