Mdawida LLP is a partner-led audit, tax, and advisory firm. We give boards and founders across East Africa numbers they can trust, and the financial capability to grow.
Partner-led
Senior attention on every file
IFRS · IPSAS
International reporting standards
6 markets
Served across East Africa
One team
Audit, tax, and advisory together
Reporting to international standards
Too many businesses in the region experience professional services as a once-a-year compliance exercise, disconnected from the decisions that actually move the business. We close that gap.
On one side, assurance and tax work to international standards, the kind that satisfies regulators, lenders, and boards. On the other, the strategic finance thinking that helps a business absorb capital and grow. The two belong together.
From the audit that satisfies your board to the advisory that gets you funded, we work as one team across the full financial picture.
Assurance that stands up to scrutiny.
Independent, evidence-driven assurance that gives boards, lenders, and regulators confidence in the numbers. We audit to international standards while staying close to the realities of businesses in East Africa.
Explore Audit
Compliant today, planned for tomorrow.
Practical tax and regulatory support that keeps you compliant with the Kenya Revenue Authority and regional authorities while structuring for efficiency. We turn tax from a year-end scramble into a managed part of the business.
Explore Tax
Strategic finance for scalable growth.
CFO-grade thinking for founders and boards, from investment readiness to transactions. We help you build the financial capability to absorb capital and convert it into sustainable growth.
Explore AdvisoryWe keep our partners close to the work. That means senior attention on every file and advice you can actually act on.
We say what the numbers say. Our assurance means something because our judgement is never for sale.
IFRS, IPSAS, and tax law applied with precision, then translated into decisions you can act on.
Senior people on every engagement. You work directly with the professionals accountable for the work.
We do more than sign off on the past. We help you build the financial capability to scale.
We bring sector fluency to the numbers, from SACCOs and agribusiness to donor-funded programmes and scaling technology ventures.
SACCOs, microfinance, fintech, and banks navigating tight regulation and capital adequacy.
Growth-stage and founder-led businesses building the systems to scale and attract capital.
Producers and distributors managing margins, working capital, and complex supply chains.
Value-chain players from farm to export, balancing seasonality, grants, and growth.
Developers and contractors managing project accounting, financing, and compliance.
Development organisations delivering donor assurance, IPSAS reporting, and grant compliance.
Early and scaling ventures that need investor-ready finance and clean cap tables.
Capital-intensive projects requiring rigorous modelling, controls, and reporting.
A Certified Public Accountant and strategic finance leader, Kennedy founded the firm to bring partner-led rigour and genuine growth advice to businesses across the region.
Practical thinking on the tax, assurance, and advisory questions facing businesses in the region right now.
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