Ahmed Zakari & Co. (Chartered Accountants) is a firm of chartered accountants licensed and approved by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) to practice Accountancy. The firm is also registered by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to act as Reporting Accountants. The firm operates as a centralized coordinated organisation with one central office in Kano and one branch offices in Lagos.
To date, the firm has four Partners and employs twenty two (22) professional staff, some of whom are qualified chartered accountants, chartered tax practitioners or MBA’s while some others are in various stages of professional qualification.
The firm, together with its partners and senior managers combined, have to date provided professional services to more than one hundred (100) clients nationwide. The firm guarantees a consistently high quality service through Partners, Consultants, Managers and Associates who share a common business culture, speak a common business language and most, have a common training background.
The overriding aim of their partners, consultants, managers and associates is to ensure that the firm’s professional reputation with its clients - often developed over many years - is based upon mutual trust, engendered by the maintenance of the highest ethical standards. These ethical standards include the need to be, and the need to be seen to be, professionally independent in all the work they do and to treat all the information they receive from clients in the strictest professional confidence.
To achieve teamwork with a client, the firm strives to develop an understanding of the client’s organisation and to create a rapport with its people. Developing a constructive relationship with the client is a prerequisite for a successful relationship. No two businesses are alike, no two problems are the same; clients don’t share the same style.
From its origin in 1995, Ahmed Zakari & Co. has expanded and developed into one of Nigeria’s fastest growing, indigenous, independent professional accounting, auditing, taxation and business consulting practices. Backed by a multi-disciplined team of professionals comprising accountants, lawyers, insolvency, tax and investment specialists, the firm, through its operating companies - Everest Capital and Consulting Limited, AZ Tax Consulting and Ahmed Zakari & Co. (Chartered Accountants) has been able to tailor its services to the needs of its clients. The overriding aim is to make the maximum contribution to the success of each and every client.
Mission & Vision
They at Ahmed Zakari & Co. (Chartered Accountants) offer all their clients their personal, corporate and professional guarantee of:
Confidentiality and Privacy
To offer all their clients the highest level of confidentiality, privacy and discretion in dealing with their personal and corporate affairs.
Value
To offer all their clients, wherever they may be in the world, an expeditious, cost-effective, value for money service. Primarily, their strategy hinges on an unwavering commitment to client satisfaction. This is their competitive advantage.
Quality and Excellence
To offer their clients a consistently high quality of professional service and to strive for excellence in all that they do. They are in constant pursuit of new avenues of enhancing their services.
Integrity
To act at all times with honesty and integrity within legislative and regulatory requirements and to decline to act if the possibility of any conflict of interest arises.
