Volunteer Experts Help Businesses in Developing Economies (1/2)

Abe Mirza is an American, fifty-nine years old and retired. He was trained as an accountant. In fact, he has three degrees in financial record keeping. And he has over twenty years of experience as a business executive.After four years of retirement, he decided that it was time to give something back.

On the Internet, he found an economic development organization, the International Executive Service Corps. This private, nonprofit group links volunteer experts and paid consultants with local business people in developing countries. It was established in the United States in nineteen sixty-four as a Peace Corps for businesspeople.

In September, the International Executive Service Corps paid for Abe Mirza to travel to West Africa. He spent more than two months preparing for an intensive, two-week experience as a volunteer in Ghana. He went to Accra, the capital, to meet with bankers and businesspeople.

From his early meetings he learned that the bankers wanted the businesspeople to keep better financial records. So he taught major accounting methods to eighty businesspeople.

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Abe Mirza是一个59岁退休了的美国人。他是一名会计师。实际上，他在金融记账方面有三个学位。
他作为一个商业务经理有20余年的经验。退休四年后，他决定是时候回报社会了。

在网上，他搜索了一个经济发展组织，即国际行政服务公司。这个私营的非赢利组织将志愿专家和付费咨询师与发展中国家当地的商人联系在一起。它作为一个商业人士的和平队于1964年建于美国。

九月，国际行政服务公司付费让Abe Mirza到西非去旅行。他花了两个多月准备了一次深入的、为期两周作为加纳的志愿者的经历。他去了首都阿克拉去会见银行家和商人。

从他早期的会面中，他了解到银行家们希望商人们能够保持更好的金融记录。所以他教给80位商人主要的核算方法。