The Green Accountant

Happy New Year 2012, from Volunteer Accountant Permjeet Brar in Cambodia

richardperrott1 — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:12:21 +0000

Volunteer Accountant Permjeet Brar, sends a New Year message to JustAccountancyJobs.com readers encouraging you to follow her lead to work with our partners Accounting for International Development. Permjeet responded to an email shot from JustAccountancyJobs.com regarding opportunities for accountants to volunteer overseas. She has been working closely with the staff at The Cambodian Acid Survivors Charity in Phnom Penh. Acid attacks are a pre-meditated form of violence that leaves survivors physically, socially and emotionally scarred. CASC was formed in March 2006 by its partner organization, the Children’s Surgical Centre (CSC) and is the only organization in Cambodia working with survivors of acid attacks using a holistic approach. For acid burn survivors CASC provides extensive support and skills training.

As the first AfID volunteer to work with CASC Permjeet’s main objective has been to conduct a detailed needs and capacity assessment of the organisation and its staff. This will form the basis of a more detailed and structured programme for other AfID volunteers visiting the organisation. Permjeet has also provided one to one coaching on all matters relating to the organisation’s finances and accounting including budget preparation and analysis, the review & implementation of financial controls and internal and external (donor) reporting.

Further information from Neil Jennings | Accounting for International Development UK Office: +44 (0)203 287 1177 | Website: www.afid.org.uk or full article here

If you would like to find out more about volunteering and the international development sector, you are welcome to attend one of the AFID workshops in 2012. Each one is delivered by John Cammack, ex Oxfam FD and experienced consultant in the non-profit sector. Places are available on the 27 January, 02 March and 13 April workshops in 2012 For more info click here.

Challenges Worldwide : Volunteer Accountants Wanted

richardperrott1 — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:49:58 +0000

Challenges Worldwide began in 1999 by providing volunteers with an opportunity to use their professional skills in a developing country context. Since then, Challenges Worldwide has expanded rapidly, now working across Latin America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia.

Challenges Worldwide is a leading international development charity that recruits, trains and manages expert volunteers to carry out short assignments for social enterprise in developing countries. Challenges Worldwide uses its specially designed management tools to work with organisations to identify their operational strengths and weaknesses. Accountancy volunteers work with organisations providing business development services and technical assistance. Through sharing their professional skills and experiences, they complete essential assignments linked directly to the organisations development objectives.

The impact of our work ranges from securing venture philanthropy investment, through to increased performance, growth, jobs and ultimately better lives for the target groups served by their work. Our member organisations serve market segments ranging from agri-business, renewable energy, fair trade, Micro Finance & Insurance, venture philanthropy and health and justice. They range from being NGOs and Social Enterprises to Government Departments and Small to Medium Enterprises.

What kinds of work will Finance and Accountant volunteers do on assignment?

Challenges Worldwide volunteers undertake specific pieces of professional work which are integrated into the bigger processes of the social enterprise.

The expert volunteer works with an organisation for up to six months, helping strengthen its operation by carrying out an essential assignment such as developing and implementing a new financial operating model, as well as sharing professional skills and experience.

Further information click here or contact:

Hannah Guy-Meakin (Marketing Officer) on +44 (0) 1312259549 hannah.guy-meakin@challengesworldwide.com www.challengesworldwide.org

British Association for Shooting and Conservation Financial Controller

richardperrott1 — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 09:09:32 +0000

BASC is the largest field sports organisation in the UK, serving the interests of more than 130,000 members within the shooting community. It aims to foster safe practice and high standards of sportsmanship and to promote game and wildlife conservation. BASC are currently rercruiting a Financial Controller based in their Chester offices, for further information go here

A F I D : Accounting for International Development Volunteer Update

richardperrott1 — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:34:40 +0000

SUCCESS STORY

Good Luck to Just Accountancy accountant, Permjeet Brar who is due to travel to Cambodia to support a small NGO called The Cambodian Acid Survivors Charity (CASC) on the 17th November, 2010.
If you are also interested in volunteeering your services, please go to our job advert here Accounting for International Development Website: www.afid.org.uk

Volunteer Accountants Wanted !!

richardperrott1 — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:24:17 +0000

