By JAMES MUYANWA –

PKF Zambia Chartered Accountants, formerly Moores Rowland, has formally been launched in Zambia with a pledge for quality service delivery.
The firm was launched in Lusaka on Tuesday evening.
PKF regional director for Africa, Theo Vermaak, said that Zambia provided a lot of hope in terms of economic investments and hence the move by PKF International to invest in it through the former Moores Rowland Zambia.
He said that PKF International was positive about Zambia’s future economic outlook.
Mr Vermaak said this during the official launch of PKF Zambia at its head office in Lusaka’s Kabulonga area.
PKF International, of which PKF Zambia has become a member, is a global network of legally independent accounting and consulting practices with offices in 440 cities in 150 countries in five continents.
The opening of the PKF Zambia, therefore, signifies another positive step in unfolding economic development in the country.
Experts hope that PKF Zambia, which became operational in Zambia in January this year, will pick up where Moores Rowland left off, in providing quality accounting, taxation, corporate, general business advisory services in the country.
It currently operates in Lusaka, Livingstone and Ndola with a workforce of more than 120 direct and indirect employees, mainly accountants.
PKF Zambia managing partner, Anthony Ranjan said that his firm wanted to contribute towards the growth of the economic sector in the country.
He said in an interview on the sidelines of the launch that PKF Zambia saw the current challenges the country was facing as a passing phase.
Mr Ranjan said the difficulties that Zambia was going through were not unique to it but global ones which needed concerted efforts to overcome.
He said  members of the private sector, like PKF, had a role to play in helping to address the prevailing challenges.
“These challenges are just a passing phase and they are not unique to Zambia. They are a global problem, as we hear such reports from everywhere in the world,” he said.