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As many Scottish employees return to work after the first of two Spring bank holidays, new research from PwC has revealed that, if offered, most Scottish workers would prefer to take five days extra holiday than receive a one-off bonus of £500. And despite reports of household incomes still being u

Sir Angus Grossart Alexander Dennis, the Scottish bus and coach builder bought 11 years ago by a consortium led by Sir Angus Grossart, Sir Brian Souter and Sir David Murray, could fetch £300 million, if rumours of an impending sale are true.

Sandy Manson Johnston Carmichael has been announced as a finalist in the Scottish Accountancy & Finance Awards for an eighth consecutive year.

Antonio Horta-Osario Edinburgh-based Lloyds Banking Group made a £1.2bn profit in the first three months of 2015 -an 11 per cent fall year-on-year from the £1.4bn recorded in the first quarter of 2014.

Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp An open letter published in a national Sunday newspaper has seen 150 leading businessmen and women call for full fiscal autonomy for Scotland.

The chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Scotland, Anton Colella, was paid £354,000 last year. Mr Coella’s remuneration was revealed in the newly-published ICAS annual review for 2014, which revealed the total wage bill for other executive directors at the organisation increa

Despite the introduction of major new pension reforms at the start of this month, it appears that almost 55 per cent of Scottish adults aged between 50-75 years have received no contact from their pension providers, according to ‘big four’ accountants PwC. A PwC survey found a total of 37 per ce

Larry Flanagan Almost £100 million of cash “squirrelled away” by Scottish colleges into “foundations” after a change in accounting rules has been targeted by teaching unions and student leaders who claim the cash could be put to “better use” as cuts ravage higher education.

Nicola Sturgeon First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has taken the unusual step of writing to Alliance Trust chief executive Katherine Garratt-Cox to offer her backing for the current board’s position in resisting an assault by a US hedge fund to impose three new directors at the Dundee-based wealth man

Calvin Harris A Scottish DJ is a new entry in The Sunday Times Rich List having amassed an estimated £70 million fortune at the tender age of 31.

Sarah Speirs Scottish construction firms are still being prevented from growth because of persistent difficulties in sourcing skilled workers, a survey has found.

An employee at a Glasgow law firm has admitted to embezzling £180,000 from her employers. Teresa Kidd, 44, a purchase ledger at Maclay Murray and Spens LLP (MMS) took thousands from her employers between October 2006 and November 2011.

Ian Williams Credit card companies are giving Scottish customers more credit, even though they haven’t asked for it, research from debt advice and solutions provider Debt Advisory Centre Scotland has revealed.

Oil and gas services company Petrofac has issued a further profit warning of about £130 million on its Laggan-Tormore gas plant project on Shetland. The group, which took on full construction responsibility for the project after some of its sub-contractors “failed to deliver in line with their ag

Douglas Flint HSBC, the UK’s biggest bank, is considering moving its headquarters overseas to avoid the effects of changes to UK banking regulations, according to its Scottish-born chairman.