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How to file your company annual accounts with Companies House

Prepare statutory or abridged annual accounts for Companies House, make corrections and amendments, appeal against penalties for filing after the deadline

• Overview

  Your company’s annual accounts - called ‘statutory accounts’ - are…

• Micro-entities, small and dormant companies

  You might be able to send simpler (‘abridged’) accounts to Companies House…

• Corrections and amendments

  You can send amended accounts to Companies House: on paper through filing…

• Penalties for late filing

  You’ll have to pay penalties if you do not file your accounts and tax…

The Common Chart of Accounts is the set of codes to be used across central government for financial reporting into the OSCAR system.

Whole of Government Accounts is a consolidated set of financial statements for the UK public sector.

• Updated: 8 July 2026

This series brings together all documents relating to the basic bank account data reported to the Treasury by the nine banks designated to provide basic bank accounts.

• Updated: 5 November 2025

How to prepare and file annual accounts with Companies House for your UK registered company.

• Updated: 30 June 2026

Accounts for Companies House and Company Tax Returns for HMRC - what you must send, deadlines, filing separately or together

Find software to file company accounts for private limited companies, limited liability partnerships (LLPs) and charities.

Practical steps to manage the risk of online harm if your online platform allows people to create anonymous or multiple accounts.

• Updated: 29 June 2021

Small companies and micro-entities to file profit and loss accounts but can opt out of publication. All companies will need to file accounts via commercial software with more time to prepare.

• Updated: 9 June 2026