Filed Accounts
2 credits / callA company's latest filed accounts read into plain figures, this year and last, from Companies House's own tagged document.
Balance sheet and (where filed) profit and loss figures from the latest iXBRL accounts, current and prior year, audit status, what's not included; a current ratio and the net-assets change. PDF-only accounts said so and not charged.
Every company files accounts at Companies House, and nearly every small one files them electronically as a tagged document (iXBRL): every figure carries its name and its date. Read raw it's a web page; read properly it's the balance sheet and, where the accounts include one, the profit and loss, as numbers: net assets, current assets, cash, debtors, creditors due within and after a year, equity, turnover, profit, average employees, this year beside last. The services that sell this charge £25 to £39 a month per seat; this endpoint reads the document on demand for 2 credits and says plainly what the accounts leave out (micro-entity and small-company accounts needn't include a profit and loss, so no turnover is usually the law, not a gap) and whether they were audited. Large companies that upload a PDF can't be read as figures; the reply says so and the call isn't charged.
what you’d build with it
Credit control and supplier vetting
Net assets, cash and creditors due within a year, with last year beside them, before you extend terms.
Lending and finance platforms
The latest filed balance sheet by company number, in one call, as the application comes in.
Due diligence
Audited or not, dormant or trading, the standards applied, and the year-on-year movement.
example response
{
"company": { "name": "ACJ JOINERY LTD", "number": "SC528258", "status": "active", "incorporatedOn": "2016-03-01", "accountsNextDue": "2023-03-31" },
"filed": true,
"readable": true,
"accounts": { "filedOn": "2022-03-31", "madeUpTo": "2021-03-31", "kind": "micro-entity", "period": { "start": "2020-04-01", "end": "2021-03-31" }, "priorPeriod": { "start": "2019-04-01", "end": "2020-03-31" }, "standards": "Micro-entities", "audited": "Audit Exempt, No Accountants Report", "auditExempt": true, "dormant": false, "preparedWith": "Companies House" },
"figures": {
"currentAssets": { "current": 6972, "prior": 8571 },
…Abbreviated. The full example, every endpoint and runnable code are in the implementation guide above; the integration pack downloads beside it. No account needed to read any of it.
Why developers pick it
The document itself, on demand
Read from Companies House's tagged accounts at the moment you ask, not from a copy made months ago.
Honest about what's missing
No turnover in micro-entity accounts is the law, and the reply says so instead of showing a blank.
Pennies, by company number
Two credits a company against £25–£39 a month per seat elsewhere.
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