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Scottish consumers are facing a difficult 2017 of higher prices and lower wage growth following the collapse in the value of sterling, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants BDO.

Judith Howson Judith Howson, Business Recovery Manager at French Duncan, provides some background on the new legislation and what it means for Scotland.

Wealth manager Rowan Dartington has announced that it is expanding to Scotland with the appointment of investment manager Peter Roper in Edinburgh.

The results of a survey of members of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) and the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) have strengthened the two bodies’ concern that the timescale for implementing compulsory digital record keeping is unrealistic and must be delayed.

Sandy Begbie Edinburgh based insurance giant Standard Life has announced that it will be implementing the new hourly rates for the real Living Wage from this month, well ahead of the May 2017 deadline.

Susan Deacon Professor Susan Deacon, Chair of the Institute of Directors, this morning urged Scottish business leaders to step up to the plate during the greatest upheaval and uncertainty of recent times, and steer their companies and organisations through the unfolding climate of political and cons

Bearsden Choir performs. McCrea Financial Services has celebrated its support for a major new project which has given hundreds of children across Glasgow the opportunity to perform with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s orchestra.

Despite take-up in Edinburgh and Glasgow city centres in Q3 2016 being well down on the five-year quarterly average, leading real estate advisory firm Bilfinger GVA is optimistic that the market will recover from the post-Brexit downturn.

Philip Simpson In the Chambers and Partners annual survey of the UK legal profession, Philip Simpson QC, of Terra Firma Chambers in Edinburgh and Old Square Tax Chambers in London, has been ranked band 1 for tax advice and litigation.

With Black Friday just three weeks away, new research has revealed that the American shopping phenomenon is now fully engrained in British shopping culture, with Scots holding-off big purchases since the summer to snap up a bargain.

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) across Scotland are being given the chance to enlist the services of an industry expert to assist them with a cyber security strategy.

The Hyperion Development team Hyperion Development, a small University of Edinburgh start-up company which provides scalable software development and computer science education internationally, has won a competitive ‘social impact award’ of $150,000 cash, plus a further $60,000 support grant fro

An Aberdeen pharmacist who admitted forging prescriptions in a VAT fraud of more than £200,000 has been jailed.

A Dundee woman who funded her “extravagant lifestyle” through the embezzlement of £64,000 from the Dundee firm where she worked has been hit with a 10-year Bankruptcy Restrictions Order (BRO) by the Accountancy in Bankruptcy.

Benny Higgins Tesco Bank's chief executive Benny Higgins has said he is "very hopeful" customers would be refunded within 24 hours after about 40,000 of its accounts saw suspicious transactions over the weekend, of which half had money taken.