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Where to put the company number on accounts filed with Companies House

From 1 October 2009, new rules come into force governing where the company number should be placed on a set of full or abbreviated accounts filed with Companies House. The rules state the the company number must appear on at least one of the following:

• Profit and loss account
• Balance sheet
• Directors report
• Directors remuneration report
• Auditors report

This new requirement is buried away on page 38 of the Registrars rules, and came as a bit of a surprise to VT Software when a few users mentioned it on 1 October. As far as VT is aware, this change was not publicised in any way.

VT took the matter up with their contacts at Companies House who said that it was not their direct intention to exclude the Cover page from the above list, but they were unable to explicitly include it as it is not a document that one is legally obliged to file! They did confirm that they would not reject accounts, at least for the time being, that showed the company number only on the cover page.

The March 2010 edition of VT Final Accounts includes the registered number on the directors report (full accounts) and balance sheet (abbreviated accounts).