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Nov 19 2019

The Law Society of Scotland Financial Benchmarking Survey 2019

Categories: Professions

The Law Society of Scotland recently released its annual edition of the Financial Benchmarking Report, giving an insight into current trends and performance of the legal sector. Head of EQ Professions, Mark Gibson, commented; “The Law Society of Scotland Financial Benchmarking Survey gives Scottish legal practices the opportunity to assess their performance relative to the more

Nov 14 2019

The ongoing review of auto-enrolment

Categories: EQ AccountingHealthcare

As mentioned in our previous article, auto-enrolment (AE) was introduced to help people save for later life through a pension scheme at work. Although all eligible workers should now be enrolled in their employer’s workplace pension scheme, it is the continued responsibility of employers to constantly monitor the information to avoid any potential fallouts. Here are more

Nov 5 2019

Due diligence on the sale of your business

Categories: Corporate Finance

For every sale of a business, there will be a due diligence process – essentially a ‘health check’ of your business to ensure that there are no surprises for the buyer. Even before you have found a prospective buyer, you should start to think about what questions they may ask about your business. If you more

Oct 29 2019

Electric Vehicles – a tax efficient employee benefit

Categories: TaxationTechnology

Following on from our previous article which considered the tax implications of purchasing a car for use in your business, we now discuss why it is the optimum time to purchase an Electric Vehicle (EV). According to Auto Express, some of the best EV’s to buy in 2019 include brands such as Tesla, Jaguar, Mercedes more

Oct 25 2019

State Pension – to claim or not to claim?

Categories: Agriculture

The average age of a UK farmer is now 59 and with changes to the State Pension regime, it may be time to consider how these may affect you. The full basic state pension is currently worth £8,767.20 a year and you can check when you are entitled to claim using the H M Revenue more

Oct 25 2019

Significant purchase activity in the hotel sector

Categories: Leisure

In the past two years particularly, our specialist leisure team has seen a spike in the volume of hotels being bought and sold in Scotland, many of which we have been directly involved in. Whilst there have been a number of ‘corporate purchasers’, there is still strong demand from independent operators and from the overseas more

Oct 24 2019

The first steps to protecting your charity against internal fraud

Categories: Charities

You may be surprised to read that fraud in charities is an underlying problem. Higher profile cases such as Birmingham Dogs Home, where the chief executive was imprisoned for stealing £650,000 from the charity, are thankfully few and far between. The majority of chief executives and Trustees enter the charity sector to make a difference more