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Aberdeen-based accountancy firm Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP (AAB) has announced that it is to be a corporate sponsor of Sleep in the Park, a nationwide sleep out organised by social enterprise Social Bite, aimed at ending homelessness in Scotland for good. This year’s event is

Eileen Blackburn HMRC will be made a preferred creditor in insolvencies, Chancellor Philip Hammond announced in his budget yesterday, but the decision could lead to an increase in corporate failure numbers, according to a leading Scottish insolvency practitioner.

The Government is being urged to freeze Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) at the forthcoming Budget, after HMRC figures revealed that taxpayers are now paying record amounts of the tax.

Dan Grandage Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) has pledged to procure 100 per cent of electricity in its global offices from renewable sources by 2020 as it marks the first ever Green GB Week.

Martin Gilbert Edinburgh-based global wealth manager Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has been named as manager of the new Global Sustainability Trust, which will invest primarily in private market investments that are expected to have a positive environmental and social impact.

They might spend most days sealing important deals, but this Friday (5 October), Edinburgh’s top business leaders and influencers will instead spend a day in the dog house.

Edinburgh City Council is to consult the public about on its plans to charge a tourist tax of £2 per room, per night.

A group of activist nuns is buying stock in gun companies in an effort to compel manufacturers to detail how often their products are used in mass shootings. Sister Judy Byron, of the Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment, based in Seattle, told CTC News: “The only group that isn’t invo

West Dunbartonshire Council has approved plans to publicly name businesses who fail to pay their taxes.

Alison McGregor HSBC has said it will not hire a new Scottish chief executive following the announced departure of Alison McGregor at the end of this year, The Herald reports.

This month sees a team of four accountants from William Duncan + Co undertake a gruelling “500 miles in 5 days” cycling challenge, from John o’Groats, along the north, and down the west coasts, via Skye and Arran to Ayr.

Impact First, the ‘profit with purpose’ fund launched by social impact investor SIS Ventures, has secured 50 per cent of target capital commitments within the first two months of launch.

Interest rates have been increased by the Bank of England for only the second time in a decade.

A quartet of high-flying accountancy staff have smashed their fundraising target after jumping out of a plane for charity.

Four senior members from accountancy firm William Duncan’s senior management team are to undertake arguably their most challenging fundraiser to date when they attempt to cycle 500 miles in 5 days from John o'Groats to Ayr via Skye and Arran next month.