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From left, Thomas Lillie, Gillian Crotty, Rob Aberdein and Matt Wightman, Scottish law firm Aberdein Considine has agreed a deal which will allow it to offer services across the entire United Kingdom for the first time.

Miles Celic A new report has underlined the important role UK-based financial and related professional services play in underpinning prosperity in Britain’s nations and regions and the danger to it posed by uncertainty.

Jonathan Blair Bond Dickinson is expanding its presence in Scotland with the opening of a new office in Edinburgh. The firm, which already has an office in Aberdeen, will open an office with around two or three partners and up to 20 staff.

Angela Mitchell Global accountancy firm Deloitte has waded into the debate raging over local government reform by slamming Holyrood proposals to redraw the councils map as too simplistic and symptomatic of a risk averse culture.

Kerry MacBeth

A Glasgow accountant has been struck-off for breaking money-laundering rules during the multi-million-pound takeover of city bakery business Mortons Rolls.

Michael Watson Michael Watson, head of finance and projects group at Pinsent Masons, discusses an innovative approach by Aberdeen City Council to raising cash.

Rain Newton-Smith Demand in the services sector – which include accountancy, legal and marketing firms – picked up a little in the three months to February, according to the CBI’s latest quarterly Service Sector Survey.

Richard Britten The deadline is fast approaching for employers to get ready for HMRC’s Payrolling Benefits in Kind (PBiK) scheme, a senior employment expert at accountants Johnston Carmichael has warned.

Iain McGhee By Iain McGhee, valuation and rating partner at Knight Frank LLP

Stirling is now the most affordable city in both Scotland and the whole of the UK. There has been a further deterioration in home affordability in Scottish cities, according to the latest Bank of Scotland Affordable Cities review.

Coll Murchison-MacDonald In just over 12 months it is expected that the first phase of HMRC’s Making Tax Digital (MTD) project will come on stream and Scottish acountancy firm Saffery Champness is warning rural businesses to be ready.

Tor Homes recently completed the transformation of Eastern Primary School in Dundee. FRP Advisory has been appointed as administrators at a developer that just months ago completed a major housing project in Dundee.

Ross McEwan Royal Bank of Scotland has today said that it made a £7bn annual loss last year, a tripling of the figure reported for 2015 and representing the ninth year of losses in a row for the still 73 per cent state-owned bank.

Insurer and asset manager Standard Life has today reported a 9 percent rise in operating profit for 2016.