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The number of new tech start-ups in Scotland has increased by 57% in quarter three this year compared to quarter one data, according to new research conducted by audit, tax and consulting firm RSM.

Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has expanded its Scottish team as Irina Cheburdanidze, associate director of financial reporting, moves to join the Edinburgh office. Ms Cheburdanidze joins from RSM Leeds where she has worked since 2014 and has more than 14 years’ experience supporting clien

Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM is lending its support to Edinburgh-based retail firm Lost Stock by helping to run its day to day finances.

Paul Dounis and Matthew Haw of RSM Restructuring Advisory LLP, the joint administrators of Jablite Limited and Styropack (UK) Limited have saved 155 jobs in Aberdeen after completing a prepack sale of the business and assets of both companies.  Mr Dounis and Mr Haw were appointed join

RSM has expanded its Scottish audit team with the appointment of Katie Morrison as partner in the firm's Glasgow branch. Ms Morrison joins from KPMG where she worked as an audit director. She has over 18 years of experience working in corporate audit, ranging from owner manager to fully listed compa

Audit, tax and consultancy firm RSM has urged Scottish directors to act in the best interest of stakeholders warning that if they do not, they could be found personally liable.  Company directors are working hard to keep their business up and running and ready to get back to more normal trading

RSM’s Market Stress Index has recorded its steepest and most protracted spike in negative sentiment since the metric was introduced, as COVID-19 fears intensify. The index, which measures financial and economic stress or risk since the UK’s departure from the EU, has shot up in the past

Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM is once again collaborating with Turing Fest on the NextGen Founders network, to bring Scottish tech startups, partners and investors together to build, grow and lead. Due to the success of the NextGen dinners, this year there will be eight events in total, sp

Shirley McIntosh, tax partner at RSM, discusses the new challenges facing the legal sector amid changes in property tax. The start of the new tax year on 6 April 2020 will see the latest in a long line of changes in the taxation of property introduced since April 2013, from new and abolished rules,

A management reshuffle has occurred at accountancy firm RSM following the discovery of an error in its accounts.  RSM scored a major win last year when it was appointed as auditor to Sports Direct. However, the company's accounts for the year to 31st March revealed that the firm had made e

Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP has strengthened its business restructuring team with the appointment of director Kevin Lamb in its Edinburgh office. Mr Lamb joins from RSM after five years in its restructuring team.

UKHospitality has today published an analysis that reveals that if a tourist tax was introduced across the country it will lead to a hit to the Scottish economy of over £200 million and the loss of nearly 6,000 jobs.

Understanding the complex UK tax system is hard as it is, but when you layer on the interaction with the devolved administrations, the task gets even harder for Scottish voters. RSM’s Shirley McIntosh unpicks the manifesto claims with a Scottish lens. We have often mentioned the complexity of

Audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has found that a quarter of middle-market firms don’t have a formal process in place to handle whistleblowing. This compares to 33% surveyed over two years ago, highlighting a rate of progress that RSM believes is too slow.

RSM's corporate finance team continues to be the most active financial adviser in the Scottish Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) advisory market. The firm advised on 11 M&A deals in Scotland in the first nine months of 2019. This continued strong performance comes against a backdrop of reduced