About the firm
A practice built on one simple promise: no surprises.
Ledgerline Partners started in 2009 with two partners who believed owner managed companies deserved the same quality of advice as multinationals, delivered with more patience.
Seventeen years, 340 clients, and not one return filed on the last day.
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Our story
How we got here.
- 2009
Two partners, one room
Adaeze Okonkwo and Tunde Bakare leave a large firm to start a practice for owner managed companies.
- 2013
Outsourced finance begins
A client asks us to run their books and payroll. Today the team handles 120 companies.
- 2017
Move to Broad Street
The firm takes a full floor in Marina and passes 30 people.
- 2021
Advisory practice
Babatunde Lawal joins to lead due diligence, modelling and part time CFO work.
- 2024
Cloud by default
Every outsourced client moves to cloud books with receipts captured by phone.
- 2026
Seventeen years on
Eleven partners and directors, 340 clients and the same phone number.
What we believe
Four rules we hold each other to.
- 01Get it rightAccuracy before speed, and speed before excuses.
- 02Say it plainlyIf a client cannot follow our advice, it is not good advice.
- 03Be earlyDeadlines are for the tax office. Our dates are ten days before theirs.
- 04Stay independentWe turn down work that would compromise an audit or a tax opinion.
The office
Sixth floor, Broad Street.
Five minutes from the Marina waterfront, with parking for visitors and a generator that has never once failed during a client meeting. Abuja clients meet us at a partner office in Wuse 2 by appointment.
Memberships
Regulated and accountable.
Our partners are members of the national accountancy and tax practitioner institutes. The firm is a member of an independent international network of mid sized accounting firms, which gives our clients contacts in 40 countries.
- Registered audit firm
- Chartered tax practitioners
- Member, independent international accounting network (example)
- Data protection compliant client portal
They told us in the first meeting that our previous accounts would not survive an audit. They were right, and they fixed it.
Start with a forty minute conversation.
Tell us what is keeping you up at night: a tax letter, a late audit, a payroll that never balances. We will tell you plainly what we would do and what it would cost.