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Accountantsinspiring ACCOUNTANTS the INSPIRINGAccountants ACCOUNTANTS who volunteer INSPIRING ACCOUNTANTS Accountancy skills are sought all over the world – often by people and organisations who know they need help but cannot afford a professional or even find one locally. That’s where many accountants are stepping up as volunteers, joining organisations in their home towns or even travelling abroad on assignments to help organisations in developing countries. While their finance and analytical skills are highly valued, the interviewees in this ebook say volunteering has challenged them to think in new ways, draw on strengths they didn’t know they had and helped them in their professional lives. Some have become volunteers because of a personal connection to a charity, while others have signed up to Accountants for International Development (AfID), which has matched their skills to a need. Read on for their inspiring stories. 1 ROBYN CAMERON CPA 3 DAVID HARRIS CPA 5 LOUISE ROBERTS CPA 7 ALEX OOI FCPA 9 PRADEEP RAJ RAGHU RAJA PILLAY CPA 10 EMMA YOUNG ASA CPA 12 PENELOPE JAMES INSPIRING ACCOUNTANTS 14 LEO TUTT FCPA 16 JOEY KEE CPA 18 MELVA MACAULAY ASA INSPIRING ACCOUNTANTS Robyn Cameron (centre) at the Gold Coast Mother’s Day Classic fun run. “I’m not a scientist, but what I could do was fundraise. It’s my turn to give back.” ROBYN CAMERON CPA 1 | Accountants who volunteer intheblack.com ROBYN CAMERON CPA ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S TOP FUNDRAISERS FOR THE NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION The first time Robyn Cameron CPA was diagnosed her energy into raising funds for the National Breast with breast cancer, she was aged just 38, studying Cancer Foundation (NBCF), an organisation focused an undergraduate degree in accounting and raising on supporting research. two young children. Her first event was a movie night at Griffith University The diagnosis was a huge shock for Cameron, who in 2005 that raised A$2800. She went on to host ran half-marathons and had no family history of the morning teas at the university, founded the Pink disease. After a lumpectomy, she underwent eight Ribbon Cup Raceday at the Gold Coast Turf Club weeks of radiation therapy. in 2008, and set up the Gold Coast Mother’s Day Classic fun run in 2009. “I’d get the kids off to school, work on an assignment or go to class, then jump in the car in the afternoon The Pink Ribbon Cup Raceday became so popular, and do a trip to Brisbane [70km away], have my with tickets selling out each year, that in 2017 it treatment and drive back home,” says Cameron, became the NBCF’s largest community fundraiser who is now a senior lecturer at Griffith University’s in Australia. Business School. “There’s a lot of time that goes into it,” Cameron says. “The next day would be the same again.” “I’ll be sitting at my computer on the weekend thinking, Her second diagnosis came in 2004. She was 46, ‘I wouldn’t mind being at the beach’, then I’ll get an working full-time and halfway through her PhD. email [from a business owner] saying, ‘Robyn, can I donate something?’” “It was a lot scarier,” she says. The chemotherapy was tough, and she had to take time off from work and She believes the CPA designation at the end of her study. Yet once again Cameron recovered, returned signature has helped her fundraising, as donors are to work and, in 2008, submitted her PhD. confident she will be honest and ethical with any money raised. After her ordeal, Cameron wanted to help other women facing breast cancer. She decided to put Click here to read the entire article. 2 | Accountants who volunteer intheblack.com INSPIRING ACCOUNTANTS “I would encourage anyone who has the desire to contribute to the community through an NFP without reward, and to Use your particular skill set to add value where it really counts.” DAVID HARRIS CPA 3 | Accountants who volunteer intheblack.com FOOD CHARITY FARESHARE PUTS THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE OF DAVID HARRIS CPA TO GOOD USE Being in a leadership role with a large not-for-profit A handful of volunteers has grown to over 1000, with (NFP) organisation is extremely challenging, but it is a waiting list of another 1200. also immensely satisfying, according to David Harris The organisation has acquired additional premises, CPA, president of the board of FareShare, which which will enable it to expand distribution into regional collects food donations and transforms them into Victoria and South Australia. cooked meals for people in need. In 2018, FareShare purchased a building in Brisbane At the same time, he is a founder and co-director and converted it into a charity kitchen. It aims to of resource recovery and reverse logistics firm TIC cook up to four million meals a year for distribution Group (The Ideas Company). It was