Company registration number 11250674 (England and Wales)
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
COMPANY INFORMATION
Directors
J Madden
P Barth
Secretary
Entity Central Corporate Services (UK) Limited
Company number
11250674
Registered office
C/O Cogency Global (UK) Limited
6 Lloyds Avenue
Suite 4CL
London
EC3N 3AX
Auditor
Mercer & Hole LLP
21 Lombard Street
London
EC3V 9AH
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
CONTENTS
Page
Directors' report
1
Directors' responsibilities statement
2
Independent auditor's report
3 - 5
Income statement
6
Statement of financial position
7
Statement of changes in equity
8
Notes to the financial statements
9 - 13
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
DIRECTORS' REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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The directors present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.
Principal activities
In August 2020, the company ceased trading. The Company will continue to collect customer receivables as they fall due.
Results and dividends
The results for the year are set out on page 6.
No ordinary dividends were paid. The directors do no recommend payment of a final dividend.
Directors
The directors who held office during the year and up to the date of signature of the financial statements were as follows:
J Madden
P Barth
Auditor
The auditor, Mercer & Hole LLP, is deemed to be reappointed under section 487(2) of the Companies Act 2006.
Statement of disclosure to auditor
So far as each person who was a director at the date of approving this report is aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company’s auditor is unaware. Additionally, the directors individually have taken all the necessary steps that they ought to have taken as directors in order to make themselves aware of all relevant audit information and to establish that the company’s auditor is aware of that information.
Small companies exemption
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entitled to the small companies exemption.
On behalf of the board
P Barth
Director
5 December 2025
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITIES STATEMENT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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The directors are responsible for preparing the annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
United Kingdom company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law, the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law, the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company and of the profit or loss of the company for that period.
In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:
select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in business.
The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the company’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT
TO THE MEMBERS OF FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
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Opinion
We have audited the financial statements of Flatiron School UK Limited (the 'company') for the year ended 31 December 2024 which comprise the income statement, the statement of financial position, the statement of changes in equity and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
In our opinion the financial statements:
give a true and fair view of the state of the company's affairs as at 31 December 2024 and of its loss for the year then ended;
have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and
have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
Emphasis of matter - Non-going concern basis of accounting
We draw attention to note 1.2 of the financial statements, which describes the preparation of the financial statements on a non-going concern basis. As described in note 1.2, the company ceased trading in a prior year and therefore the directors have concluded that it is no longer appropriate to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis. Our opinion is not modified in this respect.
The other information comprises the information included in the annual report other than the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The directors are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the course of the audit, or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.
We have nothing to report in this regard.
Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006
In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of our audit:
the information given in the directors' report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and
the directors' report has been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT (CONTINUED)
TO THE MEMBERS OF FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
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Matters on which we are required to report by exception
In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the directors' report.
We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:
adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
certain disclosures of directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or
we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.
Responsibilities of directors
As explained more fully in the directors' responsibilities statement, the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor's report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.
The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud, is detailed below.
Explanation as to what extent the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud
We gained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework applicable to the company and the industry in which it operates and considered the risk of acts by the company that were contrary to applicable laws and regulations, including fraud. These included, but were not limited to, the Companies Act 2006 and tax legislation.
We evaluated management's incentives and opportunities for fraudulent manipulation of the financial statements and the financial report (including the risk of override of controls), and determined that the principal risks were related to posting inappropriate entries including journals to overstate revenue or understate expenditure and management bias in accounting estimates.
Audit procedures performed by the engagement team included:
discussions with management, including considerations of known or suspected instances of non- compliance with laws and regulations and fraud;
gaining an understanding of management's controls designed to prevent and detect irregularities; and
identifying and testing journal entries.
Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements in the financial statements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. For example, the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations (irregularities) is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely the inherently limited procedures required by auditing standards would identify it. In addition, as with any audit, there remained a higher risk of non-detection of irregularities, as these may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal controls. We are not responsible for preventing non- compliance and cannot be expected to detect non-compliance with all laws and regulations.
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT (CONTINUED)
TO THE MEMBERS OF FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
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A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council's website at: https://www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor's report.
This report is made solely to the company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and the company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
Andrew Turner (Senior Statutory Auditor)
For and on behalf of Mercer & Hole LLP
8 December 2025
Chartered Accountants
Statutory Auditor
21 Lombard Street
London
EC3V 9AH
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
INCOME STATEMENT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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2024
2023
Notes
$
$
Administrative expenses
(1,938,103)
(32,810)
Tax on loss
5
Loss and total comprehensive income for the financial year
(1,938,103)
(32,810)
The results of the current year and the prior year relate to discontinued operations.
