A FTSE SMALL CAP Deputy Company Secretary writes...
Is anyone else currently using Blueprint to file dormant company accounts at Companies House?
We are no longer able to file ‘dormant’ accounts through Blueprint – instead the software has been altered so that we have to file ‘micro-entity’ accounts instead. We know that Companies House will no longer accept abbreviated accounts, but they will still accept dormant accounts. We are concerned that micro-entity accounts are not quite right for dormant companies, but Blueprint have now turned off that functionality.
Does this concern anyone else? If so, are you filing as per Blueprint with micro-entity or taking action to file hard copy dormant accounts at Companies House?
I have just filed online micro-entity accounts for a dormant company, at the suggestion of Companies House, because the dormant company online format cannot recognise certain elements such as share premium.
Companies House confirmed that it did not matter to them whether a company that was dormant filed dormant accounts or micro-entity accounts, and as the main objective was to ensure the filing deadline was met, this has been achieved.
We recently experienced this issue and had the same concern. Providing the dormant companies in question fit two of the three criteria for micro entities on the Companies House website (repeated in the accounts wizard in Blueprint), this is fine.
For micro-entities you cannot include a directors’ report, but you can include the balance sheet information and notes to the accounts.
When creating the micro-company accounts, set up both the previous and current periods’ micro-entity accounts and micro-entity balance sheets in Blueprint to ensure the accounts created for filing are correct.
There is no field for signatories in the micro-entity accounts data library which means you need to ensure the accounts wizard has the “add signatory” check box showing.
The accounts we filed as micro-entity accounts were all accepted by Companies House.