Alaska
These are the reports that Alaskan entities must file every other year.
What are Biennial Reports?
This is the most common document listing referable roles for Arizona corporations.
What are Annual Reports?
This is the document most used for California.
What are Statements of Information?
This page contains all information an analyst will need for most cases.
What is Entity Information/ SOS Front Page?
This is the most common document used for research in Idaho.
What is Annual Report?
This is the date in the upper right corner of biennial reports.
What is a file date?
These types of entities are not required to file Annual Reports.
What are LLCs?
Entities with an _____ can cause issues with the California database search engine
What is an ampersand?
The ____ section contains a list of all _____ filed by the entity. These will not be available to view without paying a fee.
What are annual filings?
These dates are listed in the upper right-hand corner of most reports
What are filing dates?
Roles that cannot be referred unless they have 5% or more ownership.
What are members, owners or shareholders?
This is a role that may appear as an entity name, followed by a date and the name of a person. In these cases, the analyst should only be concerned with the name of the trust.
What is a trustee?
To view the entities filings, analysts will select this button on the information sidebar.
What is view history?
This status that does not mean that the entity is inactive.
What is "delinquent", "1", or "2"?
Officer information is not available on the results page. Click on this to obtain a list of filings.
What is View History?
This means that the entity has failed to submit required filings, such as biennial reports, or has unpaid fees, jeopardizing its good standing, however it is still active.
What is a status of non-compliant?
Analyst may come across instances where the Filing History Page contains no documents. In theses instances, analyst should check the "_______" section on the SOS Entity Information Page.
These entities are not required to file a Statements of Information as they do not register with the Secretary of State.
What are Sole proprietorships and general partnerships?
If the annual report is older than 5 years, but there is a recent dissolution document, the outcome reason is this.
What is no a4 roles?
Any document that starts with this can remove this wording in the document naming convention.
What is Amendment to?
A ___ status means the entity has ____ with another and no longer exists as a separate entity. This does not mean that they are necessarily inactive. Documents must be reviewed to determine if the entity is inactive.
What is Merged?
Analysts may see _____ on the filing history page. They are not publicly available. These documents should be ignored.
What are Records Requests?
These entities may become active again once all taxes are paid and/or documents are filed.
What is Suspended?
Hawaii's site conveniently allows the analyst to download the Entity Information Page in this format by using the button found at the top of the General Info section.
What is PDF?
If the entity is listed as an owner followed by this, analysts should compare this to the information in PECOS.
What is an individuals name?