Educational reference only. Terms are simplified for orientation. Confirm current applicability, forms, deadlines, thresholds, and process details in the linked official source and with a qualified professional.
1. Entity basics
MCA work begins with the correct legal entity and event.
- MCA
- Ministry of Corporate Affairs, the official corporate and LLP ecosystem.
- Company
- A legal-entity form with MCA records and applicable statutory obligations.
- LLP
- Limited Liability Partnership, a separate legal-entity form and MCA workflow context.
- CIN
- Corporate Identity Number associated with a company in MCA records.
- LLPIN
- Identifier associated with an LLP in MCA records.
2. Filing and status terms
Status checks and filings must be tied to entity, period, and current guidance.
- Annual filing status
- An MCA service category for checking annual filing status.
- Event-based filing
- A filing triggered by a specific corporate event rather than a recurring period alone.
- AOC-4
- A common company annual-filing form label; applicability and current process need verification.
- MGT-7
- A common company annual-filing form label; current rules and facts control its use.
- Form 3 / Form 11
- LLP form labels with MCA-hosted filing guidance; do not infer applicability from the name.
3. Authentication and evidence
Digital action needs an approval trail as well as a portal record.
- DSC
- Digital Signature Certificate used for authentication in applicable digital filing workflows.
- Authorised signatory
- The person allowed to take a filing action for the entity in the relevant context.
- Board or partner approval
- An internal authorisation record that may support a corporate action.
- Submitted copy
- The version of a document actually sent to the portal.
- Service request number
- A portal reference that helps identify and trace a service interaction.