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Abdallah Ali-Nakyea

General Qualifications

Abdallah is the Managing Consultant of WTS Nakyea & Adebiyi. Abdallah has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Degree in Economics, a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Degree in Economics, as well as a Post-First Degree Bachelor of Laws (LLB) Degree, all from the University of Ghana, Legon. He has a BL from the Ghana School of Law and is a Member of the Ghana Bar Association.

He has a Diploma in Business Studies (Accounting Option) from Kumasi Polytechnic. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ghana (FCIT), a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Economists (FCCE) and a Certified Economic Policy Analyst (CEPA). Abdallah is also a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Book-Keepers (FICB). Abdallah is Master Tax Practitioner, South Africa (MTP-SA) as well as a Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana). Abdallah is a Council Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ghana. He was adjudged the Overall Best Student in the Part B Intermediate Examination of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana) in January 1991.

He has attended courses in Corporate Finance & Investment, Managerial Economics and Computer Applications & Research Methods organized by the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) in Nairobi, Kenya. He has also participated in the following courses organized by Coopers & Lybrand – “Coopers & Lybrand Uniform Audit Approach, Positive Audit”, “Audit Approach and Understanding Business”. He participated in a course, “The New Internal Revenue Service Law 2000 (Act 592) and its Implications”, organized by AA&K Consulting.

Experience Records

Abdallah was an Assistant Tax Manager in Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) where he handled the tax affairs of the Firm’s clients. He also handled receivership and liquidation assignments. He was a Resource Person on Taxation in courses and seminars organized by the Management Consultancy Department of the Firm. Some of the clients he handled when he was with Coopers & Lybrand included Ecobank Ghana Limited and its Subsidiaries, The Trust Bank Limited, National Investment Bank Limited, Home Finance Company limited, AT & T Global Information Solutions, Atlas Copco CME, Billiton Bogosu Gold Limited and Ghanaian Australian Goldfields Limited.

Abdallah was also a Senior Tax Consultant in the Tax and Corporate Advisory Services Department of KPMG. He was a member of the team that handled the acquisition of Achimota Brewery Company Limited (ABC) by Heineken B.V. of The Netherlands, as well as the successful merger between Achimota Brewery Company Limited and Kumasi Brewery Limited into what is now Ghana Breweries Limited. Some of the other companies whose assignments he handled while in KPMG included Mobil Oil Ghana Limited, CAL Merchant Bank Limited, Nestle Ghana Limited, The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Ghana Limited, Minproc Ghana Pty Limted, SSB Bank Limited (now SG-SSB Bank Limted), Standard Chartered Bank Limited, Shell Ghana Limited, Scanship Limited, Maersk Line, Aluworks Limited, Total Ghana Limited and Pioneer Tobacco Company Limited.

Abdallah has also worked as the Group Chief Accountant of BCM Ghana/International Limited, managing the accounting system, tax affairs and finances of the company’s operations in Mali, Tanzania and Guinea. This involved the maintenance of accounting records in various currencies, generation of management reports for group reporting purposes, as well as preparation of statutory financial statements in accordance with Anglophone and Francophone tax requirements. He coordinated and resolved the VAT Audit carried out by the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) on the operations of the company in Tanzania saving BCM over $500,000.

Abdallah is a Lecturer in the Law of Taxation as well as Legal Accountancy at the Ghana School of Law. He also lectures in Taxation subjects at the HENT Financial Training Centre, an Evening School teaching courses of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, as well as that of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana) and he is an Examiner in Economics and Taxation for the Chartered Institute of Taxation. He is also a Consultant/Lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), where he lectures in Economics, Taxation and Accounting. He also lectures in Managerial Economics as well as Business Economics and Commerce, under the Masters in Business Administration and Postgraduate Diploma programmes run by Principal’s College, Accra for the Cambridge International College of the United Kingdom.

Abdallah is proficient in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Vision 5 and Sun Systems.

Key Experiences

Investment and Tax Planning and Update.
Tax Audit and Financial Audit.
VAT Expert
Expatriate and Senior Management Payroll.
Executive Search and Recruitment.
Receivership and Liquidation.
Mergers and Acquisitions.
Due Diligence.
Strategic Corporate Planning.
Investment and Corporate Advisory
Training and Publications.
Preparation of Business Plans and Strategic Plans

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WTS Nakyea & Adebiyi Contact

(Tax and Corporate Advisory Consultants) Room 207, Second Floor Geoman House Pigfarm Junction, Olusegun Obasanjo Way Accra, Ghana

Telephone Numbers :
+233 21 23 26 55 \| Ext. 207/208 +233 244 235 144/285 013 434

Email Address :
info@nakyea.com +233 244 235 144/285 013 434