Accounting for International Development is a new social enterprise placing experienced accounting professionals as temporary volunteers with NGOs across Africa and Asia. After 10 long years in the city founder of AfiD Neil Jennings left his position as Regional Director for the international accountancy recruiter Robert Half International and went in search of that mythical ‘work-life balance’. Whilst he had been very successful and certainly very privileged he felt that his life had become just like Bill Murray’s in Groundhog Day – different day, same people and same old problems. Neil found a placement as overseas development director for a small Rwandan non-governmental organisation (NGO), set up by orphans and refugees of the 1994 war and genocide. He had always wanted to make a difference and felt where better to start than in Africa. While working closely with the Rwandans it became apparent that, while the NGO achieved amazing results with little or no resources, the survival of their activities hung desperately in the balance due to a lack of basic financial planning and management. After returning to the UK many skilled people mentioned to Jennings that they would love to volunteer abroad but couldn’t spare the time from their business or family commitments. This is what inspired him to create Accounting for International Development (AfID) – a new social enterprise placing experienced accounting professionals as temporary volunteers with NGOs across Africa and Asia. These assignments typically last from 2 to 12 weeks and form part of a long term coaching and mentoring programme. The programme is designed to build financial management and planning capacity within small grass root projects such as street child centres, health clinics, enterprise initiatives and rural cooperatives. AfiD hopes to make volunteering a realistic prospect for tenured professionals, either as part of a staff development programme or simply as part of their annual leave. For AfID’s partners in Africa and Asia it will provide access to a vast pool of talent. The idea is to champion best practice, accountability and encourage cooperation and a commitment to long-term sustainability. To find out more about how you can become involved please visit their website http://www.afid.org.uk or click here

New Plant A Tree Cartoon Campaign

richardperrott1 — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:48:47 +0000

We plant a tree for every cv so help grow a forest and forward our new video to a friend

Help grow our forest , to view our new cartoon click here,

Why not forward our new cartoon to a friend ?

Book: Easy Eco-auditing – “How to make your home and workplace planet friendly”

richardperrott1 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:29:45 +0000

Book: Easy Eco-auditing – “How to make your home and workplace planet friendly”
Paperback published by Hamlyn’s Gaia Press, February 2008.
Reviewed by John Meakin, ACA Full review click here

Donnachadh McCarthy, is the UK’s top eco consultant”. from celebrities and charities to small buisnesses, Donnachadh has advised hundreds of people and organisations on how to eco audit their lifestyle and become greener. Donnachadh was the eco-auditor on the hit BBC2 series “It Is Not Easy Being Green, ITVS How Green is Your House” and Skys “Green Britain Week”. He is a freelance environmental journalist writing for The Independent and The Guardian. His home became one of the first homes in London to actually become climate positive.

This book provides a step-by-step guide to going green by the UK’s leading eco-auditor. It explains why going green matters and how to get started, including tips on identifying and overcoming bad habits and coping with feeling overwhelmed. The book breaks eco living down into easily managed chunks, including how to change your water usage habits, how to saying goodbye to your rubbish mountain, what you can do to help save and protect your natural environment, green cleaning principles and how to motivate your family, friends and colleagues. With advice on principles to follow both at home and at work, this is the one-stop eco guide everyone must own. Donnachadh’s ambition for this book is that it be the essential handbook for amateur activists to green up their school, workplace or home.

For full review click here

Prince Charles supports Accounting for Sustainability

richardperrott1 — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:16:23 +0000

“There was a time when we could say that there was either a complete lack of knowledge, or at least room for doubt, about the consequences for our planet of our actions. That time has gone. We now know all too clearly what we are actually doing and that we need to do something about it urgently. Better accounting must be part of that process.”

For the full report click here

Sustainability

Mark Speed — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:46:04 +0000

What does ‘sustainability’ mean to you? John Meakin, ACA

What does it mean to your employers if they are using the word as a genuine part of their business culture?

Or are they simply using it as ‘greenwash’?

‘Sustainable’ is a word that is now heard everywhere, but many people use it without stopping to think what it actually means and whether they are using it in the correct context.

In its broadest sense, sustainability is the ability to maintain balance of a certain process or state in any system.
The most widely accepted definition now seems to be that of the UN Commission on Environment and Development which in 1989 defined it as ‘Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’.

To enable the future existence of mankind as a civilised society, what is needed is ‘ecological sustainability’, i.e. the ability to live without depleting the resources of our home, planet earth.

It is clear that we are not now living in such a manner.

As Paul Hawken, co-founder of Smith & Hawken garden tools, says, “We have an economy where we steal the future, sell it in the present and call it GDP”.

Is your company’s business ‘ecologically sustainable’? When searching for your new accountancy job, you could search using www.JustAccountancyJobs.com. For every CV registered with the site, JustAccountancyJobs will plant a tree in a sustainable rainforest through Plant-a-Tree-Today.org. Now that’s Green Accounting!

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