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Jann Brown One of Scotland’s leading chartered accountants is to become senior independent director of Aberdeen-based off-shore giant Wood Group.

The next Scottish Government faces a funding gap of more than £2 billion each year by 2020, with tax rises alone unlikely to eliminate spending and welfare cuts, a think tank has found. A new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research Scotland (IPPR Scotland) has analysed how new Scottish

Leah Hutcheon, CEO of Appointedd An online booking specialist has won an £18,000 pitching competition organised by Scotland’s only female angel investment group.

Jennifer Penman Aberdeen-based independent firm of Chartered Accountants, Anderson Anderson & Brown (AAB), has announced the appointment of Jennifer Penman as restructuring manager in their newly established restructuring & recovery (R2) division.

New data has shown that last month saw Scotland enjoy the sharpest rise in the number of people placed in permanent jobs since last July. A survey by financial information services firm Markit found salaries also picked up in February amid a stronger rise in demand for staff.

Residential property sales exceeded £16.5 billion in 2015, according to statistics published today by Registers of Scotland (RoS). A total of 97,701 sales took place across Scotland in 2015, the highest annual figure since 2008, and an increase of 4.5 per cent compared to the previous year.

Lord Smith of Kelvin Dundee-based fund management firm Alliance Trust says it wants to recruit women to its new-look board after a trio of female directors were ousted from it.

Aberdeenshire Housing Partnership (AHP) has secured a £7.5m finance facility from Bank of Scotland as it seeks to build 350 new homes over the next five years. The new revolving credit facility has been agreed with Bank of Scotland and complements an existing £24m package already in place.

Jackie Waring Scotland’s first conference for female angel investors and entrepreneurs will be urged to emulate US success where one in four angel investors are female.

Stephen Hay Following the publication this week of new Government statistics showing the breakdown of income taxes paid by Scottish taxpayers, accountancy firm RSM is warning that raising the top rate after the election would only have a limited impact on overall tax receipts.

More than half of Scotland’s councils are now recognised as Fairtrade areas, figures compiled by the independent Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) show – with a total of 110 Fairtrade areas around the country. Scotland was recognised as a Fairtrade Nation in 2013 after all cities an

A growing Scottish film industry, strong line-up of rich cultural events and a year of food and drink all helped to make 2015 and early 2016 a strong year for the Scottish central belt hotel industry – but Aberdeen continued to suffer as low oil prices and redundancies continued to bite. That’s

The Scottish Government should have a single department responsible for both new tax and welfare powers due to be devolved, according to Reform Scotland. With welfare expenditure currently divided between two departments,HMRC and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Reform Scotland believes t

A piece of Scottish legal history has been made by the Crown Office’s Civil Recovery Unit (CRU) after it secured the forfeiture and sale of 19 Krugerrands, South African gold coins that each contain one Troy ounce of pure gold. Cash raised from the sale of the forfeited goods is being handed over

Martin Darroch The corporate team at Harper Macleod enjoyed a record year in 2015, seeing it ranked in the top three dealmakers in Scotland.