Deloitte sees revenues lift for seventh year running

● UK arm jumps 13% to £ 859m as Scotland steps up

Accountancy major Deloitte has boosted its revenues by £ 340 million – or 11 per cent – to £ 3.38 billion, the seventh successive year of growth, as it today hails a “transformative” period in Scotland.

The results mark the second year running of double - digit growth, with UK consulting revenues rising 13.6 per cent to £859 min the 12 months to end- May 2017.

Audit and risk advisory work revenue also lifted 13 per cent to £ 932m, and financial advisory rose 1.5 per cent to £ 459m.

Delo it te, which employs about 600 in Scotland including main offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, opened its Greenhouse and Digital Studio in the Scottish capital in the period.

De loit te says it expects to add another 20 designers and software engineers to the new facilities over the next 12 months. In June, the group bought the seven- strong Leith digital design consultancy Market Gravity.

Steve Williams, Delo it te’ s seniorpartner in Scotland and Northern Ireland, said: “The last 12 months have been transform at ive for us in Scotland, as we’ve added a completely new range of capabilities to our offering and made steady progressacross the country.”

He said the opening of the Delo it te Greenhouse was a “pivot al moment” for the Scottish practice, enabling its clients to develop business-transforming digital and nondigital products.

Earlier this year,the firm hosted its inaugural Disrupt the Enterprise event in Scotland and hosted the country’ s first-ever Datath on, as it sought to support and capitalise on the burgeoning fintech and wider technology sectors.

David Sproul, chief executive of Deloitte, said the latest UK- wide results were “a good performance in a complex and uncertain market, which has been impacted by Brexit and theelections in the US and UK”.

Audit work contracts won by the group this year include BAE Systems, BP, Centrica and Glaxosmithkline, giving it a 26 per cent share of the FTSE 100 audit market.

Distributable profit for 2017 was flat year on year at £ 608m and average profit per equity partner was £ 865,000.

Sproule added that the risk advisory business had seen rising demand from clients for supplier risk, cyber and regulatory advice.

Deloitte’s financial advisor y arm advised on 87 merger and acquisition deals in the year, with a total value of more than £ 7bn.