Angelo Kehayas

Dr Friday Wada is a Financial Management analyst with over twenty years’ experience in Public Accounting, Auditing, Forensic Accounting and Budgeting. Dr Wada has previously worked as a Zonal Accountant and Chief Internal Auditor with the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation. He was also a pool accountant in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation. While in government service, Dr Wada served as a consulting accountant to the Ministerial panel of inquiry into the Nigeria Hotels board (1999-2000). Dr Wada has also made a debut with the Integrated Public Sector Accounting Information Systems while working with the Louisiana State University Health Sciences in Baton Rouge, USA. In the last ten years, Dr Wada has been involved in Management Consulting Services across the Atlantic for corporate executives, financial managers, policy makers and Administrators. Dr Wada’s research interest is in the area of Forensic Accounting and Financial Cyber Crime. His work has been published in International journals and has made scholarly presentations at conferences. He is a recipient of the US IGERT/NSF Fellowship award. He is the President, Trans-Atlantic Management Consultants. His academic and research engagements in Nigeria has taken him to Federal University Wukari, Taraba State where he worked as a senior lecturer in Accounting. He also worked as the Director, Centre for Financial and Accounting Research (CEFAR) at the Nigerian college of Accountancy Jos Plateau State. He moved thereafter to Nasarawa State University as a senior lecturer in Accounting and Director, Institute of Governance and Development Studies of the University. Dr Wada is also the principal partner of F.Josiah Wada & Co. (Accounting firm) serving private and public company clients either as accounting consultants or external auditors. The firm’s services include: Setting up accounting systems for start-up clients, accounting manual preparation, financial statements preparation, financial planning, auditing, Payroll, Cash Management, Budgeting, corporate income tax returns, risk assessment and expatriate quota processing. Dr Wada is also a registered agent with the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria. He was until recently the Senior Auditor, Southeastern Louisiana University Hammond, Louisiana and currently a visiting professor, Barney School of Business University of Hartford Connecticut, United States.

Qualification: Friday Wada has a Ph.D in Public policy ( Finance) and a Master’s degree in Business administration (MBA) from Southern University and A &M College Baton Rouge, LA USA. He also holds a Master of Science degree in Accounting & Finance from De Montfort University Leicester, United Kingdom; Bachelor of Science Degree and Diploma in Accounting from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He is a member of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria, the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, the Certified Public Accountants Association UK, the Institute of Certified Forensic Accountant Canada and a Project Management Professional (PMP).