Business accounts statistics

Request an extension of the deadline for: Group 0, Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 5.

It is important that your report contains:

• Items 1 to 19 from the income statement, such as revenue, cost of sales, rent, cost for subcontracting and operational leasing. You can find these data in the specifications to either the internal annual financial report or your annual tax report.
• Balance data, which can be found in your annual financial report.
• This year’s investments, which can be found in either your annual financial report, the internal annual financial report or the annual tax report. You can find instructions on where to find and how to calculate your investment disposals, in the reporting form on Virk.dk (in Danish).
• If your company is a parent company, you should only report data for the parent company - not consolidated financial data and not for the whole group.
• Companies with a staggered financial year need to report for the financial year that has ended between 1st of May 2022 and 30th of April 2023. Read more here: Survey deadlines.

Overview of the questions in the survey

You can download an overview of all the questions in the survey - as a draft or as a preparation of your report.

See all of the questions: Business Accounts Statistics 2022 - (PDF - in Danish).

Typical time spent per report is approximately 1 hour

Companies can voluntarily state the time spent in the reporting solution. Companies typically spend approximately 1 hour on this report – including access, provision of information, data entry and possible support.

On Virk.dk, you can choose between the following reporting methods:

• Online form or, if necessary, an upload of supporting documents.
• Upload of an XBRL file (DST's taxonomy).

See all of the questions: Business Accounts Statistics 2022 - (PDF - in Danish).

Reporting via an online form or an upload of supporting documents

You can report by manually entering the data into the online form or by uploading supporting documents (the internal annual financial report or the annual tax report):  Quick guide: Upload of the internal annual financial report - (PDF- in Danish).

Some items in the online form might be pre-filled with data from your annual financial report that is submitted to the Danish Business Authority:  Information on pre-filled items - (PDF - in Danish).

Start reporting

Companies with fewer than 50 full-time equivalents can, as an exception, report by uploading the internal annual financial report or the annual tax report. Please refer to the file upload instructions - in Danish.

NOTE: Companies with more than 50 full-time equivalents CANNOT make a valid report via upload. Companies must use the online form.

Reporting via upload of an XBRL file (DST's taxonomy)

Report to the Business Accounts Statistics using an XBRL format. It is important that you use DST's taxonomy. The annual financial report, that is submitted to the Danish Business Authority, cannot be used. For more information, contact your accountant or your software provider.

Upload an XBRL file

XBRL template and guide - English/Danish - (Excel).

Proxy agreement

A proxy agreement must be established, if your accountant reports on your behalf. You can read about the agreement here:

Establish a proxy agreement, if your accountant repots on your behalf (in Danish).

Information security and data confidentiality

Read about information security and data confidentiality.

Reporting is mandatory by law.

EU legislation obliges Denmark to produce a range of business statistics.

Act on Statistics Denmark, Section 8-12a obliges companies to report data for statistical use.

The number of companies required to report

Approximately 9.000 companies are required to report every year.

How are the companies selected?

Any company that has 0-49 full time employees may be included in the sample. Companies have to report for a minimum of 2 years, after which there may be a break from reporting based on the company’s industry and the company’s size.

Larger companies must participate every year. Larger companies are distinguished by either having 50+ full time employees or a yearly revenue (incl. VAT) of at least 200M DKK or higher.

Agriculture, fishing, financial institutions, insurance, social housing, public administration etc. are not included in these statistics.