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Donald McNaught picks up the award for Restructuring Project of the Year with MC Rufus Hound. Scottish accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael, has picked up two awards at the British Accountancy Awards 2015.

Susannah Simpson Chancellor George Osborne's announcement this week that most self- employed people, including landlords, would be required to update their tax information at least quarterly using their digital tax account has been met with a mixed response.

Marco Biagi A commission has been set up by Holyrood and local authorities is looking into alternatives for the Council tax in Scotland.

James Stephen BDO, administrators at Edinburgh-based wave energy company Aquamarine Power, has said the firm has been forced to stop trading after a buyer for the business could not be found.

Edinburgh-based insurance giant Standard Life, which owns 1 per cent of HSBC, has said it would back a move by the lender, which is Britain’s biggest bank, to relocate out of the country. Standard’s head of equities David Cumming said shareholders would back HSBC if it decided to move its headqu

Tessa Till Tessa Till is a private client partner at Pagan Osborne's Edinburgh office.

Fergus Ewing Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Scotland are being urged to put resource efficiency at the top of their agendas with a supporting loan of up to £100,000.

George Clarke The potential value of Scotland’s empty homes is more than £4 billion, according to the organisation tasked with bringing them back into use.

A Scottish government scheme designed to help people with debt has seen more than £100m repaid to creditors. Since being overhauled four years ago, a total of just over £112m has been repaid through the Debt Arrangement Scheme (DAS) since July 2011, according to new figures.

Sarah Speirs The latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey has determined that Scottish house prices expected to rise by 4.2 per cent per annum, over the next five years (a cumulative increase of around 25 per cent).

The Scottish Housing Regulator has stressed the key role of auditors in Registered Social Landlords risk management and compliance with regulatory standards. Speaking at the SFHA’s Finance Conference in Crieff Ian Brennan, the Regulator’s director of finance & risk, said: “Internal auditor

A finance director who took almost £8m from businesses owned by Scottish entrepreneur and TV personality Duncan Bannatyne has been jailed. Christopher Watson, who claimed he was exposed to a “culture of undoubtedly corrupt company management”, pleaded guilty to defrauding the Bannatyne Group of

John Kay A former economic adviser to the Scottish Government has claimed that Edinburgh will never recover from the trauma of the 2008 banking crisis and branded the damage done to the city’s banking sector a “tragedy”.

Calum Bennie Staff turnover at Scottish Friendly has come in for scrutiny following a series of high-profile departures at the finance firm.

A Scottish stock market trader is facing fraud charges in the US over allegations that he created fake tweets to mislead the market. US authorities claim the bogus tweets were intended to manipulate the stock prices of two companies.