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BCAS – Volunteering – Making a Difference

By Raman Jokhakar, Chartered Accountant
Reading Time 15 mins
CORE OF VOLUNTEERING IS TAKING VOLUNTEERING TO THE CORE RAMAN JOKHAKAR
Chartered Accountant
(Editor from August 2017 to July 2022)
 
I was requested by the Hon. Editor of BCAJ, Dr CA Mayur B. Nayak, to write a musing on volunteering. What a fabulous subject! It is inspired by the BCAS theme of this quarter, Change — Leaders — Charity. In our profession, we are used to quarterly themes that are about guidance on profits or Sarkari announcements on tax collection data and so on. To have the theme of Change — Leaders — Charity is unique. I have taken some of the outline points given by the Editor, as subheadings, and shared my thoughts on them.
Association with BCAS: Many members after becoming Chartered Accountants are told by their mentors / parents / principal to become a BCAS member. So was I when my father asked me to enrol as a life member immediately after the results. However, my association was much before that. My father was the president of the BCAS in 1971–72. I was born in 1972. Growing up, I had heard many stories from the times he used to be a member in the early days of the BCAS. The Bulletins and other material used to get posted from our office for some time. The Union Budget copies, that were brought from Delhi by evening flight by seniors like the late Shri P. N. S
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