This section applies if a non-UK resident company within the charge to corporation tax prepares its return of accounts for a period of account in a currency other than sterling (the “accounts currency”).

Profits or losses of the company for the period that fall to be calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice for corporation tax purposes must be calculated in sterling as follows—

• Step 1

  Calculate those profits or losses in the accounts currency.

• Step 2

  Take the sterling equivalent of those profits or losses (see section 11).

If this section applies, assume that any sterling amount mentioned in the Corporation Tax Acts is its equivalent expressed in the accounts currency of the company.

The reference in subsection (1) to the company's “return of accounts” is to a return of such accounts F1... as may be required under paragraph 3 of Schedule 18 to FA 1998 (company tax returns).