KCAU is located on Thika Road in Ruaraka, Nairobi, Kenya.

[1] The institution also maintains satellite colleges under the School of Professional Programmes in Nairobi CBD Githunguri, Kericho, Eldoret, Kisumu, Amagoro, and Kitengela.

Following a study by Chart Foulks Lynch CIPFA in the UK, Kenya College of Accountancy was founded in 1987-88.

The study concluded that the Kenyan economy required an additional four hundred qualified accountants yearly.

[2] KCA applied to the Commission for Higher Education (CHE) for university status in the year 2000, and on July 26, 2007, CHE awarded KCA a Letter of Interim Authority (LIA).