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
AS AT
31 DECEMBER 2024
31 December 2024
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2024
2023
Notes
$
$
$
$
Current assets
Trade and other receivables
6
175,547
2,183,047
Cash and cash equivalents
2,131
143,881
177,678
2,326,928
Current liabilities
7
(56,788)
(267,935)
Net current assets
120,890
2,058,993
Total assets less current liabilities
120,890
2,058,993
Equity
Called up share capital
9
1
1
Retained earnings
120,889
2,058,992
Total equity
120,890
2,058,993
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
The financial statements were approved by the board of directors and authorised for issue on 5 December 2025 and are signed on its behalf by:
P Barth
Director
Company registration number 11250674 (England and Wales)
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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Share capital
Retained earnings
Total
$
$
$
Balance at 1 January 2023
1
2,091,802
2,091,803
Year ended 31 December 2023:
Loss and total comprehensive income
-
(32,810)
(32,810)
Balance at 31 December 2023
1
2,058,992
2,058,993
Year ended 31 December 2024:
Loss and total comprehensive income
-
(1,938,103)
(1,938,103)
Balance at 31 December 2024
1
120,889
120,890
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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1
Accounting policies
Company information
Flatiron School UK Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is C/O Cogency Global (UK) Limited, 6 Lloyds Avenue, Suite 4CL, London, EC3N 3AX. The company's principal activities and nature of its operations was to provide software engineering, data science and design UX/UI courses in the UK to train people for careers in technology. The company ceased trading in 2020.
1.1
Basis of preparation
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 101 Reduced Disclosure Framework (FRS 101) and in accordance with applicable accounting standards.
The financial statements are prepared in dollars, which is the functional currency of the company. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest $.
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.
As permitted by FRS 101, the company has taken advantage of the following disclosure exemptions from the requirements of IFRS:
inclusion of an explicit and unreserved statement of compliance with IFRS;
presentation of a statement of cash flows and related notes;
disclosure of the objectives, policies and processes for managing capital;
disclosure of the categories of financial instrument and the nature and extent of risks arising on these financial instruments;
the effect of financial instruments on the statement of comprehensive income;
comparative period reconciliations for the number of shares outstanding;
disclosure of the future impact of new International Financial Reporting Standards in issue but not yet effective at the reporting date; and
related party disclosures for transactions with the parent or wholly owned members of the group.
Flatiron School UK Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Flatiron Holdings, Inc., and the results of Flatiron School UK Limited are included in the consolidated financial statements of Flatiron Holdings, Inc.
1.2
Going concern
In April 2020, the decision was taken to close down the Flatiron campus in the third quarter of 2020. The company ceased trading in the year ended 31 December 2020 as planned. Therefore the directors have prepared the accounts on a non-going concern basis. All assets and liabilities have been classified as current. No other adjustments have been made to the financial statements as a result of this application of a non-going concern basis. The company continues to collect receivables as they fall due.
1.3
Cash and cash equivalents
Cash and cash equivalents include cash in hand, deposits held at call with banks, other short-term liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less, and bank overdrafts. Bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings in current liabilities.
1.4
Financial assets
Financial assets are recognised in the company's statement of financial position when the company becomes party to the contractual provisions of the instrument. Financial assets are classified into specified categories, depending on the nature and purpose of the financial assets.
At initial recognition, financial assets classified as fair value through profit and loss are measured at fair value and any transaction costs are recognised in profit or loss. Financial assets not classified as fair value through profit and loss are initially measured at fair value plus transaction costs.
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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Financial assets at fair value through profit or loss
When any of the above-mentioned conditions for classification of financial assets is not met, a financial asset is classified as measured at fair value through profit or loss. Financial assets measured at fair value through profit or loss are recognized initially at fair value and any transaction costs are recognised in profit or loss when incurred. A gain or loss on a financial asset measured at fair value through profit or loss is recognised in profit or loss, and is included within finance income or finance costs in the statement of income for the reporting period in which it arises.
Financial assets held at amortised cost
Financial instruments are classified as financial assets measured at amortised cost where the objective is to hold these assets in order to collect contractual cash flows, and the contractual cash flows are solely payments of principal and interest. They arise principally from the provision of goods and services to customers (eg trade receivables). They are initially recognised at fair value plus transaction costs directly attributable to their acquisition or issue, and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest rate method, less provision for impairment where necessary.
Financial assets at fair value through other comprehensive income
Debt instruments are classified as financial assets measured at fair value through other comprehensive income where the financial assets are held within the company’s business model whose objective is achieved by both collecting contractual cash flows and selling financial assets, and the contractual terms of the financial asset give rise on specified dates to cash flows that are solely payments of principal and interest on the principal amount outstanding.
A debt instrument measured at fair value through other comprehensive income is recognised initially at fair value plus transaction costs directly attributable to the asset. After initial recognition, each asset is measured at fair value, with changes in fair value included in other comprehensive income. Accumulated gains or losses recognised through other comprehensive income are directly transferred to profit or loss when the debt instrument is derecognised.
