Companies House writes its record in codes. These pages say what each one means, in the same words snapdue uses when it renders your company. Every code here comes from the registrar own published enumerations.
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The Standard Industrial Classification names what a company does. Every UK company gives Companies House at least one code and up to four, and they are the codes a buyer, a lender and an insurer read to decide what kind of business this is. A code that no longer describes the trade is a small, cheap thing to fix and a common cause of a mispriced quote.
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The type records what kind of legal body the company is, which decides what it must file and who is liable for what. Most trading companies are a private company limited by shares. A community interest company, a limited liability partnership and a Royal Charter body sit under different obligations entirely.
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The status is the single most consequential field on the register. Active means the company is on the register and not in an insolvency process. Anything else changes what a counterparty should do next, and a proposal to strike off in particular is a deadline rather than a description.
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The status detail sits alongside the status and narrows it. It is the field that separates a company being struck off at its own request from one the registrar is removing, which is not the same conversation.
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Every entry in a filing history carries a description key, and this is what each one means in plain words. It is the fastest way to read a filing history without opening every document, and a sudden run of one kind of filing is usually the story.
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A role names what an appointment is. Director and secretary are the common ones, and a corporate director names a company rather than a person, which matters because there is nobody behind it to verify.
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The accounts type records how much detail a set of filed accounts carries. Micro entity and filleted accounts show far less than full accounts, and knowing which was filed tells you what a buyer will be able to see without asking.
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An insolvency case type names the process a company is in. Each one has a different outcome for a creditor, a supplier and an employee, and reading the wrong one for the right one is an expensive mistake.
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An insolvency case carries dates, and each date has a type that says what happened on it. Together they are the timeline of the process.
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The jurisdiction records which registrar holds the company and which body of company law applies to it. England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are not interchangeable.
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