Methodology · v1.1

AFADepositi ASIC (AU)

Filing punctuality + completeness at the Australian ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission — companies register) for {legal_name}. Every Australian company (Pty Ltd, Ltd) is registered with ASIC and lodges its annual review + (for disclosing entities) financial reports → returning absent:not_disclosed is essentially impossible for any company actually incorporated in Australia. EXTRACTION RULES — MANDATORY: (1) search asic.gov.au (ASIC Connect company search) using the company's legal name OR ACN/ABN — the result returns registration date, company status, and lodged annual-review / financial-report dates. (2) cross-check reputable aggregators for the latest lodged financial report + company status. (3) search the company's own "Investor Relations"/"Corporate Governance" page for lodged accounts. Return composite_signal with sub-signals (each 0-100 + source_url): (a) filing_punctuality — how close the last financial report / annual review lodgement is to the statutory deadline (financial report lodged entro 4 months of year-end for disclosing entities, annual review on review date = 60-100; late = 30-60); (b) filing_completeness — richness of the lodged accounts (consolidated + parent financial statements + directors' report + auditor's report = 90+, small-proprietary minimal only = 50); (c) registry_status_active — entity active/registered (active=90, deregistered/in liquidation=20). Return type="absent" reason="no_company_specific_data" ONLY if the entity is verifiably NOT incorporated in Australia. SUB-SIGNAL OBSERVABILITY (anti-fabrication, MANDATORY): registry EXISTENCE/status is almost always verifiable, but the deposited-accounts CONTENT (filing_punctuality / filing_completeness) is frequently paywalled, fee-gated, or simply not deposited for small/private companies. If you cannot OBSERVE the actual deposit dates or document richness from a CITED source, return that sub-signal as null — do NOT estimate or guess a band from the company's size, sector or country, and do NOT treat a paywalled/undisclosed content sub-signal as "low". registry_status_active must be scored ONLY from a POSITIVE registry hit you cite (the status field visible); if you cannot locate the entity in the national registry at all (ambiguous/non-English legal name, homonym, no hit), do NOT default it to active — return it null. Not-found is NOT active. If NO sub-signal could be observed from any cited source, return type="absent" reason="no_company_specific_data" (a genuine content-absence then resolves to a clean not_applicable, never a fabricated composite). Server composite_signal_score.