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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Company registry, statutory accounts?

Also known as: company registry · statutory accounts

Definition 11.1 The Industry: Firms, Roles and Careers · Chapter 11 — Reading a Trading Firm’s Accounts

A company registry is the public register with which a country’s companies and partnerships file their constitution, their officers and owners, and their annual accounts. Statutory accounts are the annual financial statements that the law requires an entity to prepare, have audited unless it is exempt, and file: a balance sheet, a profit and loss account, notes, and the reports of the directors (or members) and of the auditor.

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