The company has made an irrevocable election to recognize changes in fair value of investments in equity instruments through other comprehensive income, not through profit or loss. A gain or loss from fair value changes will be shown in other comprehensive income and will not be reclassified subsequently to profit or loss. Equity instruments measured at fair value through other comprehensive income are recognized initially at fair value plus transaction cost directly attributable to the asset. After initial recognition, each asset is measured at fair value, with changes in fair value included in other comprehensive income. Accumulated gains or losses recognized through other comprehensive income are directly transferred to retained earnings when the equity instrument is derecognized or its fair value substantially decreased. Dividends are recognized as finance income in profit or loss.
Impairment of financial assets
Financial assets carried at amortised cost and FVOCI ("Fair Value through Other Comprehensive Income") are assessed for indicators of impairment at each reporting end date.
The expected credit losses associated with these assets are estimated on a forward-looking basis. A broad range of information is considered when assessing credit risk and measuring expected credit losses, including past events, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts that affect the expected collectability of the future cash flows of the instrument.
Derecognition of financial assets
Financial assets are derecognised only when the contractual rights to the cash flows from the asset expire, or when it transfers the financial asset and substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership to another entity.
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
1
Accounting policies
(Continued)
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1.5
Financial liabilities
The company recognises financial debt when the company becomes a party to the contractual provisions of the instruments. Financial liabilities are classified as either 'financial liabilities at fair value through profit or loss' or 'other financial liabilities'.
Other financial liabilities
Other financial liabilities, including borrowings, trade payables and other short-term monetary liabilities, are initially measured at fair value net of transaction costs directly attributable to the issuance of the financial liability. They are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method. For the purposes of each financial liability, interest expense includes initial transaction costs and any premium payable on redemption, as well as any interest or coupon payable while the liability is outstanding.
Derecognition of financial liabilities
Financial liabilities are derecognised when, and only when, the company’s obligations are discharged, cancelled, or they expire.
1.6
Equity instruments
Equity instruments issued by the company are recorded at the proceeds received, net of direct issue costs. Dividends payable on equity instruments are recognised as liabilities once they are no longer at the discretion of the company.
1.7
Foreign exchange
Transactions in currencies other than USD are recorded at the rates of exchange prevailing at the dates of the transactions. At each reporting end date, monetary assets and liabilities that are denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated at the rates prevailing on the reporting end date. Gains and losses arising on translation in the period are included in profit or loss.
2
Critical accounting estimates and judgements
In the application of the company’s accounting policies, the directors are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised, if the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods if the revision affects both current and future periods.
The estimates and assumptions which have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amount of assets and liabilities are outlined below:
Bad Debt Provision
Management makes judgements on the number of students that will complete the courses provided by the Company, the number of students that will trigger repayments clauses in their agreements and the number of students who will not achieve a sufficient salary to repay their tuition fees. A provision of $806,828 (2023: $904,382) has been applied to receivable balances to cover these scenarios.
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
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3
Operating loss
2024
2023
Operating loss for the year is stated after charging/(crediting):
$
$
Exchange losses
5,144
24,040
4
Employees
The average monthly number of persons (including directors) employed by the company during the year was:
2024
2023
Number
Number
1
1
5
Taxation
2024
2023
$
$
The charge for the year can be reconciled to the loss per the income statement as follows:
2024
2023
$
$
Loss before taxation
(1,938,103)
(32,810)
Expected tax charge based on a corporation tax rate of 0% (2023: 0%)
Tax charged in the financial statements
6
Trade and other receivables
2024
2023
$
$
Trade receivables
939,942
1,093,381
Provision for bad and doubtful debts
(806,828)
(904,382)
133,114
188,999
Corporation tax recoverable
21,089
21,089
VAT recoverable
21,344
-
Amounts owed by fellow group undertakings
1,972,959
175,547
2,183,047
The total trade receivables have been included as current as the financial statements have been prepared on a non-going concern basis but trade receivables of $806,828 are expected to be collected in more than a year from the year-end.
FLATIRON SCHOOL UK LIMITED
NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (CONTINUED)
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024
6
Trade and other receivables
(Continued)
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7
Liabilities
2024
2023
Notes
$
$
Trade and other payables
8
56,788
267,935
8
Trade and other payables
2024
2023
$
$
Amount owed to parent undertaking
240,956
Accruals and deferred income
56,788
26,979
56,788
267,935
9
Share capital
2024
2023
2024
2023
Ordinary share capital
Number
Number
$
$
Issued and fully paid
Ordinary shares of 1p each
100
100
1
1
The Company has one class of ordinary shares which carry no right to fixed income.
10
Related party transactions
The company has a loan agreement with Flatiron School LLC, a fellow group company. At the year end, the company was owed $Nil (2023: $1,972,959).
At the year end, the company owed a fellow group company $Nil (2023: $240,956). This amount is interest free and repayable on demand.
11
Controlling party
The Company's immediate parent company is Flatiron Holdings, Inc, a company incorporated in the USA. The results for Flatiron School UK Limited are consolidated into the financial statements of Flatiron Holdings, Inc. The consolidated financial statements can be obtained from their registered office at 11 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10004.
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