File your company accounts online for £19 + VAT

Private limited companies that qualify as micro-entities, including dormant companies. A company is a micro-entity if it meets at least two of these: turnover of £1 million or less, a balance sheet total of £500,000 or less, and 10 or fewer employees on average. The accounts are prepared under FRS 105. Companies that need small-company (FRS 102 Section 1A), audited or group accounts should use an accountant for now.

No. Choose “From HMRC submission” and AccLedger uses the accounts HMRC accepted with your CT600. Before anything is sent, AccLedger checks that the balance sheet going to Companies House matches the one HMRC holds, figure by figure — so the two filings always agree.

Yes. Choose “Enter figures” and type your profit and loss account and balance sheet from your accounts, with last year’s figures alongside. AccLedger checks the balance sheet balances and builds the iXBRL accounts from what you entered. Make sure the figures match the accounts sent to HMRC with your CT600.

Micro and small companies may leave the profit and loss account and directors’ report out of the copy they file at Companies House (Companies Act 2006, section 444). Filleted accounts keep your turnover and profit off the public register while still meeting the filing requirement. AccLedger files filleted accounts by default; you can choose full accounts instead. HMRC always receives full accounts with the CT600.

Yes. Tick that the company was dormant throughout the period and say whether it has ever traded. AccLedger produces dormant micro-entity accounts with the right statements and files them for the same £19 + VAT.

Your company registration number, the six-character company authentication code Companies House posted to your registered office, your figures for the period (and the prior period, unless these are your first accounts), the director approving the accounts and the date they were approved.

Everything for one company and one accounting period: the iXBRL accounts, the filing to Companies House, status checks until Companies House accepts or rejects it, and a copy of exactly what was filed. If Companies House rejects the accounts, or you need to file amended accounts for the same period later, there is no extra charge. Subscribers to an AccLedger limited company plan file at no extra cost.

Nine months after the end of your accounting period for a private company. A company’s first accounts are due 21 months after the date of incorporation, or three months after the end of the first accounting reference period if that is later. Your Corporation Tax return is a separate filing with its own deadline.

Companies House charges an automatic late filing penalty: £150 if the accounts are up to one month late, £375 up to three months, £750 up to six months and £1,500 after that. The penalty doubles if the accounts are late two years in a row.

Companies House checks the filing as it arrives and then examines it, which can take anything from a few hours to a few days. AccLedger shows the status as pending until Companies House accepts or rejects it, along with any reasons for a rejection.