chris-trotter / companies-house-excel-custom-functions

Excel custom functions to obtain company house information

Excel Custom Functions for querying Companies House

This project adds custom functions to excel that allows for querying company data from the United Kingdom's Company House API.

Current query functions

• =COMPANY.ACCOUNTINGDATE - Company's accounting date
• =COMPANY.NAME - Company's name
• =COMPANY.REGADDRESS - Company's registered address
• =COMPANY.LIQUIDATED - Company's liquidation status
• =COMPANY.SICCODES - Company's registered SIC Codes
• =COMPANY.OVERDUESTATUS - Status of company's accounts
• =COMPANY.INCORPORATIONDATE - Date of company's incorporation
• =COMPANY.COMPANYSTATUS - Company's current status
• =COMPANY.DIRECTORS - Company's directors' names
• =COMPANY.SIGCONTROL - Company's significant controlling persons' names
• =COMPANY.LASTMEMBERSLIST - Date of company's last members list submission

To use the project

Follow these instructions to use this custom function sample add-in:

1. Publish the code files (HTML, JS, and JSON) to localhost.
2. Replace http://127.0.0.1:8080 in the manifest file (there are 4 occurrences) with the URL you used, if needed (you might be using a different port number).
3. Sideload the manifest (Companies-House.yml) using the instructions found at https://aka.ms/sideload-addins.
4. Test a custom function by entering =COMPANY.NAME and a company number (e.g. NI615002) in a cell.