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Charity calls on CIMA expertise to fund mine-clearances in Angola.

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CIMA member Hugh Anderson is busy challenging the common perception that all accountants are male, pale and stale. Anderson (pictured) is taking a major salary cut to spend six months working as finance manager for the Mines Advisory Group (MAG) charity in Angola.

He may be male, but Anderson is rapidly acquiring a good tan while rising to the challenge of helping the charity to improve its finance function at its base in Angola's capital, Luanda. "I have earned a good income from companies in the past and I felt that it was time to give something back," he told FM.

Formerly a finance manager with Cable & Wireless, Anderson is not new to the challenges of working abroad. Previous work assignments have taken him as far afield as Burkina Faso and Colombia. He made the shift into the charity sector with help from Management Accounting for Non-Governmental Organisations (Mango) after reading about its work in FM. The charity runs a register of accountants who are placed with aid agencies in developing countries.

Although it is now politically stable, Angola is still one of the most heavily mined countries in the world but, since arriving in Luanda, Anderson...

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