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Andrew Ewing Business owners considering a sale should give themselves two years to get their company in good shape and maximise the value, according to accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael.

Nationwide, the UK's biggest building society, has reported a drop in half-year profits as low interest rates squeezed profit margins.

Councillors have voiced concerns over the latest budget predictions that could mean a gap of £115 million for Fife Council over the next three years.

The Department for International Trade (DIT) has launched a new online platform designed to help UK businesses with exporting.

Standard Life Investments believes that it is time for a reset of fiscal policy to address both short and long-term challenges in the UK economy.

A third of all British businesses have abandoned investments totalling £65.5 billion as a result of the Brexit vote, according to Hitachi Capital and the Centre for Economic and Business Research.

Commercial finance provider for SMEs, IGF, has completed £5 million in asset based financing to Scottish SMEs since its launch in July.

Jamie Grant, head of corporate banking for Barclays Scotland & Northern Ireland (right) and Stuart Brown, head of SME banking for Barclays Scotland & Northern Ireland. Barclays has strengthened its Scottish senior management team with the appointment of Stuart Brown as head of SME Banking fo

Iain Fraser FRP Advisory have taken over at Aberdeen-based European Development Company, operator of Holiday Inn and Express hotels in the Granite City and Holiday Inn Express in Edinburgh, after the business was placed in administration.

The Scottish estate market has proved its resilience during 2016 according to industry experts at Perthshire-based agents CKD Galbraith.

Kevin McCloud and Bevis Watts managing director Triodos Bank UK Triodos Bank has created a dedicated £15 million lending pot for social housing providers to make energy efficient improvements to current housing stock to alleviate fuel poverty and develop green spaces.

An Edinburgh builder who stole almost £120,000 of VAT that he had charged his customers has been jailed for 20 months after he was investigated by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

James Leigh-Pemberton The spectre of a fine ranging between $5bn (£4bn) and $12bn imposed by American authorities on Royal Bank of Scotland is preventing the re-privatisation of the still 73 per cent state-owned, bailed-out bank, MPs have heard.

Sara Wilson Dundee-based Alliance Trust Savings has called on Chancellor Philip Hammond to scrap the lifetime allowance (LTA) for pension savings in his Autumn Statement next week.