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Jackie Mann and Colin Crosby have been appointed as the new non-executive board members of Audit Scotland. The two are to be appointed by the Scottish Commission for Public Audit following an open recruitment exercise.

Dean Banks, a Scottish Masterchef finalist and restaurateur, has hit his crowdfunding target of £25,000 within just two days. The Angus-born chef, who appeared on BBC’s Masterchef: The Professionals in 2018, announced the fundraising campaign on social media two days ago,

Ahead of the reopening of pubs and restaurants on July 15 as lockdown measures are eased, chartered accountancy firm Wylie & Bisset is advising those hospitality sector operators facing financial difficulties because of the coronavirus to consider applying to the Redundancy P

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has written to Lloyds Banking Group and Nationwide about their non-compliance with the Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) Market Investigation Order of 2011.

The head of Russia's national women's organisation has called for a rainbow-coloured ice cream to be banned as "gay propaganda".

Scottish wholesale firms are urging Chancellor Rishi Sunak to extend business rates relief to the wholesale sector to bring it into line with its customers in tourism and hospitality. The Scottish Wholesale Association (SWA) is also calling for an extension to the furlough scheme to safeguard jobs a

In yesterday's summer economic statement, chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a number of measures aimed at supporting the UK economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, such measures include a temporary 5% VAT cut for the food and hospitality industry. The cut marks a significant reduction from t

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has fined Grant Thornton for repeated breaches of ethical standards. Such breaches included failing to maintain its independence over its audit of collapsed alcohol firm Conviviality.

Scotland's finance minister Kate Forbes is being urged to match England's stamp duty tax cut for house buyers.

Around £75 million has been wiped off the value of The Events Complex Aberdeen (Teca), by KPMG's audit of Aberdeen City Council's books. The Big Four firm has revealed that the exhibition centre, which includes the P&J Live arena, two hotels and an energy centre, is now worth around 80% of

Edinburgh saw a record low number of office take-up deals in the second quarter of this year as the coronavirus pandemic heavily impacted the sector, according to the latest office market figures from CBRE. Over the second quarter of the year, office take-up in Edinburgh totalled 26,876 sq ft, an 84

The Edinburgh Tax Network, in conjunction with Mazars and Terra Firma Chambers, will present a webinar for those looking to plan their personal finances during and beyond the COVID-19 crisis on 16 July 2020 from 1pm to 2.30pm. With speakers, Kenny Stevenson (Financial P

In the second quarter of 2020, angel syndicate members of LINC Scotland maintained the high level of equity investment activity seen in the first quarter, bucking the trend of a decline of investment in companies generally during the coronavirus pandemic. Taking these first two quarters of

Helen Foord, founder of Edinburgh-based professional services communications agency ELE Global, shares her top five apps/programmes/systems which will help to run businesses virtually. We're actually in the process of reviewing all of our technology at the moment and that would be one of my key

The take-up of industrial & logistics space as hit record levels in Scotland in the first half of 2020, according to Savills latest Big Shed Briefing. The occupation of such units reached 704,531 sq ft (65,453 sq m) across four transactions, marking a 165% increase on the long-term half-year ave