Stuart is director and head of technical and compliance at Duncan & Toplis.
Since joining the team in 2018, Stuart has led the technical developments for the business, covering audit, financial reporting and maintaining quality of work. He supports the continuous improvement of our processes by utilising Lean Six Sigma methodology.
In 2021, Stuart was appointed to Duncan & Toplis’ operations board and became a member of the ICAEW’s influential Ethics Advisory Committee (EAC). As a committee member, he gives advice on complicated or precedent-setting cases and contributes to the development of new guidance and other policy issues.
In March 2024, the UK government set out intended regulatory changes to the non-financial reporting framework, focusing on reducing regulation on companies […]
After several years of intense debate, research and questioning, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has released the long-awaited […]
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Recently, the audit industry has been hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons. High-profile corporate failures are being blamed on auditors, […]
Associate Director for Quality and Technical Assurance, Stuart A. Brown discusses a popular legal structure for charitable entities – Charitable Incorporated Organisations […]
Associate Director for Quality and Technical Assurance, Stuart A. Brown discusses the definition of development costs and instances where development costs may […]
