Answer: A UK limited company is a separate legal entity created by registration at Companies House. Once incorporated, Companies House issue a certificate of incorporation and company registration number. These documents signify that the company has been formed in accordance with Companies House regulations.
You can change the company's name at any time but you still keep the company registered number. The assets and liabilities belong to the company not directly to the person(s) owning the company.
The company is owned by its shareholders and run by the directors. This gives the directors Limited Liability. If the company should fail, the directors' personal assets are protected unless they have personally provided guarantees for the company's activities.
Because a company is a separate legal entity, the business continues to trade irrespective of whether the original director(s) remain as part of the company.

Answer: Companies House then aim to respond to electronically filed documents within 3 working hours. Although this is not guaranteed, it does generally mean that if you placed an order before noon on a normal working day, we will have your company incorporated by the end of that same day.
So we aim to sent all Hard Printed copies the latest they day after payment is registered.

Answer: Most names are acceptable to Companies House when forming a limited company, but there are a few exceptions. These exceptions fall into the following categories:
1. Your proposed name must be different from that of a company already incorporated.
2. Certain words like "Group" or "International" must be substantiated by providing evidence of other related companies or companies operating in at least two different countries.
3. Names containing words likely to cause offence are not allowed.
You can use our up to the minute system to check whether your chosen name is similar to any other names already on the Companies House register.
If your chosen name is too similar to another name, that company could object with in 12 months and you may be forced to change your company's name.

Answer: The company must display its name clearly, on all the following:
- all the company's letters;
- all of its notices and other official publications;
-all bills of exchange, promissory notes, endorsements, cheques and orders for money or goods purporting to be signed by, or on behalf of, the company.

Answer: A company accounting reference date is the date in each year to which a company's financial accounts are prepared. The accounting reference date usually ends at the end of a particular month.
The month that is initially selected for your company will be the last day of the month in which the anniversary of incorporation falls. For example, if company registration takes place on 25 September, the accounting reference date will be 30 September.

Answer: You may change your company's accounting reference date by sending Form 225 freely available from us to the Companies House Registrar.
The Form must be submitted during the accounting period affected by the change or during the period allowed for delivering the associated company accounts.

Answer: These are the total number of shares that it is possible for your company to issue. On incorporation the number of authorised shares is usually 1000.
The number of authorised shares is often different from the number of issued shares. Issued shares are those authorised shared that have actually been issued. In terms of who owns the company, the number of issued shares owned will be the determining factor.

Answer: UK limited companies that have not traded or otherwise carried on business for at least three months may apply to Companies House to be struck off the register. Company Dissolution is a service Asap2net are able to carry out on your behalf.

Answer: The company registered office is an address in England or Wales (or Scotland if your company is registered there) where the company's statutory books must be available for inspection and where documents can be delivered to the company.
A company's registered office address must be displayed on all company literature and documents

Answer: If a company wishes to change its registered office address the new address must be notified to Companies House on Form 287.

Answer: If Companies House reject your application we will email you informing you of this. They will tell you why your company registration application was not accepted. You just need to contact us with any amendments and we will resubmit your application to Companies House immediately.