Producing micro/abridged accounts statement myself

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Situation: I have a limited company and I am the only employee - set up as I was invited to work as a consultant on a project that required me to operate as a limited company. I actually only ended up working for two months and my company is now dormant.

My accounts are now due and I'm loathe to pay an accountant when I only worked for two months, had no financial complications, my accounts are very simple - I received money twice and spent nothing.

According to gov.uk I can submit micro/abridged accounts, and I see from looking at other similars on Companies House that these account statements all follow the same template so there must be a way of producing them like this.

Any recommendation of website or software or app I can use to produce these micro accounts myself?

(Yes, I have left this to the last-minute)

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Filing micro accounts is pretty straightforward, but you will need your companies house registration / login details. If you’ve filed an annual return you’ll have these anyway.

If you received money twice and spent nothing, does that mean that you haven’t taken anything out of the company? What about any tax due on the profits

A micro accounts submission is just the balance sheet, in a relatively summary form. So I expect the format that your accounts package generates is sufficient. Attached are a couple of screenshots:

Have you used bookkeeping software?
It is easier to convert to micro accounts from the balance sheet report.

You have to account for any tax and any money you've taken out of the company and if you have bought any equipment, there will be depreciation.

If you haven't used software, you'll have to construct the balance sheet yourself which obviously isn't impossible but will take a bit more thought.

You also will have to submit a corporation tax return.

How are you planning to file the corporation tax return?

CT return can be done online too via the government gateway login for the company.

There's the option to joint file.

Thanks all for the advice and suggestions. I thought it would be a lot more straightforward than it seems to be so I'm conceding defeat and am handing it over to an accountant to make sure it's done properly!

Seems that actually adding the details on companies house website is straightforward but I want to make sure the accounting and tax is done properly.

I thought it would be straightforward because I only worked two months. I was invited to be a management consultant on a project that required me to set up as a limited company. After two months the project folded and I moved on to another job where I was employed and salaried instead.

So my company received two payments in, and I paid nothing out - no expenses as I worked from home, no travel, no new equipment needed, didn't withdraw a salary, the money has sat there ever since. I thought at some point in near-ish future I would go back into consulting and operate through the company I set up again.

But seems that a professional accountant is the way forward!