Grant Thornton Uganda

Background
Grant Thornton Uganda has emerged from an audit firm that was established in 1939 as A.M.Shah & Sons. With a team of over 50 people, we are the sixth largest professional services firm in Uganda offering a wide range of business advisory services in addition to audit, tax and outsourcing services.

We are particularly strong in our tax consultancy services. Many new entrants to the Ugandan and African emerging markets choose us as their preferred financial partners to give them a solid foundation in an exciting new area of business opportunity.

Our office is located in Kampala with a branch in Jinja from where we serve clients around the Eastern region.
We work closely with the Grant Thornton member firms in Africa and around the world. This means we can offer our clients access to services from around the network to establish and grow their business in the region.

Experience of the firm
We have over 50 years experience of working in African conditions and a reputation for diligence, knowledge and independence. We reckon that at present we are 6th largest firm in Uganda, and the only firm having two offices i.e. Kampala and Jinja.

Mission
Our mission, as an organization of professionals, is to service our clients by understanding them and helping them identify their needs.

We are committed to providing the most efficient and expeditious services, while always maintaining the highest ethical standards.

As our client, you can expect:

• Close, individualized client contact
• Broad-based business and financial expertise
• Services that are proactive, timely and consistently high in quality
• Our anticipation of your operational and financial needs
• Seasoned veterans in specialized areas such as:

- Tax and business services
- assurance - commercial
- assurance - not-for-profit
- management consulting.

Philosophy
At Grant Thornton, our most important assets are our people and our reputation. We are committed to excellence, both internally and externally. For this reason, we encourage and invest in the training of our people and in continuing education to further develop their professional abilities.

In return, we require that, above all else, our professionals use their talents to achieve and maintain total client satisfaction. That's simply because, at Grant Thornton, we put the best interests of our clients first.

We insist on giving our clients individual attention, and achieve this by listening to our clients and communicating with them openly, promptly, frequently and effectively. Our staff members are dynamic professionals who are always interested in helping our clients achieve their goals.

It is the Grant Thornton philosophy to provide clients with a team of professionals who combine local expertise with an overall global perspective.