Azets

Specialist UK asset finance provider Propel and accounting, tax and business advisory firm Azets have formed a partnership that will give thousands more SMEs access to fast and flexible asset finance for investment in plant and equipment. Propel has a 25-year track record in supporting over 40,

Azets, the accountancy firm that specialises in the SME market, has taken on a ten-year lease on new offices in the heart of Aberdeen’s professional services district, effective from today. The new open-plan offices at 37 Albyn Place extend to 4500 sq ft and will feature the latest information

Accountancy firm Azets has promoted four Scottish partners, Chris Horne, Peter Gallanagh, Greig McKnight and Bernadette Higgins into senior management roles across the international and UK business. Chris Horne has been appointed deputy chief executive officer and will support chief executive office

A year on year fall of 54% in the number of personal insolvencies in Scotland (bankruptcies and protected deeds) due to the introduction of emergency legislation in April 2020 is to be welcomed but is likely to be short-lived, Blair Milne, a restructuring and insolvency expert with Azets has warned.

Aileen Scott, head of tax in Scotland with Azets, discusses why the forthcoming Budget must further relax business taxes and minimise the growing risk of closures and redundancies across the SME community. Businesses are being starved of cash and the Chancellor must use tax relief to help businesses

Azets is celebrating the start of National Apprenticeship Week by announcing that the business has recruited 443 apprentices during the current financial year. Across the UK, Azets has over 900 students and trainees studying professional qualifications, of which 443 are following the apprenticeship

Murdoch MacLennan, banking partner in Scotland with accountancy firm Azets, has warned that 'Bad Bank’ – the term coined for the specialist units within banks where businesses showing signs of financial distress are transferred – is likely to make a return to the UK’s busines

Martin Keenan, a cross-border VAT specialist with Azets in Scotland, has warned that the recent description of the problems faced by Scottish Seafood businesses trying to deliver their products to EU customers as “Teething problems” significantly understates the complex and challenging i

Murdoch MacLennan, a partner with Azets and a specialist in banking, is urging lenders to continue supporting businesses struggling with cash flow problems by extending for a further six-month term capital repayment holidays for debt that was arranged pre-COVID. Last March lenders moved swiftly to s

Fraser Campbell, head of family business with Azets, has suggested that Scotland’s businesses wanting to thank their staff in the traditional manner at Christmas should back their local hospitality enterprises by taking advantage of HMRC’s tax-free annual exemption of up to £200 fo

Accountancy firm Azets has been ranked first for expertise and quality of service in the Charity Finance Audit Survey 2020, with 96% of respondents rating Azets as ‘good’ – respondents were given a rating choice of good, average or poor. Azets performed strongly in all aspects of t

Murdoch MacLennan, head of brewing and distilling with Azets, toasts the enduring success of Scotland’s Whisky industry. I am of course biased, however, despite the gloom of the T, B and the C words (Tariffs, Brexit and COVID), Scotland’s buoyant spirits sector has continued to attract s

Ahead of the Spending Review, accountancy and business advisory firm Azets is calling on the Chancellor to take five practical steps that will support business and help deliver growth across the regions. Fraser Campbell, head of UK accounts and business advisory services, at Azets, said: &ldquo

Fraser Campbell, UK head of accounts and business advisory services with accountancy firm Azets, is warning that the recent decision by the government to cancel the Job Retention Bonus could finally force the closure of many thousands of companies that retained employees emerging out of furloug

Louise Brittain, restructuring and insolvency partner at accountancy firm Azets, discusses how new personal insolvency legislation is open to fraud. The Debt Respite Scheme gives people who receive professional debt advice access to a 60-day period in which interest, fees and charges are froze