Here are the top business stories making the headlines in the morning newspapers.
Granite City parking-permit prices could more than triple
Aberdeen City Council parking-permit prices could soar to £200 a year for residents of the city centre.
The Press and Journal says councillors have been recommended to approve major parking charge rises across the Granite City from spring next year.
On-street and off-street parking fees could go up by 10% from April 1 and then 5% each following year for four years.
And, from the same date, the cost of an annual residential parking permit for some city-centre areas could go from the current £60 per permit to £200.
And that £200 cost would also go up by 5% each of the subsequent years for four years.
In a report from officers urging councillors to approve the changes, it has been noted that the proposals could be "contentious and attract negative feedback".
Biggest fraud case in German history
The former head of disgraced German payment company Wirecard is due to go on trial later charged over the biggest fraud case in the country's history.
Markus Braun presided over its meteoric rise from modest beginnings to one of Germany's big banking beasts.
Financiers and politicians were dazzled by Wirecard's success until its equally-spectacular collapse into ignominy.
The BBC says the setting for the opening of tomorrow's trial is a high-security courtroom at Stadelheim prison in Munich.
Mr Braun, who was Wirecard's chief executive, is being held at the jail in pre-trial custody and denies any wrongdoing.
Two other ex-managers are also on trial. Oliver Bellenhaus was head of Wirecard's Dubai subsidiary while Stephan von Erffa was in charge of accounting. They face several years in prison if convicted.
Sunny sent to jail
Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the business partner of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, has been sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison.
The BBC says Balwani was convicted in July of 12 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in the failed US blood-testing start-up.
Theranos executives falsely claimed the product could diagnose illnesses with a few drops of blood from a finger prick.
Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison last month.
Balwani did not speak as he was sentenced to 155 months in prison at the end of a nearly four-hour sentencing hearing on Wednesday. His lawyers say that, like Holmes, he plans to file an appeal.
Drop in British house prices
UK house prices saw their biggest drop in 14 years in November, falling 2.3%, reflecting "volatility" in the market, according to mortgage lender Halifax.
November marks the third month in a row during which prices have fallen with potential buyers playing safe by delaying purchases.
The average UK house price in November was £285,579.
Higher mortgage rates, economic uncertainty, and the rising cost of living are all affecting the market.
The BBC says the annual rate of growth in property prices has now dropped from 8.2% to 4.7%.
SNP politician denies any deep divisions
Reports of deep divisions within the SNP are a "complete fiction", a senior MP has insisted.
Stewart Hosie was responding to claims that Stephen Flynn's victory over Alison Thewliss in the party's Westminster leadership contest showed the party was now split.
The BBC reported that Mr Hosie said "not one word of that is true" and he had "no idea where these stories have come from".
Ms Thewliss is seen as being a close ally of Nicola Sturgeon.
But she lost by 26 votes to 17 to Mr Flynn - the MP for Aberdeen South - in a ballot of the party's MPs on Tuesday evening.
North Sea strikes
Unite says its members will stick to their guns as a new round of work stoppages commence on North Sea assets, in what the union has called an "increasingly-bitter dispute" over pay and conditions.
Energy Voice says more than 220 Petrofac workers are carrying out strikes for 48 hours on BP and Repsol Sinopec platforms.