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Chelsea Robertson receives the Caithness Glass Trophy with Professor Elizabeth Gammie, Head of Aberdeen Business School, and John Black of AAB. Aberdeen accountancy firm Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP, one, sponsors of The Robert Gordon University Best Final Year Student in Accounting and Finance

John Macintosh and Graeme Roy Deloitte and the University of Strathclyde’s Fraser of Allander Institute have agreed a partnership to provide businesses with enhanced insights into the Scottish economy.

Caroline Gardner Scotland's Auditor General Caroline Gardner has spoken to the Sunday Herald about her journey from a west London council estate to a top role overseeing the accounts of over 200 public organisations.

Business advisory firm FRP Advisory has been appointed administrators of an Edinburgh-based business which was once the UK's largest payday lender. Anthony Collier and Tom MacLennan, partners at FRP Advisory, have been appointed as joint administrators to Cheque Centres Limited, which last year clos

New analysis by BBC Scotland has suggested that some Scots could take up to ten years to save up for the deposit for their first home. According to BBC Scotland, a person on typical wages saving 10 per cent of their take-home pay a month could take almost eight years to save up a 10 per cent deposit

Tom Craig Scotland's 100 most profitable family-owned businesses generated a combined £1 billion of pre-tax profits last year, The Herald reports.

Stuart Houston A Glasgow-based chain of hotels has called for the recommendations of the independent Barclay Review of business rates to be adopted by the Scottish Government.

Richard Murphy An independent Scotland could "fix the inefficiencies and large scale abuses of the UK tax system", according to a report from the pro-independence Common Weal think tank.

Burger King has unexpectedly entered the highly-competitive cryptocurrency market by setting up a new digital currency in Russia. Customers at Burger King's restaurants in Russia will receive one WhopperCoin for every rouble they spend in the store, with a Whopper burger redeemable for 1,700 Whopper

Jim Pettigrew Scottish finance veteran Jim Pettigrew has been appointed senior independent director of Rathbone Brothers following his appointment as a non-executive director in March, Citywire reports.

Alan Broome A new emergency accounting firm has chosen Edinburgh as the location for its first operation.

Lloyds Banking Group has been compelled to paid back a £1000 penalty it slapped on a retired couple after they transfered their savings between two of its own subsidiaries just four days too early.

Stephen Boyle Scotland’s latest Quarterly National Accounts, announced today by Scotland’s Chief Statistician, show that during the first quarter of the year Scotland's onshore GDP grew by 0.7 per cent in real terms, based on 2014 weights.

Philip Rodney Scottish law firm Burness Paull has seen profits dip from 2015/16's £22.5 million to £22 million.

Childcare provided for free by relatives is giving an approximate £2832 annual boost to Scottish families, according to the latest ‘How Scotland Lives’ research from Bank of Scotland.