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William Grant & Sons, the owners of Glenfiddich, the world’s biggest-selling single malt whisky, has lost a legal battle with an Indian company they accused of copying their product. The whisky producer, which was founded 132 years ago and now has its headquarters at Strathclyde Business P

Employers are being warned by accountants and business advisers French Duncan that share scheme reporting is essential to avoid penalties. As share schemes become a more common way of rewarding staff employers need to be aware of the stringent reporting requirements which these schemes attract.

Scottish retail sales decreased by 0.2 per cent on a like-for-like basis last month compared with March 2018, when they had decreased by 0.2 per cent.

Turcan Connell has announced the appointment of Gillian Crandles as its new managing partner. One of the country’s leading divorce lawyers, Ms Crandles is only the second person to occupy this role in the firm’s 22-year history and will combine it with her current position

Ahead of Royal Bank of Scotland’s AGM in Edinburgh next week, investors in the bailed-out lender have been advised to vote down chief executive Ross McEwan’s £3.6m remuneration package, which has been described as ‘excessive’ by shareholder advisory firm Pirc. Pirc said

Scotland is sitting on the precipice of a deep recession into which it could be tipped by a disorderly Brexit, according to researchers at the Fraser of Allander Institute (FAI) at the University of Strathclyde, who predict that such a scenario would mean a loss of more than £1 in every &

A woman who tried to raffle a Scottish castle because she couldn’t sell it on the open market has been rapped by the advertising watchdog for substituting the property for a cash prize instead.

Scott-Moncrieff, Scotland’s longest established accountancy firm, is to join forces with Campbell Dallas to become part of the fast-growing CogitalGroup. The deal, which is for an undisclosed sum, will see all 16 Scott-Moncrieff partners and 220 staff transfer, creating one of Scotland’s

The impact Brexit is having on people working in the UK's financial services industry has been revealed by data collected by Artificial Intelligence platform, Talent Ticker. 

The latest statistics from the UK House Price Index (HPI) show that the average price of a property in Scotland in February 2019 was £145,762 – a decrease of 0.2 per cent on February in the previous year. This is the first annual decrease in the average price of a property in Scotland si

The health of the Scottish economy weakened considerably in the first quarter of this year against the backdrop of an uncertain global environment and the cloud of Brexit hanging over the UK economy, the latest Scottish Chambers of Commerce Quarterly Economic Indicator survey for Q1 of 2019 shows. T

A charity dedicated to helping children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) has welcomed funding from the Aberdeen Standard Investments Charitable Foundation. The four-figure sum has been given to I CAN, the children’s communication’s charity, and w

The UK's competition regulator has shied away from meaningful change of the accountancy industry after ignoring recommendations for a major shake-up in a move critics have described as a missed “golden opportunity”.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published figures showing that complaints against financial firms decreased by 5 per cent in the second half of last year, falling from 4.13m to 3.91m. This is the first time the number of complaints has fallen since firms were required to change

Mike Bruce, chief executive at Weslo Housing Management suggests an alternative headline for Scottish Financial News, and offers an informative look at the question of board remuneration in the process. Reading the recent article in which Kelly Adams of RSM considers the question of p