Let's Do it Galway & The Volvo Ocean Race
We are delighted to announce that Let’s Do It Global has selected accountsIQ to be their accounting platform. Let's Do It Global is the organisation that was set up following the successful bid for Galway to host a stopover in the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09. It is a condition of the stopover that Let's Do It Global enters a team in the race.
The targets for the Galway Volvo Ocean Race stopover are that it will generate €43m for the local economy and will deliver over 140,000 visitors to Galway from 23 May to 06 June 2009.
Let's Do It Global is a not for profit organization, with senior members contributing on a voluntary basis. It is run in a professional, business-like way using a team of dedicated professionals with responsibility for key specific areas.
There are two subsidiary companies of Let's Do It Global:
- Let's Do It Galway (responsible for the Galway Stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race),
- Let's Do It Green (responsible for the Green Dragon Racing Team, Ireland's entry in the Volvo Ocean Race 2008-09).
Speaking of his decision to select accountsIQ, Dick Duggan (Finance Director) commented:
“We chose accountsIQ for two main reasons. Firstly as a web based accounting product it allows the various users of our accounting information to access the system from the different parts of the world in which they are all located on a low cost monthly basis. In addition, it has the necessary reporting and multi currency functionality to allow us to keep our sponsors and shareholders fully aware of how the project is progressing at all times”.
William Parker, Sales Director of Visor Ltd, replied “We’re delighted as another Irish company to be connected with Let’s Do It Global’s bid to win the Volvo Ocean Race and to create a long standing legacy from the stop over in Galway”.
The Volvo Ocean Race starts from Alicante, Spain on 11th October and to follow the progress of the Green Dragon team around the world please visit http://www.letsdoitgalway.com/ and register for real time updates of the yacht’s position or click here.
