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Chancellor Rishi Sunak's announcement that the UK Government will pay the wages of employees unable to work due to the COVID-19 outbreak has been roundly welcomed. The chancellor said that the government will pay 80% of salary for staff who are kept on by their employer, covering wages of up to &pou

The Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) has said that the additional support measures announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak are essential if businesses are to survive the COVID-19 outbreak.

Accountancy firm EY has appointed Hywel Ball as its UK & Ireland managing partner and chairman as it prepares for its audit and consultancy divisions to be divided.  EY offered the job to Mr Ball after a leadership content where he beat Lynn Rattigan, EY’s current UK chief operating o

Sue Dawe, EY’s head of financial services in Scotland, has been appointed as a patron of Women in Banking & Finance (WIBF). Ms Dawe joins as the fifth patron of WIBF and is the only patron to be based in Scotland.

The UK's largest regional airline Flybe has gone into administration with Alan Hudson, Joanne Robinson, Lucy Winterborne and Simon Edel of EY appointed as joint administrators.

Global packaging business Aldus has agreed to buy API Foils in Livingston, which went into administration earlier this month. The packaging factory, which makes foils and laminates, closed its doors on the 31st of January, causing 107 job losses at the Livingstone factory site.

Colin Peter Dempster and Robert Hunter Kelly of EY have been appointed as joint administrators of the Livingston-based packaging company API Foils. The packaging factory, which makes foils and laminates, closed its doors on Friday with the loss of 107 jobs at the Livingston site.

Scottish companies considering a listing will hear from a panel of experts on how it can work best for their business at an IPO dinner hosted by Pinsent Masons and EY. Gordon McArthur, chief executive of fintech company Beeks Financial Cloud Group, which floated in 2017, and corporate finance expert

The Big Four accounting firms are engaging in talks with the audit regulator regarding a self-imposed break-up in an attempt to get ahead of government enforcement action. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is currently drawing up guidelines for the separation of audit and consulting operations a

Following the announcement of a majority Conservative government, various financial and business services in the UK have given their response.  Chris Sanger, EY’s head of tax policy, commented on what the General Election result means for UK tax and the Chancellor’s Budget in the ne

Challenger accountant BDO has rivalled The Big Four accountancy companies as it has taken on nine FTSE 250 audit clients this year. BDO's expanded client base comes as 'The Big Four' (Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG) increase their fees and cast off risky customers.

Partners at EY are due to take a pay cut, despite the business making record revenues. The Times reports that the 702 partners at EY received an average of £679,000 in the year to the end of June, a decrease of 2% on the previous year's pay of £693,000.

The largest accountancy firms have increased their share of the UK audit market with 100% of FTSE 100 companies now audited by the Big Four, according to new research from the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). Published today, the latest edition of Key Facts and Trends in the Accountancy Profession

FNZ, Morgan Stanley and Skills Development Scotland in partnership with the City of Glasgow College win at the Scottish Financial Services Awards 2019. The winners of this year’s revamped Scottish Financial Services Awards 2019 were announced at a ceremony at the EICC in Edinburgh last night a

Anthony Rafferty and Viva Rudkin have been appointed as the new directors for the board of financial services representative body Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE). Anthony Rafferty is managing director of fintech company Origo Services Limited and Viva Rudkin is managing director o