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WIA East Africa (formerly Wachira Irungu & Associates), which was established in 1979, is a leading audit and assurance, Accounting and management consulting firm 100% owned and managed by Kenyan nationals. The firm currently offers a full range of professional services which includes audit and assurance, accounting, financial management, consulting, corporate finance, taxation, internal audit, strategic management, human resources management, training and development, private sector development, public sector analysis and development, local government management and technical support, corporate governance, ICT consultancy, outsourcing, business development and other advisory services, The firm’s head office is in Nairobi, with a branch office in Nyeri.

In its 39 years of existence, WIA firm has successfully undertaken numerous audit and consultancy assignments for private sector organizations and public enterprises in East Africa, particularly in the areas of organization restructuring and public sector reforms, with a bias in the Tea Sector, Water Sector and Local Government financial management and reforms. Our clients have included medium and large private organizations, NGOs, public enterprises and government departments, and projects funded by development agencies such as IDA, World Bank, AfDB, EC, DFID, KfW, GTZ, AFD, SIDA, JICA, EIB and PROPARCO, among others.

Over the years, we have built a reputation founded on our ability to develop fresh, innovative business solutions that bring real value-added benefits to our diverse clients in the public, private, co-operative movement and NGO sectors that are delivered by a core team of qualified professionals in a unique spirit of openness, respect, integrity and full commitment to quality.

WIA is currently powered by a team of over sixty (60) qualified and experienced professional and support staff and a large pool of multi-disciplinary associate consultants and experts, always on hand to serve the various specialized needs of our clients. Our staff and associates are familiar with the firm’s mission, business objectives and fully dedicated to the level of quality that we promise and achieve for our clients. The repository of expertise that we have ranges from business advisory and information management consultants, to corporate governance from accountants, trainers and business counsellors to economists and marketing experts