Promoting Wellbeing for Chartered Accountants
At Chartered Accountants Worldwide, we acknowledge the profound impact of mental health on work performance, relationships, and the overall quality of life. We delve into the importance of fostering employee wellbeing in our fast-paced industry. Depression and anxiety, prevalent mental health conditions, exert a significant economic toll, amounting to US$ 1 trillion each year on the global economy.
The Gallup Global Employee Survey paints a concerning picture, revealing that less than a quarter of the world’s employees feel they are thriving at work, underscoring the urgency to address this growing challenge. The McKinsey Health Institute’s extensive survey across 15 countries and 15,000 employees unearths a stark reality – 59% of the workforce grapples with mental health challenges, highlighting the imperative for employers to intervene and support their teams.
This holds true for the Chartered Accountancy profession as well, where stress and burnout are issues, affecting over half of Chartered Accountants. Managers within this industry play a pivotal role in shaping a conducive work environment that fosters mental, emotional, and physical health. Recognising the direct link between comprehensive support and heightened engagement and productivity, it becomes both an ethical and strategic responsibility to manage wellbeing effectively.
The Chartered Accountants Worldwide global wellbeing taskforce acknowledges this imperative and is proud to introduce our revamped wellbeing toolkit for managers. This toolkit stands as a comprehensive guide, arming managers with crucial insights, strategies, and best practices to cultivate a thriving and dynamic team. Above all, it emphasises the critical need to build resilience and purpose within the workplace, contributing to a more productive, rewarding, and compassionate work environment. Together, let’s pave the way towards a brighter future for the Chartered Accountancy profession by prioritising mental health and fostering a culture of holistic wellbeing.
Wellbeing Poll
Mental Health resources for Chartered Accountants
Here is a list of dedicated wellbeing hubs setup from some of the Chartered Accountants Worldwide Member Institutes:
Download the Toolkit
Wellbeing Toolkit
This toolkit stands as a comprehensive guide, arming managers with crucial insights, strategies, and best practices to cultivate a thriving and dynamic team. Above all, it emphasises the critical need to build resilience and purpose within the workplace, contributing to a more productive, rewarding, and compassionate work environment. Together, let’s pave the way towards a brighter future for the Chartered Accountancy profession by prioritising mental health and fostering a culture of holistic wellbeing.
Featured Event
Difference Makers Discuss… Mental Health Matters
Join our Difference Makers as we uncover the issues around mental health and wellbeing affecting Chartered Accountants and the business & finance sector more broadly. In this episode our Difference Makers discuss Mental Health Matters. Guests include Ronan Dunne, Jonny Jacobs, and Dee France.
Insights on Wellbeing
Insights on Wellbeing
Find out about Naomi Walsh’s remarkable journey from a farm in regional Tasmania to becoming the Vice President of Chartered Accountants in Australia and New Zealand, scaling new heights, breaking barriers in accountancy, and championing sustainability.
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Featured Podcast
Jonny Jacobs – Ending the stigma around mental health
In this episode Indy meets Jonny Jacobs CA, is the Finance Director EMEA at Starbucks, he is also a passionate advocate for positive mental health.
Jonny speaks openly about his own struggles with mental health in his teens and talks about the importance of acknowledging challenges people may be experiencing in their lives.
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Online Events & Webinars
Online Events & Webinars
One clear way that Chartered Accountant Member Institutes are rising to this challenge is in the creation and hosting of online events and activities.
We are working with the Institutes to present the events that have a global perspective and are available to Chartered Accountants everywhere.
Webinars on demand
Embark on a journey with Naomi Walsh, the trailblazing Vice President of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, as she unveils her extraordinary ascent in the accounting world.
Breaking Barriers and Building Legacies: Unveiling the Transformative Power of Collaboration, Mentorship, and Inclusive Leadership in Business with Kovini Moodley
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Be Social
Our next episode of DMD Live will be broadcast on May 2nd on our LinkedIn channel at 12 noon BST. This time, Sinead Donovan will be talking to Asma Shahbaz, an inspiring Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants Pakistan on everything from audit to art.
Are you an #SME? Need a hand with #branding? Look no further - there's a new guide in town: https://ow.ly/9XEj50ReWh1
The rapid developments in AI have engendered high expectations of the benefits it can deliver for business and for society at large. Yet there are concerns about AI replacing human input and thus displacing jobs. Read more here: https://ow.ly/r7aE50ReW3x
Chartered Accountants - Take part in our global resilience survey & contribute to enhancing the profession's resilience worldwide. Your feedback will help us identify strengths & support systems. Complete the survey in just 5-7 minutes: https://resilience.guide/start/2024GRSCAW & ...enter 2024GRSCAW.
PODCAST: The path to professional success is rarely a straight line. For Mathabo, a journey that began with the aspiration to heal in the field of medicine took an unexpected detour into the world of accountancy and finance. https://ow.ly/7osG50ReWcI #DifferenceMaker
Our next episode of DMD Live will be broadcast on May 2nd on our LinkedIn channel at 12 noon BST. This time, Sinead Donovan will be talking to Asma Shahbaz, an inspiring Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants Pakistan on everything from audit to art.
Advances in intelligent automation (IA) have made it more cost efficient for organisations to adopt. It has taken over many once-mundane tasks within the finance function and allowed employees to take on higher-value tasks. Read more: https://ow.ly/iaJC50ReVQ1
CAW Network USA invites you to attend this exciting online event, Beyond Accounting – Sustainability in Transactions. When? TOMORROW: 23 APRIL – 7pm – 8.30pm EASTERN / 24 APRIL – 11am NEW ZEALAND / 9am SYDNEY. Register now: https://ow.ly/iRGb50ReVq1
Our next episode of DMD Live will be broadcast on May 2nd on our LinkedIn channel at 12 noon BST. This time, Sinead Donovan will be talking to Asma Shahbaz, an inspiring Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants Pakistan on everything from audit to art.
Our next episode of DMD Live will be broadcast on May 2nd on our LinkedIn channel at 12 noon BST. This time, Sinead Donovan will be talking to Asma Shahbaz, an inspiring Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants Pakistan on everything from audit to art.
Our next episode of DMD Live will be broadcast on May 2nd on our LinkedIn channel at 12 noon BST. This time, Sinead Donovan will be talking to Asma Shahbaz, an inspiring Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants Pakistan on everything from audit to art.
