BDO adds Ghana to its growing number of territories across Africa

BDO can now call Ghana home, as the SCG Chartered Accountants joins its network, effective 2024.

“Our clients are everywhere and if we want to elevate our business and the societies in which we operate, we must be where they are. We cannot ignore opportunities to give BDO a name in a new market,” says Bonga Mokoena, CEO of BDO in South Africa. “We have the ambition to be the key service provider to the Africa and international markets and through this strategic opportunity in Ghana, we can achieve that.”

SCG Audit (now BDO Ghana) operates from one office in Accra. The 45 people strong firm was formed in 2009 to provide audit, tax, accounting, and payroll services to the Ghana market. With years of experience consulting to medium-sized companies across a range of industries. The Institute of Chartered Accountants, ICAG, uses a 6-tier ranking system to rank firms in Ghana. The topmost ranking is A1*. SCG is classified as A1 and is one of 7 firms ranked in that category.

Managing Partner of BDO Ghana, George Katako is thrilled to be part of the BDO network under BDO South Africa’s guide.

“After working with BDO for many years, we felt strongly that joining BDO gives us a chance of sustaining growth, considering that growth depends on the quality of management,” says Katako.

“The BDO cluster approach to growing a business matches our culture. This approach is rooted in firms being tightly knit and operating as one firm across different geographies, resulting in more successful businesses,” says Katako.

Regional Director for the Africa network of BDO, Mark Stewart believes that this is great news for clients looking for support in this, growing, market, “We have referred work to their team for many years now and felt this was a natural progression, as part of our aim to be in the top African countries by GDP.” “George and his team have done a great job in growing their business, so we really hope to just enhance what they are doing through our resources and grow together”, concludes Stewart.

In Africa, BDO is predominantly amongst the top 3-5 firms in the countries within which they operate and have an office in the top nine African countries (by GDP) and representation across Africa through firms and referral firms, giving them access to every country in the continent.

BDO is present in 166 countries globally, with approximately 115,000 people working out of over 1,700 offices across the world.

BDO is located at Advantage Place, 8th Floor, 23 Mayor Road, Ridge West, Accra, Ghana

* This is based on the list of licensed firms that have fulfilled all the prescribed requirements of Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana. Firms have been categorised for the purposes of applying the appropriate licence fees. The criteria was on revenue levels, number of partners and number of qualified staff etc. as reported by firms. The categories range from A1 to D, with A1 being firms in the highest category and in that order.