Filing financial statements
Provide financial statements within 4 months of balance date
Part of: Managed investment schemes
You'll receive email reminders from us when your scheme's audited financial statements are due (within 4 months of the scheme's financial reporting balance date). Once you provide the financial statements to us, you should receive a decision from us within 3 working days. When it's accepted, we'll advise the Financial Markets Authority (FMA).
Who can file financial statements
To file financial statements you must:
- have a RealMe® login
- be a registered user of your organisation's online services account
- have authority to act.
Before you send us your documents
Review your financial statements before providing them to us and make sure you're only including the information that's required.
Once your financial statements have been accepted by us they'll be publicly available on the Disclose Register.
We may need more information
If we're unable to accept the financial statements, for example if they're incomplete, we'll email you.
The 'In progress' section of your Dashboard will show the status of your financial statements as 'Revise'.
You'll have 3 months to make any corrections and return the financial statements to us via your Dashboard to avoid paying the fee twice.
We may not accept for some reason
Make sure you double-check all your information. If your financial statements are rejected, this will mean completing a new application and paying a new registration fee.
Filing financial statements on time
If the financial statements aren't provided on time, we'll place a non-compliance alert against the scheme and will advise FMA that they're overdue.
We can't waive breaches or grant extensions in filing time. If you want to discuss late or overdue filing, contact FMA through their Ask a Question online service.
Changing a scheme balance date
If you want to change your balance date, first you need the approval of the Commissioner of Inland Revenue under Section 41(1)(b) of the Financial Reporting Act 2013.
Once you have the Commissioner's approval, email it to us with a request to change the balance date and we'll update the scheme details.
Email: disclose@companies.govt.nz
Help with financial reporting
The FMA website has information and tools to help with financial reporting requirements and compliance.
More 'Managed investment schemes' guides:
- Managed investment scheme registration process Find out what information and documents you need to provide when registering a scheme.
- Managed investment scheme fees Some online transactions, such as registering a scheme, have a fee attached.
- Keeping managed investment scheme details up to date Find out how to update scheme details and documents.
- Uploading managed investment scheme documents Read our guidelines for preparing and uploading documents including PDS.
- Filing annual reports Find out when you need to file an annual report for a scheme.
- Cancelling managed investment schemes What happens if the FMA cancel's a scheme's registration.
- Managed investment scheme legislative reference guides These guides may assist you to complete your online application to register a scheme.