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Austen Clark Tesco Bank’s online hacking attack has prompted the boss of a North east IT firm to issue a stark warning that cyber crime must be taken very seriously – and not just by national and international brands and corporations.

Aberdeen-based independent firm of Chartered Accountants Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB) has announced the launch of a new specialist Training Division to build on existing workshops and courses currently delivered to clients.

James Anderson The falling value of the pound against the dollar may have helped the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust to post a 25 per cent increase in net asset value (NAV) and price per share in the six months to September 30, but that has not stopped its guiding force from condemning the UK’s

Benny Higgins Tesco Bank's chief executive Benny Higgins has said he is "very hopeful" customers would be refunded within 24 hours after about 40,000 of its accounts saw suspicious transactions over the weekend, of which half had money taken.

A Dundee woman who funded her “extravagant lifestyle” through the embezzlement of £64,000 from the Dundee firm where she worked has been hit with a 10-year Bankruptcy Restrictions Order (BRO) by the Accountancy in Bankruptcy.

An Aberdeen pharmacist who admitted forging prescriptions in a VAT fraud of more than £200,000 has been jailed.

The Hyperion Development team Hyperion Development, a small University of Edinburgh start-up company which provides scalable software development and computer science education internationally, has won a competitive ‘social impact award’ of $150,000 cash, plus a further $60,000 support grant fro

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) across Scotland are being given the chance to enlist the services of an industry expert to assist them with a cyber security strategy.

Despite take-up in Edinburgh and Glasgow city centres in Q3 2016 being well down on the five-year quarterly average, leading real estate advisory firm Bilfinger GVA is optimistic that the market will recover from the post-Brexit downturn.

Susan Deacon Professor Susan Deacon, Chair of the Institute of Directors, this morning urged Scottish business leaders to step up to the plate during the greatest upheaval and uncertainty of recent times, and steer their companies and organisations through the unfolding climate of political and cons

Sandy Begbie Edinburgh based insurance giant Standard Life has announced that it will be implementing the new hourly rates for the real Living Wage from this month, well ahead of the May 2017 deadline.

The results of a survey of members of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) and the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) have strengthened the two bodies’ concern that the timescale for implementing compulsory digital record keeping is unrealistic and must be delayed.

Wealth manager Rowan Dartington has announced that it is expanding to Scotland with the appointment of investment manager Peter Roper in Edinburgh.

Judith Howson Judith Howson, Business Recovery Manager at French Duncan, provides some background on the new legislation and what it means for Scotland.

Scottish consumers are facing a difficult 2017 of higher prices and lower wage growth following the collapse in the value of sterling, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants BDO.