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December 2023

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