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Just under half (48 per cent) of Scots feel that they will never buy their own home, with less than a third (29 per cent) feeling confident about their future purchasing prospects.

Twenty-five Scottish businesses - including one top flight football club - have been “named and shamed” today by the UK Government for failing to pay employees the national living and minimum wage, along with more than 200 other UK employers.

Marc Wilkinson, Lynne Lamont, and Donald Brown Wealth manager Brewin Dolphin has moved to strengthen its presence in Edinburgh with a clutch of senior appointments.

The Silver Fin Building, Aberdeen Barclays has taken space in The Silver Fin Building on Aberdeen's Union Street in order to relocate from its former premises at the Granite City's Union Plaza.

Hisashi Kuboyama Emergency and hardship funding will be made available to households and businesses affected by the Glasgow School of Art fire after the Scottish Government increased its funding contribution.

A forum held in Edinburgh has hailed the launch of The Global Sustainability Investment Trust (GST) which has been created with the aim of delivering on the United Nations’ sustainable development goals.

As "The Cloud" continues to assert itself on the accounting landscape and looks certain to play a big part in the managing of business finances well into the future, rural sector experts at accountants Saffery Champness take a closer look at its applicability to businesses operating outside of the

Tim Cooper Just over half of all technology and IT companies in Scotland are at higher than average risk of insolvency in the next 12 months, according to new research from insolvency and restructuring trade body R3.

Allan Barr Employees of Scottish PR firm The BIG Partnership are to share in a £250,000 bonus pay-out after the agency reported its best-ever year.

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Derek Blaik & Anita Eunson The introduction of the Scottish Rate of Income Tax (SRIT) created a great deal of noise when it first went ‘live’ in April of this year. Taxation – by its very nature – tends to attract heated debate and analysis and Scotland’s new system has followed that t

A trader from who racked up a €10m (£8.8m) profit after realising he wasn't using test program is suing the company providing the platform after it seized his earnings.

UK Export Finance’s (UKEF) annual report and accounts, published this week, reveal nearly £62 million of support for Scottish exporters, resulting in almost £79 million worth of overseas sales.

Michael Reid Michael J M Reid, licensed insolvency practitioner and partner of Meston Reid & Co, chartered accountants in Aberdeen explores the impact on directors when firms go under

Debbie Crosbie Glasgow-based Clydesdale Bank, which was established in the city 1838, could soon disappear from the Scottish banking scene as a result of owner CYBG’s £1.7 billion acquisition of Virgin Money.