Retrieving financial data

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Hi,

I am now writing a thesis at Imperial College on distressed companies in the UK (CVA, CVL…)

I am looking for a technique to retrieve asset and liability figures for a set of companies from the Companies House website.

The public APIs provide a lot of non-financial information, but no accounting data from what I understand.

Is there a way to query the site to retrieve the latest filings figures

Many thanks for your advice,

Tony

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@tony_fonda

Companies are required to file accounts on a annual basis, which will contain financial information. Accounts filed electronically are available in XBRL/iXBRL format with a scanned PDF image available for those filing on paper.

The accounts data can be downloaded through the filing history API, with documentation as follows:

Alternatively, bulk downloads of XBRL accounts are available: Companies House

Hope this helps

Thanks,

@mfairhurst

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Hi,

I’ve looked through several pdf documents from filing history in categories annual-return and capital, but couldn’t find balance reports.
I need at least cash flows volume, assets and liabilities of the company.

Which category of documents should search to get this information?

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