Scottish firms, once profitable but financially strained during the COVID-19 pandemic, are now feeling the pinch of a cost-of-living crisis, leading to record levels of insolvency activity, according to Wylie & Bisset, an accountancy and business advisory firm. R3, the insolvency and restructuri
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Wylie & Bisset, accountants and business advisers, has announced a trio of promotions that sees tax director Shehzad Ashaq promoted to associate partner together with the promotions of Matthew McDermott to senior manager and Laura Caulfield to manager within the burgeoning Business Advisory Serv
Wylie & Bisset, accountants and business advisers, has called for Scottish employers to consider adopting creative employment packages to attract and retain the best candidates in response to a widening gap in personal taxation levels between Scotland and the rest of the UK. Scots earning more t
Opulus has broadened its reach by acquiring George + Co, a firm of Chartered Tax Advisers and Accountants located in Edinburgh's West End. The acquisition is part of Opulus's strategic plan to extend its geographic footprint throughout Scotland, and it marks the company's entry into the east of Scot
Wylie & Bisset has promoted Claire Dalrymple to partner of corporate services. Her latest promotion follows last year’s promotion from director of corporate services to associate partner, prior to which Ms Dalrymple’s was promoted from senior audit manager to director of corporate se
Fresh from winning its first contract to deliver internal audit services to a housing association in England, Wylie & Bisset has landed a second contract. The Scottish accountancy and business advisory firm recently won a contract with Rochdale Boroughwide Housing.
Opulus Financial (Opulus) has partnered with Wylie & Bisset, to expand its offering throughout Scotland. SME Capital, the institution founded to provide bespoke funding for established SMEs, has provided a £10 million growth capital facility to support further expansion plans of the enlarg
Wylie & Bisset has won its first contract to deliver internal audit services to a housing association in England. Already a provider of internal audit services for housing in Scotland and Northern Ireland, the contract win makes Rochdale Boroughwide Housing, the UK’s first tenant and emplo
Wylie & Bisset, accountants and business advisers, has urged business owners to avoid making a kneejerk reaction to warnings of a difficult economic outlook for Scotland for much of this year.
Wylie & Bisset, accountants and business advisers, has backed calls from the Scottish hospitality sector for business rate support. The firm agrees with UKHospitality (UKH) Scotland that a lack of business rates support for Scottish hospitality is unfairly hindering the sector in comparison to E
Accounting and business advice firm Wylie & Bisset has advised Livingston-based laboratory equipment and support specialists C&M Scientific on its sale to Scientific Laboratory Supplies (SLS), a supplier of equipment, chemicals and consumables for laboratory use in the UK. C&M Scientific
Shehzad Ashaq, corporate tax director at Wylie & Bisset, has won the Rising Star in Business category at the 15th Scottish Asian & Business Awards 2022. The awards recognise a wide range of achievements from Asian individuals across Scotland who positively impact business, charity, sport, ar
Wylie & Bisset: Well-trained staff are the first line of defence against the threat of cyber attacks
With reports of all organisations facing an increasingly sophisticated range of cybersecurity threats, Wylie & Bisset, Accountants and Business Advisers, has advised SMEs that well-trained staff are the first line of defence against cyber-attacks. Kevin McDermott, senior IT auditor at Wylie &
With Companies House data revealing that Edinburgh and south-east Scotland have the highest percentage of female entrepreneurs in the UK, Wylie & Bisset, accountants and business advisers, has welcomed the rise in the number of female-led start-ups while stressing the importance of cashflow as a
Accounting and business advisory firm Wylie & Bisset has advised that the development of ‘patient capital’, together with ‘buy and build’ and ‘hub and spoke’ investment models, are making SMEs more attractive for private equity firms. Last year saw £895