Johnston Carmichael

Scottish-headquartered accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has appointed Paul Shields as a partner in its Newcastle office. Mr Shields joins Johnston Carmichael after 25 years of advising clients across the north-east of England.

Johnston Carmichael's chief people officer Martin Osler discusses career progression at the firm, and how it is working hard to promote social mobility in the profession. Given all of the conversations about how allegedly challenging it is to engage millennials in the workplace you’d be forgiv

Accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael has intensified its commitment to fostering talent by welcoming 90 new students to the firm.

In a move to foster social mobility and diversity, Johnston Carmichael has teamed up with the ICAS Foundation in a collaboration to financially back young, disadvantaged Scots pursuing accountancy degrees, addressing educational inequality head-on. As part of the agreement, Johnston Carmichael will

Two professional services firms have signalled their support for female founders by providing funding for their families to travel to one of the world’s biggest tech conferences. Chartered accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael and Thorntons are backing the initiative, orga

Johnston Carmichael, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and Aberdeenshire Council’s Foundation Apprenticeship Team, have collaborated to launch a new qualification in accountancy. This new Foundation Apprenticeship (FA) course in accountancy, already embraced by 36

Accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael has welcomed Bryan Shepka, financial services audit and assurance partner, and Gillian Boston, director into its rapidly growing, specialist financial services team. Mr Shepka joins the firm as an audit and assurance partner, bringing extensive experience in the

Johnston Carmichael’s Wealth team has placed as number one in the FTAdviser’s annual ranking of the Top 100 financial advisers for the second year in a row. The industry recognition follows Johnston Carmichael’s Wealth team’s ongoing adoption of innovative processes for clien

Johnston Carmichael has enhanced its restructuring & insolvency team with the appointment of Neil Dempsey as restructuring director in its Aberdeen base. Mr Dempsey joins from Cayman Islands based international asset recovery firm KRyS Global, where he specialised in offshore focused fraud inves

Scottish accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael has reported its most successful year for its corporate finance division, surpassing £600 million worth of deals. The team, led by partner and head of corporate finance Graham Alexander, successfully executed 43 deals, with a total value of &p

In support of Ninewells Cancer Campaign, which funds cancer treatments at the Ninewells Hospital, 15 staff from Johnston Carmichael's Dundee office took part in this year's Dundee Kiltwalk. Staff chose to back the charity in support of a colleague’s friend, who is currently receiving trea

Graeme Bain and Donald McNaught, of accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael, have been appointed as Joint Administrators of Scottish renewables company Sustainable Marine Energy Limited (SME). The Edinburgh-based company, which developed tidal energy systems, was placed into admin

An Inverness-based housebuilder that ceased trading earlier this year owed nearly £1 million to creditors Ptarmigan Homes left 25 projects unfinished when it collapsed in April.

Adam Hardie discusses the implications of the new alcohol duty rules set to come into effect next week, which are predicted to impact the entire drinks sector, with particular benefits for producers of low and no-alcohol beverages. Major change is brewing in the drinks sector. On August 1, 2023, new

Stewart Pennington writes about the challenges faced by food and drink manufacturers in the past year due to rising raw material costs, labour shortages, and the impact of Brexit, and discusses various strategies adopted by companies to manage these issues. The last 12 months have been an extraordin