Mental Fitness Highlights
Catch some of the top moments with our prestigious speakers at the recent Beyond Accounting: Mental Fitness conference.
June 2021
Chain reaction
Pressure is growing for firms to demonstrate that they are operating responsibly. Ryan Herman hears how formalising the supply chain audit and harmonising ESG reporting could be the missing pieces.
Electric dreams
The electric vehicle revolution is finally charging ahead. EDF’s Ren Baletti CA tells Ryan Herman why the utility giant will be powering the UK’s transformation towards a zero-emissions economy.
All systems go
From rainforest economies in Brazil to tackling plastic pollution in Indonesia, systems change company Systemiq confronts some of the planet’s most urgent challenges. CFO Andrew Morrow CA explains why accountants play a crucial role.
CAs will bring about lasting change by embracing sustainability
Anne Adrain, Head of Sustainability and Assurance, says now is the time for CAs to spread their ESG skills throughout the business sector.
Andrew Demery CA: Cycle of life
When Andrew Demery CA left the UK for Australia, he set a new path for his life and career. Rachel Ingram speaks to the BikeExchange CFO about the transition from practice to industry and expat life.
Volunteering with charities across the world from your own home
Volunteers would spend anywhere from two weeks to six months on the ground working with local finance teams.
But in the midst of a global pandemic, what happens when overseas travel is no longer an option?
The race is on to put climate change centre stage
So, who will be the winners of this race?
All of us, we hope, if the various world leaders that descend on Glasgow in November step up the pace in the race for the preservation, and survival, of the human race.
Gordon Cowie MBE: From Balance Sheets to Bed Pans
In 1982 my professional (ICAS) practice career took me to The Big Apple a few months before the incorporation of ACAUS. I went to work with Roger Musson, the first ACAUS President following on from founder Angus McDowell. I lived and worked in the USA until 1985 having taken over from Roger as the Deloitte Haskins & Sells UK/US Liaison Partner in the USA.
I guess my most memorable claim to ACAUS fame, as Ian Wise reports in his book ‘ACAUS The First 40 Years’, was finding haggis for 150 diners at the very first formal ACAUS dinner in 1983 at Windows on the World atop the late Twin Towers… or, as Roger Musson used to refer to it from our offices on Floor 100, “the office canteen”!