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significant transactions or events that occur between that date and the date of these financial statements.
The Group’s investments include goodwill identified on acquisition, net of any accumulated impairment losses. The Group accounts include the Group’s share of the income and expenses, and equity movements of equity accounted investees, after adjustments to align the accounting policies of those of the Group, from the date that significant influence or joint control commences until the date that significant influence or joint control ceases.
When the Group's share of losses exceeds its interest in an equity accounted investee, the carrying amount of that interest, including any long-term investments, is reduced to nil, and the recognition of further losses is discontinued except to the extent that the Group has an obligation or has made payments on behalf of the investee.
In respect of other invested companies, Scottish Enterprise considers that in general, the role of the Group is normally that of a passive investor and that investment holdings taken will be disposed of at the earliest opportunity. Scottish Enterprise’s role is to provide funding, primarily alongside venture capital co-investment partners, to individual companies to drive economic growth in Scotland and therefore, although a holding may at any particular time be in excess of 20% of the equity, these companies are not accounted for as associated undertakings, in view of the absence of influence over their financial and operating policies.
Scottish Enterprise receives Grant in Aid from the Scottish Ministers on an annual basis coincident with the Group's financial year to finance its net operating costs. Grant in Aid is credited to the General Reserve and the net cost of activities funded by Grant in Aid is charged to this reserve.
Scottish Enterprise also receives Financial Transactions funding from the Scottish Government for the specific purpose of financing equity investments and the provision of loans. Financial Transactions funding is repayable over variable periods and is recognised as a current or long-term liability in accordance with the estimated repayment terms of the underlying financial assets, initially at the time each tranche of funding is drawn down from the Scottish Government and then reviewed on an annual basis thereafter. For equity investments, where it is difficult to predict the timing of an exit, indicative repayments timescales are set as 10 years. As cashflows cannot be estimated reliably the Financial Transactions liability detailed in Note 18 has not been discounted.