TIC Group that throughout Queensland and New South Wales. led him to FareShare. Harris says his CPA Australia certification and “In 2005, TIC Group was involved in managing expertise have proved invaluable throughout his customer returns for a number of Australia’s leading career in business and the NFP sector. retailers,” Harris says. “Based on my NFP work, I believe that while “I was approached by Coles Supermarkets to find organisations such as FareShare are clearly charities, a solution for the problem of food products being they need to be run on business lines,” he says. “Profit discarded due to damaged packaging and other might not be the ultimate goal, but we need to use issues. I developed a model that facilitated the rescue resources effectively.” of these products and their subsequent donation to charities. Based on this, a board member of FareShare – then known as One Umbrella – asked ABOUT FARESHARE me to join their board. As soon as I understood the FareShare rescues surplus food and cooks and important work the organisation was doing I was distributes free, nutritious meals for people in need happy to jump in.” via soup vans, homeless shelters, women’s refuges At that time, the organisation was producing about and community food banks. 45,000 meals a year. Over the past three years this number has jumped to over 1.25 million meals. In addition, FareShare also rescues almost one million kilograms of food a year destined for landfill, which it distributes, uncooked, to agencies in need. Click here to read the entire article. 4 | Accountants who volunteer intheblack.com INSPIRING ACCOUNTANTS “I’m working with a completely different group of people … It’s really rewarding.” LOUISE ROBERTS CPA 5 | Accountants who volunteer intheblack.com LOUISE ROBERTS CPA USES HER EXPERT FINANCE SKILLS TO HELP PEOPLE REALISE THEIR PARALYMPIC SPORTING DREAMS When Kerryn Harvey fell off her bike in the Adelaide the licences that we hold in various states,” says Hills in 2013, she got up, dusted herself off, got a Roberts, a member of the Victorian Women’s CPA few stitches in her elbow and thought that was that. Network. Then her injury deteriorated. Doctors diagnosed Roberts’ involvement with START began in 2014, necrotising fasciitis, an infection caused by rare when a former colleague put her in touch with one flesh-eating bacteria, and amputated her right arm of the founding directors. and shoulder in an effort to save her life. “They were looking for someone with finance skills, “The world nearly lost her,” says Louise Roberts CPA, so I contacted her and we had a conversation. finance director on the board of START foundation, The work they were doing sounded really exciting the charity Harvey founded after her accident. and worthwhile.” The organisation provides grants to amputees Roberts has found working with START an enriching for prosthetic limbs, limb devices and modified experience. “I’m working with a completely different equipment, so they can be active in sport. START group of people … all focused on positively foundation recognises the importance of physical impacting people’s lives. It’s really rewarding.” activity to the health and wellbeing of amputees. “We work to empower amputees in life, through sport,” Roberts explains. ABOUT START FOUNDATION Providing grants to help amputees keep playing As START foundation’s finance director, Roberts sport, START foundation operates with the support helps oversee accounts, reports to the board on of sponsors, donors and volunteers. the charity’s financial position and works with the board on annual budgets and forecasts. Grant recipients can use funds to purchase prosthetic limbs, limb modifications or other “I [also] do all of the compliance and reporting equipment they need to participate in sport. requirements for ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission), ACNC (Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission) and all Click here to read the entire article. 6 | Accountants who volunteer intheblack.com INSPIRING ACCOUNTANTS “I feel that after a while you just work, and you earn your living. to the society.” ALEX OOI FCPA 7 | Accountants who volunteer intheblack.com ALEX OOI FCPA IS HELPING TO DEVELOP THE NEXT GENERATION OF LIONS CLUBS COMMUNITY LEADERS Alex Ooi FCPA realised he didn’t want to just work, Ooi has been instrumental in setting up a college- he wanted to do more to help others. based Leo club in Malaysia, the Omega Leo Club of Brickfields Asia College, which is a Lions offshoot “I feel that after a while you just work, and you earn for members aged 18 to 30 years. your living. I think we need to give something back to the society,” says the director of the Audit Oversight “Leos are our future generations of leaders,” says Ooi, Board for the Securities Commission Malaysia.
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