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A book-keeper has been jailed for 18 months after embezzling £60,000 from her employer.

Chiene + Tait's (C+T) Entrepreneurial Tax Team celebrates their achievement. Chiene + Tait's (C+T) Entrepreneurial Tax Team has scooped the Accountancy & Finance Tax Team of the Year award at the Scottish Accountancy Awards.

Employers have less than three weeks to ensure all expenses and benefits in kind provided to employees have been declared as the latest deadline on the tax calendar looms, a north east accountancy firm has warned. A P11D return for each employee covered by the legislation must be completed for the y

Stephen Boyle Slowdown in the Scottish economy appears to be coming to an end and optimism is returning, according to the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Kenneth McEwen Scottish accountancy firm Henderson Loggie has appointed Kenneth McEwen to lead the firm’s specialist property and construction sector group.

Lloyds has won a Supreme Court case brought by a group of its bondholders as their final appeal to overturn the bank’s forced repurchase of their bonds at face value. The victory could save Lloyds Banking Group up to £1bn.

Aberdeen Asset Management is merging two of its bond funds based in Dublin into its Luxembourg-based high yield fund and emerging market debt vehicles. The move will see Aberdeen’s £41.5m Aberdeen Select Global Sovereign Bond fund merged into the $1.5bn Global Select Emerging Markets Bond fund as

Standard Life Investments, has launched an American Equity Income OEIC to UK-based retail investors. The Edinburgh-based global investment manager said the fund expands its suite of geographical income solutions it offers which includes UK, European, Global Emerging Markets & Global offerings.

Tim Sawyer Almost 2,000 Scots have started a new business since 2014, with three out of four of the new entrepreneurs previously being unemployed.

Lord Doherty A Scottish council has won a £3 million legal dispute with an insurance firm over the collapse of the Scottish Coal Company.

Standard Life Investments has sold the Grosvenor Building in Glasgow to UBS Asset Management's global real estate business for £18 million. The A-listed building in Gordon Street in the city centre represents a current rental yield of 6.9 per cent for Global Real Estate (GRE) and vacant space on th

Chris Horne Independent accountancy firm Campbell Dallas scooped the top three awards at the prestigious annual Scottish Accountancy & Finance Awards 2016 held last night.

Latest data released by The Student Loans Company has revealed student debt in Scotland is rising faster than anywhere else in the UK. The statistics show that while Scotland continues to have the lowest student debt in the whole of the UK by a significant margin, it is steadily increasing.

Rain Newton-Smith The first quarter of 2016 has seen optimism fall for the first time in over three years among financial services firms as a result of financial market instability and uncertainty of the global economic environment, according to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and PwC.

Standard Life moved its company pension fund heavily into bonds last year, recording the biggest switch of any FTSE-100 company. New research by JLT Employee Benefits shows the average bond allocation rose to 61 per cent in the year to 31 December 2015, which is equivalent to around £20bn.