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KPMG’s 'best and brightest' are celebrating after 14 team members from the firm’s offices across the world were recognised in this year’s ICAS Top 100 Young Chartered Accountants (CAs) competition. The CA's which made this year’s list include colleagues based in the Glasgow,

Big Four accountancy firm KPMG is expected to garner £16 million in fees for its handling of the administration of property empire Intu the former owner of the Braehead complex near Glasgow.

Total retail sales in Scotland decreased by 8.3% over the four weeks from July 5 to August 1 compared with July 2019, when they had decreased by 0.1%, in what KPMG has described as 'a recovery of sorts, but at a worryingly low pace'.

KPMG has appointed three new directors to its tax and audit teams within its Scottish practice.  In Edinburgh, Craig Barrowman has been appointed director in the tax and legal team. He’s joined by tax director Ruth Wallace in Glasgow and Michelle Smarsh, who is promoted to audit dire

Not one of Scotland’s 48 listed companies features a black executive on its senior management team, according to new research conducted by The Ferret.

Venture Capital (VC) investment in Scottish scale-ups remained robust and resilient in the second quarter of 2020, as the number of deals increased during lockdown despite growing economic and political uncertainty. The latest data from KPMG Private Enterprise’s Global Venture Pulse Survey rev

The closure of courts due to the coronavirus lockdown led to a complete halt in the prosecution of high-value fraud cases in Scotland during the first half of 2020, according to data from KPMG. The firm’s bi-annual Fraud Barometer measures fraud cases with losses of £100,000 or more reac

KPMG has appointed Philippa Sanderson as its new associate partner to lead its private enterprise tax team in Central Scotland. Based in Edinburgh, Ms Sanderson joins the Scottish practice from KPMG’s North Region where she previously led the firm’s Sheffield office.

Despite a total year-on-year decline in retail sales of 18.6% in June, Scotland's retail sector appears to be on a slow path to recovery, according to the latest KPMG and Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) Scottish Retail Sales monitor. 

Neil Coutts, head of the cyber and technology risk capability for KPMG in Scotland, discusses some of the long-term cybersecurity challenges facing Scottish businesses as more people look to work from home in the future. Scotland’s lockdown may be easing, but there’s a growing accep

Blair Nimmo and Alistair McAlinden of KPMG have been appointed joint administrators of Livingston-based WFS Technologies Limited. Immediately following the appointment, the entire business and its assets were immediately sold to GKFF EnNovo.

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

Loch Lomond-based Glen Luss Distillery has appointed former KPMG partner Gary Deans as non-executive director.  Mr Deans brings over 35 years of experience advising privately-held businesses and his work at Glen Luss will focus on raising finance and the business’s growth strategy. He als

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has ordered the UK's Big Four accountancy firms to separate their audit practices by June 2024. The FRC has outlined a set of principles for the operational separation of audit functions within PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY. The watchdog has ruled that the four&nbs

Elevate Credit International Limited (ECIL), a payday lender which sold loans under the Sunny brand, has gone into administration in the UK with Ed Boyle and David Pike of KPMG appointed as administrators of the firm. The lender has blamed its financial difficulties on the coronavirus pandemic, as w