Registered Companies House due dates

Why the customer-specific date currently published on the register controls over a generic calculation.

Use the registered company-specific due date

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For a specific company, Sterling uses the current due date published by Companies House and shows any disagreement with a generic statutory calculation.

The company-profile resource labels accounts.next_accounts.due_on as the next accounts due date and confirmation_statement.next_due as the date by which the next confirmation statement must be received. A registered date can reflect facts a generic calculator does not have, such as an approved extension, an accounting-reference-date change, or a register correction.

Exceptions and branches

• A stale register observation is labelled and should be refreshed before relying on a changed deadline.
• Customer-specific register values remain private and are never published in the public wiki.

How Sterling uses the register

For a specific company, the register date controls the answer because it can reflect an approved extension, an accounting-reference-date change, or a correction absent from generic inputs. Sterling preserves any disagreement instead of overwriting either fact.

The public wiki contains the rule and field semantics, never a company's record. A registered date is a private customer-specific operational fact. If the observation is stale, Sterling says to refresh it before relying on a changed deadline.

Related concepts

• Company accounts filing deadlines

• Confirmation statement deadlines

Linked from

• Company accounts filing deadlines

• Confirmation statement deadlines

Sources

• Companies House Public Data API company profile resource — accounts.next_accounts.due_on; confirmation_statement.next_due; confirmation_statement.next_made_up_to. Official guidance. Link-and-cite; publisher-hosted.

• Accounts and tax returns for private limited companies — Deadlines for filing your company accounts. Official guidance.

• Filing your company's confirmation statement — When your confirmation statement is due; changing the confirmation date. Official guidance.

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Knowledge version: sterling-knowledge@2026-09-11.7. Last checked 11 September 2026.