30 September - Impact day
Yesterday I got a day off work. To do good in the community. Along with (according to our non audited website!) 4,801 of my Canadian colleagues, I am out to give something to the community we serve.
Impact Day is a single day when all of the people of our firm are encouraged to spend firm-paid time away from the office to volunteer for locally sponsored and organized community improvement projects. Our people do everything from painting and cleaning, to building playgrounds, to serving meals to the less fortunate. Now, they’ll be joined by their colleagues from all functions, coast to coast. 78% of our firm has given up the day.
How much does that cost? well lets say for sake of argument, that half of those people are fee earning. Say 2,400. Thats (very) conservative. And lets say their average daily income for the firm is $1,000 (my charge out rate is above $300 an hour).
So, doing the math, thats $2.4m of income we turned down today to do community work. Not only giving up our time, our leaders are also giving up money... for today, I was actually proud to be an accountant!
The photos below are a few of the images i took from my travels round Canada. Amazing - especially the fact I kept them in focus!
Impact Day is a single day when all of the people of our firm are encouraged to spend firm-paid time away from the office to volunteer for locally sponsored and organized community improvement projects. Our people do everything from painting and cleaning, to building playgrounds, to serving meals to the less fortunate. Now, they’ll be joined by their colleagues from all functions, coast to coast. 78% of our firm has given up the day.
How much does that cost? well lets say for sake of argument, that half of those people are fee earning. Say 2,400. Thats (very) conservative. And lets say their average daily income for the firm is $1,000 (my charge out rate is above $300 an hour).
So, doing the math, thats $2.4m of income we turned down today to do community work. Not only giving up our time, our leaders are also giving up money... for today, I was actually proud to be an accountant!
The photos below are a few of the images i took from my travels round Canada. Amazing - especially the fact I kept them in focus!
posted by CBC at 1:54 pm
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home