2. International Good Practices
in Business Registers
Tim Moss
United Kingdom

4. 3.2
10
530,000
235,000,000
240 MILLION
90,000
298,000,000
9981
8.7m

5. Good Practice?
Why?

6. Making Limited
Liability Work

7. The Information
Exchange

10. Who / What is a Company?

12. To make limited liability work we
balance
 The need for integrity with
ease of doing business,
lifting burdens to give
 Corporate transparency

13. Ease of
doing business
Integrity
Transparency
Burdens

14. Integrity
 Complete
 Current
 Correct
– Challenges
Accounts Compliance 99.1%
Annual Return Compliance 98.2%

15. Organisations Companies House
works with on Fraud

16. Ease of doing business
 Better regulation
 Customers insight
 Usability
 Designed for customer needs
Leaving companies free to concentrate on
growing their businesses

21. Transparency
 Data in data out
 Standard formats
 Open
 Linkable
 Reduces burden
 More data
 Global interconnection

23. Open data – accessible and free
 URI
 APP
 XML gateway
 iXBRL bulk service
 Free bulk product
 Data formats: RDF, JSON, XML, CSV,
YAML & HTML
Companies House Open Data:

24. Free Information

25. Free Information

26.  250% - 500% increase
 New uses
 Increases corporate transparency
 Many eyes increases quality
 Strategy for Full Open data
– 2015?
Companies House Open Data:

27. 90,000
99%
130m

28. Current services

29. Companies House Service

30. The future
• Digital
• Current & True
• Open
good practice?