This update sees the introduction of a much requested feature. You can now speedily produce prepopulated board minutes to approve company accounts, even when those accounts have not been created or filed using Inform Direct. Our ongoing commitment to add to and improve the company documents we offer means you can now use Inform Direct to produce over 400 template documents, supporting a huge range of company secretarial transactions.
Earlier this month we also launched an API integration allowing you to connect and synchronise your external systems to Inform Direct.
Produce impressive company documents in Inform Direct
Inform Direct produces an enormous range of minutes, resolutions, notices, forms, letters and other documents - all at the touch of a button.
Lots of flexibility
You can choose to produce prepopulated board minutes and/or a written directors’ resolution to approve:
- Audit-exempt or audited accounts
- Most company accounts types, including dormant company, micro-entity, small and medium company accounts.
- Accounts you have just filed, or are about to file, or even accounts that were filed several years ago.
This new feature also covers most company types, although it is not available to Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) or CICs.
Where to find this new feature
You can find this new feature by clicking on the blue ‘Prepare & file accounts’ button on your company dashboard page. This will take you to the ‘Company accounts filing options’ page, from where you can select the new ‘Produce board minutes/resolution to approve accounts’ radio button (indicated by the red outline in the image below):
Select the documents you wish to produce
You can choose to produce board minutes and/or a written directors’ resolution to approve audit-exempt or audited company accounts:
Prepopulated editable word document
The prepopulated board minutes and/or written directors’ resolution will be saved as editable word documents to the company’s Document Library.
Other improvements
We’ve also listened to your feedback and improved the operation of the ‘Company accounts filing options’ screen:
- A new section of text at the top of the screen advises you of the date the next set of accounts are due to be filed by, and the earliest date that you can submit these accounts to Companies House.
- If it is too early to file the accounts with Companies House, the text ‘Not until {earliest filing date}‘ will display instead of the radio button.
- You can now access the ‘Change accounting reference date’ process from this page.
- And of course, if you wish to produce prepopulated board minutes to approve company accounts, this step is your starting point.
Please let us know your feedback
Please do get in touch to let us know how you are finding our new features. We’d also love to hear about other enhancements or feature recommendations that would improve Inform Direct for you.
Our commitment to continuously improving Inform Direct can be seen in our timeline of updates.
Our streamlined wizard for efficient micro-entity accounts production means it is easy to get company accounts right first time.