Last accounts category

I’m noticing that sometimes when receiving responses from the company profile endpoint (https://api.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/xxxxxxxx) the ‘accounts.last_accounts.type’ field is missing, why is this?

Any examples? Could be that:

  • It’s a type of company which doesn’t have this field.
  • It hasn’t filed accounts yet.

An example of the last is:
/company/11863251

The returned object has:

{
    "date_of_creation":"2019-03-06",
    "accounts": {
        "last_accounts":{"type":"null"},
        ...

Here is the specific company:

The company most definitely has filed accounts.

Also, are companies required to notify you that they have had their accounts audited - regardless of the situation in which they had to be audited?

Well I’m not from Companies House so they wouldn’t… Thanks for the example - I’ve no idea why the “type” field is missing here, the filing history list looks there’s a type for the previous accounts filings.

Over to Companies House.