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ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø and Microsoft have announced a significant expansion of their global relationship that will reshape professional services across a number of business-critical areas including workforce modernization, safe and secure development, and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for clients, industries and society more broadly.

The collaboration, which spans more than a decade, underpinned by this major expansion will benefit ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø firmsâ€� core business areas in the following ways:

By infusing data analytics, AI and Azure Cognitive Services into the audit process, through the ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø smart audit platform ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø Clara, 85,000 audit professionals who collectively work on hundreds of thousands of audits a year will be empowered to focus more closely on higher-risk areas of the audit, sector-specific risks and challenges â€� to the benefit of both stakeholders and capital markets. This integration also opens up new market opportunities for ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø professionals and their clients. For example, with the integration of Microsoft Fabric, ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø teams will have the ability to directly point to client data instead of having to ingest it, which is a key component to helping enable ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø professionals to perform audits on a more real time basis.

Integrating Azure OpenAI Service and Microsoft Fabric into ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø Digital Gateway, a ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø single platform solution, will give clients access to the full suite of ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø Tax & Legal technologies, and allow them to gain more integrated and transparent access to their data and take a more holistic management approach to their tax functions. This was demonstrated most recently through a co-developed AI solution using the Azure OpenAI Service that helps to analyze environmental, social and governance (ESG) data, establish data patterns and draft ESG tax transparency reports, all at increased speed and scale. Additionally, ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø firms will operate a generative-AI powered “virtual assistantâ€� to create new client service models to help tax professionals become more efficient. It will also help with revenue-generating opportunities such as product experience enhancements and knowledge management for complex tax laws.

Developing an AI-enabled application development and knowledge platform on Microsoft Azure will expedite the creation of specialized solutions for clients, helping to enhance their competitive advantage and profitability while putting ethics and security at the very core of the offerings. The benefits and ongoing success of this continued collaboration already include a joint engagement with Coca-Cola EuroPacific Partners (CCEP) of which Peter Brickley, Chief Information Officer at CCEP said, “ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø and Microsoft are working together with Coca-Cola EuroPacific Partners on innovative use cases which pioneer improvements to back-office efficiency using generative AI on the Azure platform. By using this new technology, we will prepare our organization for the future, improve our employee experience and support our growth ambitions globally.â€�

ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø professionals will work together with Microsoft to help support businesses with their ESG agendas. Building on the success of the ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø Circularity Tracker and , both of which have Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability and Microsoft Azure at their core, joint teams will continue to help clients to unify their data sources, leverage the required inputs to help make real-time value-add decisions, and help them to deliver on their sustainability commitments.

In addition, to enhance the commercial prospects of the agreement, ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø and Microsoft will continue to explore and participate in joint opportunities where they can work together to drive social and community impact worldwide. These currently include the UNESCO  and the ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø 10x30 strategy to help economically empower 10 million underprivileged youths by 2030 â€� through education, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. The companies will also continue to work together to enhance the reliability of carbon accounting through the  to which both ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø and Microsoft were founding signatories.

Gerald Kasimu
Head of Advisory, ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø Africa
T: +254 (20) 2806000
E: [email protected]

ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø has a notable ‘African Footprintâ€� and is  well used to serving clients across the  continent. The firms are structured into clusters  that are aimed at facilitating efficiency in how  we work with our clients on the continent. These  clusters are West Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, Francophone and Angola. Angola is  specially individualised due to its use of the  Portuguese as the official business language.

We have 29 firms servicing 54 countries across  the continent offering a full range of Audit, Tax  and Advisory Services. With this coverage ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø is able to draw from a pool of resources  with a wide range of skills and experience,  enabling us to provide high quality services to  our clients. We are also able to offer  coordinated services where the client is  represented in different countries. These  countries operate as a cohesive region and  serve our clients in the French-speaking African nations. ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø has licensed offices in Angola,  Egypt, Morocco, Libya and Tunisia. Although these practices do not form part of ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø Africa  there are excellent working relationships in place with professionals in these offices through the ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø network. The rest of Africa is covered by ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø through a practice within the region. By undertaking assignments in neighbouring countries, we demonstrate our ability to serve our clientsâ€� needs wherever they operate in Africa.

ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø is a global organization of independent professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø is the brand under which the member firms of ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø International Limited (“ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø Internationalâ€�) operate and provide professional services. “ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍøâ€� is used to refer to individual member firms within the ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø organization or to one or more member firms collectively.

ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø firms operate in 143 countries and territories with more than 265,000 partners and employees working in member firms around the world. Each ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø firm is a legally distinct and separate entity and describes itself as such. Each ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø member firm is responsible for its own obligations and liabilities.

ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø International Limited is a private English company limited by guarantee. ÀÖÓ㣨Leyu£©ÌåÓý¹ÙÍø International Limited and its related entities do not provide services to clients.

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