May 2024
Stephen is an experienced accounting professional with over forty years of experience in the fields of assurance, business advisory, taxation and corporate reporting, including thirty-five years in Papua New Guinea.
Mr Beach trained in London for five years with Ball Baker Chartered Accountants and then Arthur Young (now EY). After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, in June 1985 he left England and came to PNG as an audit supervisor with Coopers & Lybrand in Arawa, Bougainville. After four years, in 1989 he left Bougainville and returned to England but in June 1992 he returned to PNG as an audit manager with Coopers, now PwC, in Port Moresby, being made a partner in 1996. Mr Beach remained a partner of PwC until he resigned from the partnership in 2019. He is now a principal of Beach Accounting Advisory (BAA Consulting Limited), providing tax, advisory and audit services to predominantly family-owned businesses in PNG.
Mr Beach is involved with the Certified Practicing Accountants of PNG, having previously served as a council member for seven years, being a past Vice-President, and chairing both the Standards and the Conference & CPE Committees. He has also been a member of the Accounting Standards Board and an alternate member of the Accountants Registration Board.
