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A survey of Scottish law firms’ finances has shown improving fortunes for smaller law firms.

Aleks Tomczyk Arum, the Edinburgh-headquartered boutique consulting business which provides independent and specialist solutions to the banking, power, water, BPO and financial services sectors, has announced record turnover for the year to the end of June.

Chris Horne Scottish accountancy firm Campbell Dallas has reported a marked increase in turnover of £14 million for the year end to May 2017, a 17 per cent uplift on 2016 (£11.9m), and over 40 per cent increase on 2012 (£9.7m).

Martin Langosch Business advisers and accountants Scott-Moncrieff has appointed Martin Langosch as data analytics director to support the firm’s audit and business technology consulting (BTC) departments.

525 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (Image: Cuthbert White) The 110,000 square feet office building at 525 Ferry Road, Edinburgh, which was formerly home to financial services giant State Street, is set to go on the market as the capital’s largest vacant office space.

A new report has highlighted a clear growth in the number of social enterprises in Scotland and their economic impact.

Scottish accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has made navigating around Scotland’s rich, natural larder a lot easier after producing a new mouth-watering new map of the country.

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.