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Norwegian company annual accounts (årsregnskap)

A Norwegian company's annual accounts (årsregnskap) are public. They are searched, viewed, or ordered from the Register of Company Accounts (Regnskapsregisteret) at brreg.no, and include the profit and loss statement, balance sheet, notes, and the directors' report.

Jurisdiction: Norway · Verified against Brønnøysundregistrene (Regnskapsregisteret) as of 2026-06-28

Where filed accounts live

Approved årsregnskap are filed with the Register of Company Accounts (Regnskapsregisteret), one of the central registers run by Brønnøysundregistrene. Anyone can search, view, or order a company's filed accounts from brreg.no — Norwegian company financials are public by design.

The filing deadline

Annual accounts must reach the Register of Company Accounts by 31 July; filing later triggers a daily late fee (forsinkelsesgebyr) that accrues from 1 August.

Tracking a portfolio by hand

The registry has no watch-list concept and sends no notification when a new årsregnskap lands. Manual tracking means keeping your own list of organisasjonsnummer, re-searching each company in Regnskapsregisteret on a self-imposed schedule, opening each new filing, comparing key figures (revenue, result, balance-sheet total) against last time, and maintaining the history in your own spreadsheet.

Programmatic alternative

Apier reads the latest filed accounts on demand through the company accounts endpoint, and the change-archive plus webhook subscriptions push an HMAC-signed accounts.updated event the moment new accounts are filed — replacing the polling loop.

Use cases

  • Read a counterparty's latest filed annual accounts before extending credit
  • Watch a portfolio for newly filed accounts without polling Regnskapsregisteret
  • Confirm whether a company has filed at all — a missing filing is itself a distress signal

Requirements

  • The company's 9-digit organisasjonsnummer
  • An Apier API key with the read:brreg scope; webhook subscriptions additionally need subscribe:webhooks

Authentication

Method: api_key · Scopes: read:brreg, subscribe:webhooks

Reading accounts is a Category B company-data read (read:brreg). Subscribing to accounts.updated webhook events requires the subscribe:webhooks scope on the same key.

Common errors

  • COMPANY_NOT_FOUND

    The organisasjonsnummer was not found in Brønnøysund.

    Fix: Verify the 9-digit number or resolve it by name via company search.

  • UPSTREAM_UNAVAILABLE

    The government registry API is unreachable.

    Fix: Wait and retry with backoff — this resolves without human intervention.

Related topics

Related APIs

Capability ids — resolve each against the machine-readable manifest at /api/v1/capabilities for the endpoint, auth mode, and tier.

  • company.accounts
  • company.filing_history
  • changes.query
  • subscriptions.create

Related MCP tools

Registered tools on the Apier MCP server.

  • get_company_accounts
  • get_company_filing_history
  • list_changes