The white paper Scotland's Future identified five key reasons that a currency union "would be in both Scotland and the UK's interests immediately post-independence": Scotland's main trading partner is the UK (⅔ of exports in 2011); "companies operating in Scotland and the UK complex cross-border supply chains"; there is high labour mobility; "on key measurements of an optimal currency area, the Scottish and UK economies score well"; and short-term economic trends in the UK and Scotland have "a relatively high degree of synchronicity".
白皮书《苏格兰的未来》确定货币联盟的五大关键原因“关乎苏格兰和英国独立后的即刻利益”：苏格兰的主要贸易伙伴英国（2011年出口量占三分之二）“苏格兰和英国的跨国公司供应链复杂”，劳动力有较高流动性，在最优货币区的关键测量上，苏格兰和英国有较好的经济成绩，英国和苏格兰的短期经济区趋势有较高同步程度。