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Reshaping audit with the Brydon report

Recommendations from the Brydon report will help to redefine the direction of the future of audit. Sophie Campkin offers an overview.

Background documents relating to Sir Donald Brydon’s research, independent review and report on the quality and effectiveness of audit are available on the GOV.UK website.

The government has published a list of Brydon’s recommendations (with helpful cross references to their locations in the report) in a PDF at 


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