• K stands for Klynveld. Piet Klynveld founded the accounting firm Klynveld Kraayenhof & Co. in Amsterdam in 1917.
• P is for Peat. William Barclay Peat founded the accounting firm William Barclay Peat & Co. in London in 1870.
• M stands for Marwick. James Marwick founded the accounting firm Marwick, Mitchell & Co. with Roger Mitchell in New York City in 1897.
• G is for Goerdeler. Dr. Reinhard Goerdeler was for many years chairman of Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft and later chairman of KPMG. He is credited with laying much of the groundwork for the KMG merger.

The firm’s involvement in East Africa goes back to 1949, when an office was opened in Kenya and operated as Angus, Lawrie and Jeremy. A few years later, the name of the firm changed to Peat Marwick, Mitchell and Co. and the firm operated as such until the late 80s, when, as a result of the international merger between Peat Marwick International and Klynveld Main Goerdeler, KPMG was created.

Expansion into the region came in the mid 90s with the setting up of offices in Dar-es- Salaam and Kampala and in the years that followed, the creation of correspondent offices in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rwanda and the Seychelles. Within a short period, KPMG gained recognition as a leading provider of audit, tax and advisory services in the East Africa region.

1949	Angus Lawrie and Co.
1960s	Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co.
1987	KPMG Peat Marwick – Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler
2002	KPMG