Audit, compliance & continuous monitoring
Certify your accounts, check your compliance, monitor your operations continuously and investigate anomalies.
Audit, accounting and advisory
Trust is built on evidence.
CFEC-Afrique is an audit, accounting and advisory firm based in Ouagadougou. We audit your financial statements, manage your accounting, help secure tax compliance and continuously monitor your operations using next-generation tools developed in-house.
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*Your need
What do you want to do?
- Have your accounts audited
- Hand over your bookkeeping
- File your taxes or prepare for a tax inspection
- Manage payroll and staff
- Set up a company or keep it in good legal order
- Prepare a business plan or a financing file
- Have a donor-funded project audited
- Count your fixed assets and your stock
- Outsource your internal audit
- Digitalise and secure your processes
- Choose SaaS modules or a custom ERP
- Recruit a member of staff
Our services
Six practices, twenty-three service lines, one standard.
From certifying accounts to securing your data, by way of tax, business law, payroll and automated inventory: we cover all your needs.
Accounting & inventories
Keep your books, automate your inventories and support your management functions.
Legal, tax & payroll
Secure your taxes, your companies and the management of your staff.
Strategy, finance & projects
Assess your projects and support investment and growth decisions.
People & skills
Recruit, support your teams and build their capacity.
Technology & AI
Digitalise your processes, build your ERP, secure your documents, access and data, and put AI to work.
Everything under one roof.
A multidisciplinary team, a single point of contact, one method.
Your industry
Every industry has its rules. We know them.
Photographs taken in Burkina Faso illustrate the sectors we serve.
Agribusiness
Processors, exporters, cooperatives and food-processing units.
Banks, microfinance & insurance
Banks, financial institutions, microfinance and mesofinance institutions, insurance companies.
Construction & infrastructure
Construction companies, engineering firms and project owners.
Development projects, NGOs, associations & international organisations
International organisations. National and international NGOs, foundations, associations, development projects and programmes.
Education & teaching
Private schools, universities, institutes and education projects.
Energy
Electricity producers, solar projects, distributors of petroleum products and gas.
Government & public sector
The State, public establishments, state-owned companies and local authorities.
Healthcare
Hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and donor-funded health programmes.
Mining & extractives
Mining companies, contractors and local suppliers.
Services
Firms, agencies, hotels and business-services companies.
Telecommunications
Operators, access providers, tower companies, distributors and contractors.
Trade & distribution
Importers, wholesalers, distributors, supermarkets and chains of shops.
Transport & logistics
Hauliers, freight forwarders, logistics providers, warehouse operators and passenger carriers.
Frameworks & standards
Accounting frameworks, the same rigour.
Not all financial statements follow the same rules. We prepare, convert and audit accounts in the framework required by your legal status, your shareholders or your donors. We also support NGOs, development projects and public-sector entities with donor reporting under INPAS, IPSAS or GASB standards, according to the applicable framework and financing agreements.
Our audits follow ISA and, for groups listed in the United States, PCAOB standards; our internal control work follows the COSO framework and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Understand the frameworksStatutory accounts
Revised SYSCOHADA CompaniesSYCEBNL Associations, NGOs and projectsWAMU PCB Banks and financial institutionsSFD framework Microfinance and mesofinanceCIMA Code Insurance and reinsuranceInternational reporting
IFRS International groups and listed companiesUS GAAP US groupsFrench PCG French groupsINPAS NGOs and non-profit organisationsIPSAS Governments and other public-sector entitiesGASB U.S. state and local governments
Donors
We know what your donors require.
Each donor has its own eligibility rules, reporting formats and audit terms of reference. We apply them engagement after engagement to secure your funding, from the financing agreement to project closure.
- Multilateral development banks
- United Nations system
- European Union
- Bilateral cooperation
- Global funds
- Foundations & international NGOs
Technology & AI
Digitalise, secure, trace.
CFEC-Afrique builds and uses its own tools: an in-house AI, an inventory platform, documents that can be verified by QR code. We put them to work on your processes, your documents and your data.
Artificial intelligence applied to your business
Put AI to work on your documents, your figures and your controls, within a safe framework.
Process & data digitalisation
Replace paper, re-keying and scattered files with digital workflows followed from end to end.
Custom ERP & modular SaaS
Two offerings: ready-to-use modular financial SaaS solutions, and ERP systems built around your processes.
Asset management software
The software we supply to track your fixed assets, your property and your inventories.
Tamper-proof documents & digital archiving
Documents anyone can verify with one scan, and archives found in seconds.
Access control & traceability
Know who comes in, who has access to what, and find the trace of every transaction.
Data & communications security
Protect your data, your exchanges and your backups against loss, theft and prying eyes.
Our in-house AI & your data
An AI designed by the firm; your data stays protected.
ERP & FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS
Two offerings, for different needs.
Choose ready-to-use SaaS modules for your financial needs, or commission an ERP built around your organisation’s processes.
Ready-to-use modular SaaS
Existing financial solutions, available online by subscription. Choose the modules you need without starting a custom ERP development project.
Explore SaaS modulesCustom ERP
An ERP designed around your processes: requirements, configuration, custom development and integrations. A supported project tailored to your organisation.
Plan a custom ERP projectFrom annual checks to continuous monitoring.
In Burkina Faso, continuous monitoring amounts to outsourcing the internal control and internal audit function. We provide it with tools that extract your data, test all your transactions and flag anomalies when they occur, not at year end.
Discover continuous monitoringPoint-in-time controlOne intervention, once the year is closed.
Continuous monitoringTool-based follow-up, month after month.
The firm
A Burkinabè firm, working to international standards.
Based in Ouagadougou, CFEC-Afrique brings together professionals in audit, accounting, tax, advisory and technology. We work closely with your teams, with the discipline of documentation that international standards demand.
Independence
Our conclusions depend on the facts alone.
Rigour
Work that is documented, reviewed and traceable.
Confidentiality
Professional secrecy covers every engagement.
Proximity
A named contact and a direct dialogue.
- Name
- CFEC-Afrique SAS
- Legal form
- Société par actions simplifiée (SAS), simplified joint-stock company
- Trade register (RCCM)
- BF-OUA-01-2025-M-19621
- Tax ID (IFU)
- 00062964M-DME-CI/RNI
- Registered office
- Quartier Bilbalogho, Secteur 01, parcelle M, lot 280 bis, Section AE, Centre Ouaga, titre foncier 761, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Postal address
- S/C 01 BP 6785 Ouagadougou 01
- Telephone
- +226 25 40 81 99
- Website
- www.cfec-afrique.com
Insights
Analysis & perspectives
Points of reference to inform your financial and organisational decisions.
Frameworks & standards
SYCEBNL: what the new framework changes for NGOs and projects
Since 1 January 2024, non-profit entities in the OHADA zone have had their own accounting system. The points to deal with first.
Read the article 4 min Audit & controlContinuous monitoring: why wait for year end?
Moving from an annual check to continuous monitoring changes when anomalies are discovered, and therefore what they cost.
Read the article 3 min Finance & reportingFrom accounting reports to management: asking the right questions
How to tie your accounting data to the questions that matter for your organisation.
Read the article 3 minLet’s talk about your priorities.
An audit, an inventory, a recruitment or a digitalisation project: we start by understanding what you need.
+226 25 40 81 99
Quartier Bilbalogho, Secteur 01, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso