BCA-USA MIRROR
PROFILES IN SERVICE: BCA-USA AT THE HELM OF THE BCA-USA TREASURY: AN OPINION By Ni Kenneth Gwanmesia, BCA-USA National Treasurer, 2014 - 2018
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ooking at issues from the sidelines typically always presents the viewer with one to a myriad of possible options. How that individual chooses to proceed is entirely up to them, barring some court order or legal proceeding in place. In my opinion, the choices though numerous in most cases including continuing to play victim and observe perceived human shortcomings perpetuated ad infinitum, are often very simple and the less resistant channel to default to. Well, the fact that I chose to confront the issues head on as an option is history. This one move from an individual often thought to be more garrulous than attentive to details, proved to be quite a journey. This piece should hopefully enlighten future candidates for any role within the association overall and the Treasurer position in particular on what lies ahead. Read on For four years, being at the helm of the BCA-USA financial operations, with little prior accounting background, I would be lying if I didn't ponder what I had just gotten myself into. Nonetheless, I am of the school that believes that with simplistic principles, any task regardless of its complexity could ultimately be decomposed into manageable chunks. I set forth with the goal of accomplishing my pledges to the members with this simple but very practical approach. In this time, we have presided over the immense growth in multiple areas of our association that simply make the task of being BCAUSA Treasurer today, as close to a full time position as it gets. Membership has doubled in this period and will continue to grow. We have slowly gotten
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our Nkap Ntod operations to a steady state where enrollment has also seen a steady growth and even more importantly, reenrollment has equally stayed constant. We expect these trends to continue and speaking from an individual point of view here, I see us with over 1000 members in the not so distant future. That we have successfully handled our financial commitments to four of our departed members already with not a single glitch, should be testimony of how solid our financial apparatus is in this regard. Our event management on the financial side has gotten more and more complex dealing with hotels that host us for our various annual events as well as third party vendors in several realms. These external vendors both in Cameroon at the MPC site and here in the US all brought in their share of hurdles to navigate through. Worth mentioning also is the fact that working with the different chapter representatives have been quite a
