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Staff at a Fife charity working with vulnerable children and their families are to see their work supoorted by a donation from the Edinburgh office of Aberdeen Asset Management’s Charitable Foundation.

Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise, has invested £1.8 million in Glasgow-based Encompass Corporation as part of a £3.6m co-investment with the Sydney based Adcock Private Equity Group.

A new ICAS report produced in partnership with the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has warned that steps need to be taken to ensure the skills needs of the auditor of the future will be met.

Chris Smith Grant Thornton has called for wide ranging reforms, including greater tax simplification, to boost growth in Scotland’s fragile property and construction sector.

Glasgow-based Clydesdale bank has announced the appointment of Timothy Wade and Fiona MacLeod as independent Non-Executive Directors.

A secret meeting that was supposed to end a legal dispute between Royal Bank of Scotland and investors who claim they were misled over the lender’s 2008 £12 billion rights issue has failed to yield an agreement.

The Perth-based venture capital fund manager and investor, Braveheart Investment Group, has declared a positive and profitable start to its financial year. At the company’s annual meeting in London, chairman Jeremy Delmar-Morgan told investors that Braveheart was on track to post a profit for the

Fifteen Scottish-based accountants have been named among ICAS’s 35 Chartered Accountants (CAs) under 35 for 2016.

Confidence among Scotland’s business community is in decline but remains resilient, according to research from business and financial adviser Grant Thornton.

Fifteen Scottish-based accountants have been named among ICAS’s 35 Chartered Accountants (CAs) under 35 for 2016. The global body of finance professionals said the list, which includes entries spanning six continents, recognises “the best and brightest Chartered Accountants who are making a diff

Brodies LLP has become the latest Scottish firm to report positive results as the economic recovery, now threatened by Brexit, takes hold. The firm reports that in its financial year to 30 April 2016 revenues grew by 12.4 per cent to £65.1 million.

Isabel Hudson Edinburgh-based insurance giant Standard Life has confirmed that non-executive director Isabel Hudson, who has served on its board since October 2014, has resigned with immediate effect.

The Crown Office’s five-year investigation into the near collapse of Royal Bank of Scotland, and the rights issue which preceded it, has found "insufficient evidence" to press criminal charges against its disgraced former chief executive Fred Goodwin or any of his colleagues, it has been announced

Bailed-out and scandal-hit Scottish banking giant Royal Bank of Scotland is to ditch the RBS acronym branding that has existed throughout its wretched recent history. The Edinburgh-based bank, which was bailed out by UK taxpayers at a cost of £45 billion in the darkest days of the financial crisis,

Grant Thornton has made a number of promotions across its tax, wealth advisory and marketing & business development departments as part of its growth strategy in Scotland. The global business and financial adviser is currently engaged in a five year strategy aimed at driving up profits and provi