# Company filings

The **Companies House Filings** page in D2K Companies House Lookup shows what
a company has filed at Companies House - accounts,
confirmation statements, changes of director, resolutions, and everything else
on the public record.

Open it with **View Filings** from a company snapshot.

## What the list shows

| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| **Filing Date** | The date Companies House recorded the filing |
| **Filing Type** | The kind of filing - Annual Accounts, Confirmation Statement, Director Appointment and so on. Anything that does not fall into a recognised category shows as Other |
| **Description** | What the filing actually was, in words |
| **Document** | Ticked when there is a PDF you can download |
| **Source Transaction ID** | The Companies House identifier for the filing |

## Download the filed document

Most entries on the register have the actual filed PDF behind them - the
signed accounts, the confirmation statement, the resolution.

1. Select the filing.
2. Choose **Download Document**.

The file is named so you can find it again: registration number, filing date
and what the filing was, for example
`00445790-2026-09-16-Capital-return-purchase-own-shares.pdf`.

The **Document** column tells you before you click. Not every entry has a
document - plenty of register entries genuinely have none - and an entry
without one says so rather than downloading an empty file.

Document downloads are not available in **Sandbox Mode**, because the
Companies House sandbox does not serve filed documents. Turn Sandbox Mode off
on [Companies House Setup](https://docs.d2k.uk/companies-house-lookup/companies-house-setup) to download from the live
register.

## Refresh

**Refresh** always fetches the filing history again from Companies House
rather than reading what is stored, so it is the way to pick up something
filed in the last few minutes. It also fills in the document links for filings
that were recorded before your version of the app supported downloads.

Between refreshes, opening the view may serve filings already recorded, within
the age set by **Cache TTL (Filings)** on [Companies House Setup](https://docs.d2k.uk/companies-house-lookup/companies-house-setup).

## Filings found by the background poll

The list above is a live view of one company, fetched when you open it. It is
separate from the **Companies House Filing Events** list, which is the record
of what the hourly background poll has found for the companies you watch. See
[Filing watches](https://docs.d2k.uk/companies-house-lookup/filing-watches).

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Source: https://docs.d2k.uk/companies-house-lookup/company-filings
Last updated: 2026-10-04