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Andrew Johnston has been appointed to the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) Conduct Committee alongside Colin McCarthy-Little, who has been appointed to the FRC's Audit Quality Review Committee. Mr Jonston's term commenced on 1 November 2019 and he replaces Martin Slack who stepped down on

Dave Smith, tax manager at Meston Reid & Co, has urged contractors to seek IR35 advice now and not wait until 2020 to do so. In just a few months from now, new employment tax legislation is due to come into effect for medium and large businesses that engage contractors who operate through an int

A total of £50,000 is being invested to help increase the number of women working in Scottish aquaculture. The funding will deliver a mentoring scheme to support women already working in the sector to develop their careers, and a website to promote aquaculture and job opportunities to women.

Pinsent Masons has advised Tesco as it entered into long term power purchase agreements (PPAs) with developers, EDF Renewables, ScottishPower Renewables and BayWa. As a member of the RE100 group of companies, Tesco has made a commitment to source 100% of electricity across the Tesco Group from renew

Independent commercial law firm MacRoberts has welcomed a number of new clients to the firm as a result of recent competitive tendering exercises. In the private sector, the firm has been appointed to act for CALA Homes as part of a select panel of legal advisers.

Crown Estate Scotland has generated £11.4 million for the Scottish Government in 2018-19. The organisation has also delivered on key projects designed to deliver benefit for Scotland and increase community input into how Scottish Crown Estate is managed.

BXTR, a boutique accommodation specialist, has received £1 million in funding from OakNorth Bank to help drive the expansion of a new hotel brand.

Stuart Robb and Michelle Elliot of Leonard Curtis Business Rescue & Recovery Limited have been appointed joint administrators of Sharc Highlands Limited and issued a call for expressions of interest in the company's assets. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sharc Energy Limited, which

Growth among Scottish SMEs exceeds the UK average but firms are still not fulfilling their export potential, research by Censuswide for UK Export Finance (UKEF) has found.

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) issued a warning yesterday that an increasing number of people may be being sold debt solutions that don’t work for their circumstances. CAS made the claim in response to the latest quarterly figures released yesterday from Accountant in Bankruptcy, which show a

Scottish agriculture charity RSABI raised over £50,000 at its annual Great Glen Challenge event with support from Bank of Scotland and RBS. The popular event has raised over £350,000 in recent years with support from over 500 rural competitors, representing over 130 company teams si

The number of Scottish companies entering into administration, receivership or liquidation has decreased by almost 35 per cent in the last quarter, according to new analysis by KPMG. There were a total of 158 corporate insolvency appointments in the three months to 30 September 2019 – dow

Shawbrook Bank has launched its new savings operation in Scotland. The new savings team will be based in Shawbrook’s Glasgow office where it will join the existing 60 staff from the regional business centre, as well as the bank’s operations, payments, IT and marketing teams.

A three-part series into the growing pension scheme bills faced by plumbers in Scotland begins in The Herald today.

A third (34%) of adults in Scotland say they do not save any money, according to new research conducted by the Bank of Scotland.