Business accounts statistics

The deadline for reporting is 1 July 2024.

If the reporting company is a parent of a business group, only report information related to the parent company. Do not report consolidated data of the business group.

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).
• Internal transactions for some entries, if your company is required to report these.
• 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 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023. Read more here: Survey deadline.

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 a translation of the Business Accounts Statistics 2023 variables from Danish to English (PDF).
See all the questions: Business Accounts Statistics 2023 – big companies (PDF – in Danish).

Why do you need to report internal transactions?

Selected companies (CVR numbers) that are part of the largest and most complex business groups in Denmark are required to report certain internal transactions with selected Danish companies in the group. If your company is required to do so it will be specified in the digital form.

This means that for a number of entries in the form, you are required to report both the total amount and the portion of that total which pertains to internal transactions with the selected companies.

Statistics Denmark requires the information on internal transactions to consolidate the Danish segment of your operations. This is done to both enhance the quality and precision of statistics and fulfill obligations under EU laws. Reporting the internal transactions is thus mandatory according to the Act on Statistics Denmark, Section 8-12a which obliges companies to report data for statistical use.

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.

Click on START REPORTING on the top of the page and report using MitID Erhverv.

Some entries in the digital form may be pre-filled with information from the electronic annual report (XBRL report) that you have reported to the Danish Business Authority.

• When logged in, you can report to multiple statistics and for multiple periods.
• If the reporting process is interrupted, you can save a draft.
• You can reopen and correct submitted reports using MitID Erhverv.

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.