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Scottish estate agency and lettings group Lomond has announced the completion of four acquisitions following the recent announcement of its merger with Linley & Simpson. Two of the businesses joining the Lomond group, Pad Residential and Allison & Co, are based in Manchester and the remainin

Three new funds worth £7.3 million to support businesses uniquely affected by the coronavirus pandemic will launch this week. From today, local authorities will start to approach brewers, travel agents and indoor football centres inviting them to claim grants of £10,000 or £25,000.

Cash machine use in Scotland has plummetted by more than a third during the coronavirus pandemic, renewing concerns about the future of cash. New figures released by Link have revealed that Scotland has seen the sharpest drop in cash machine us in the UK. The decline is thought to be linked to tough

Scotland’s GDP is provisionally estimated to have fallen by 1.4% in November, as restrictions on economic activity were extended or reintroduced across large parts of the country. This is the first fall in GDP after six months of growth following the easing of the first lockdown in 2020. Outpu

The British accounting and tax system is the 11th most complex in Europe, a new report published by TMF Group, a multinational provider of professional services, reveals – making the country a trickier proposition for accountants than Russia, France or Germany. The report, entitled ‘Acco

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has applied to the Secretary of State for Business to give up its status as a recognised professional body for insolvency practitioners. On 20 February 2019, ACCA asked the Secretary of State to consider the request to cease to be a Recognise

Pensions and investment manager M&G has reasserted its commitment to Scotland by taking on a 20-year-lease on an office complex in Stirling. The new Kildean complex will provide an office base for around 700 employees who work for the group’s Prudential and M&G businesses on the Craigf

The move to homeworking and a decline in demand for short-stay Airbnb lets, as well as worries about Covid rates in urban areas, are thought to have contributed to rents plummetting in Edinburgh.

A couple who famously pretended that their six-year-old son was trapped in a runaway weather balloon have been pardoned.

Corporate insolvency numbers (liquidations and receiverships) in Scotland for the whole of 2020 were 40% lower than in 2019, at 592 (2020) against 981 (2019), according to insolvency and restructuring trade body R3. The number of corporate insolvencies (liquidations and receiverships) in Scotla

Health agencies around the world could soon have a better understanding of diet and allergy trends thanks to an innovative new partnership between The Data Lab, Scotland’s Innovation Centre for data and artificial intelligence, Robert Gordon University and LiberEat – the Scottish company

The Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has appointed a trio of international aquaculture experts to its board, bringing a combined 80 years of experience to the leadership team. Alan Sutherland, marine director at the Scottish Salmon Company, Alan Tinch, technical director of Benchmark Ge

Moray-based accountancy firm Goldwells has expanded its Moray operations with the appointment of Ranald MacDonald. Mr MacDonald has joined Goldwells Elgin at its Wards Road office in the city centre and will share his time between Goldwells’ Elgin and Buckie branches.

Stuart Law, payroll director at Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB), discusses the importance of payroll technology in a business. Rapidly advancing technology in the digital age means organisations are increasingly moving their technology away from Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)-based systems t

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) have issued a joint statement reminding companies that extended financial information timelines continue to apply. Public policy interventions made in 2020 provided more time for the work necessary to ensure that publish