It's been a long day, and whichever mental process or processes oversee "putting your finger on things you knew all along" has got strained.  Overloaded by the constant struggle to put your finger on where your employer is, probably.  So it's perhaps forgivable that it takes the old synapses a little time to kick in.<br/><br/>The Registry of Companies, at Companies House, is - as you know and there's no earthly reason for repeating - the official list of every Limited Company in England and Wales, Scotland maintains a separate list for various reasons.  In order for a company to have "Ltd" or "PLC" after its name it has to fulfil various legal requirements.  One of those is being on this register and submitting various details every year - financial statements, records of the company directors, shareholder information where shares are traded, things like that.<br/><br/>For some reason, despite neither Miyo nor Norm being American, they compare it to one of the functions of the SEC (http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html).<br/><br/>The specifics take your tired minds a moment longer to kick in, but you get there in the end.  In 2006, Norm personally prepared that information.  In 2009 it was Miyo.  In other years, though, one of the other accounting staff did it.  Those two years are the only two that were done by either Norm and Miyo.<br/><br/>In short, records that weren't personally prepared by one of the people round the table seem to have disappeared along with the people that prepared them, ones prepared by one of the four of you have stayed present along with the four of you.  There are legal ramifications to not filing this information, and frankly Horners should not have survived the gap in records between 2006 and 2009 or the gap between 2009 and the present day.  Really, if records were submitted in 2006 and not 2007, there should have been no opportunity to submit in 2009 as the company would have been closed down.  Clearly, though, that did not happen.  So it looks like 2007, -08, -10, etc have been removed from the record, not that your colleagues have not done their job.