Professor, Department of Accounting & Information

University of Dhaka

Mr. Amirus Salat is a Professor of the Department of Accounting & Information in the Faculty of Business Studies, University of Dhaka. He joined in 2003 after completing his graduation. He got his undergraduate & graduate degrees in accounting in 2000 and 2002 respectively from the same university. He obtained a Research Masters in 2019 from the Ryerson University in Canada.

 

Since entering academia, his research and teaching have focused on International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) particularly on Carbon reporting. He has published his research in such leading journals as Education+Training, Managerial Auditing, and so on. One of his papers entitled “Big 4 auditor affiliation and accruals quality in Bangladesh” published in the Managerial Auditing Journal has been selected as the Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence. Recently he completed a project titled “Climate Change Disclosures: An Empirical Study on the Oil and Gas Companies in Canada”. His project was highly appreciated by the Examination Committee of Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.  Amirus also worked as a manager of a Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (HEQEP) titled ‘Accounting for Capital Market Development (ACMD)’ which was an initiative for pursuing capital market research and training for graduate students, corporate executives, financial journalists, and researchers in capital market studies in Bangladesh. The Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) of the World Bank funded the project. Its implementation is governed by the HEQEP of Bangladesh's University Grants Commission (UGC).

 

Mr. Amirus serves the country by working in various roles in esteemed organizations. Now he is serving as a member of the Governing body of Dhaka City College, Dhaka. He was the Organizing Secretary of the Bangladesh Accounting Association (BAA). He is currently serving as a General Secretary of the Accounting Alumni of Dhaka University. He worked in various administrative roles at the University of Dhaka. He was a director of external affairs for the Department of Accounting & Information Systems of the University of Dhaka. He also worked as a student counselor in the same Department. He organized and coordinated large-scale programs like Training programs, seminars and workshops, and so on.

He became director of the Company on 12 November 2024.