DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 23 -- AS Tanzania accelerates economic reforms, deepens regional integration and positions itself as a serious destination for global investment, one question has become increasingly central to the national conversation who advises the advisors?

In an era of heightened accountability, digitalised tax systems and complex cross-border capital flows, professional services firms play a quiet but decisive role in shaping how value is created, regulated and retained within the economy.

Their conduct can strengthen institutions or erode them. It is against this backdrop of national interest that Andersens official entry into Tanzania must be understood.

On the evening of the firms launch, Philip Muema, Head of Andersen in ...