Our Key Professionals

Mezanoor Rahman, FCA

Director

Mr. Mezanoor Rahman is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB). He completed his CA Articleship from ACNABIN, Chartered Accountants in 2002. He is a member of Taxation & Corporate Laws Committee (TCLC) of ICAB. He completed his B. Com (Hon’s) and M. Com in Accounting and he is a life member of Accounting Alumni Association of Jagannath University. He is also a Member of the Dhaka Taxes Bar Association and a VAT consultant. He has obtained his VAT consultancy certificate under VAT & SD Act, 2012 from the National Board of Revenue (NBR). He was Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Janata Insurance Company Limited.

Mr. Mezanoor has been leading the Taxation and Corporate Affairs department of ACNABIN as Director. He has gathered experience in the public and private sectors industry in taxation, accounting, consultancy and other advisory & support services. He has worked for multinational and local companies including manufacturing, banks, financial institutions, power sectors, government projects, foreign & local joint ventures, chain hotels, garments & textiles, IT sectors, NGOs, services and so many other sectors.

During the service period of more than 20 (twenty) years, he has accrued wide experience in planning, conducting and supervising services related to income tax and VAT inter alia including transfer pricing, internal audit, due diligence, forming opinion on investment benefits in Bangladesh for interested investors, accounting, vetting of financial statements within the purview of taxation and other applicable laws, approval of provident, gratuity & superannuation funds form the NBR, formation of companies and RJSC&F related services, merging of Private Limited Companies (High Court & RJSC&F part), setting up foreign liaison and branch offices and other BIDA related services in Bangladesh.

Following are the names of a few clients of different sectors to whom he has provided consultancy, advisory and support services:

Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Limited, Unilever Bangladesh Limited, MINISO Bangladesh Limited, Marico Bangladesh Limited, Syngenta Bangladesh Limited, Bayer CropScience Limited, British Council Bangladesh, Delegation of the European Union to Bangladesh, Nordic Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Bangladesh, Grameenphone Limited, Banglalink Digital Communications Limited, Robi Axiata Limited, Airtel Bangladesh Limited, Bangladesh Cricket Board, Embassy of Sweden, Royal Danish Embassy, Royal Norwegian Embassy, Bangladesh-China Power Company (Pvt.) Limited, HDFC Sinpower Limited, M&J Group of Companies, Evince Group of Companies, Divine Group of Companies, Sharif Group of Companies, Grameen Telecom Trust, Standard Chartered Bank, The City Bank Limited, Sena Hotel Developments Limited (Radisson), Korean Expressway Corporation, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Elanco Bangladesh Limited, IPDC Finance Limited, Keller Ground Engineering Bangladesh Limited, United Commercial Bank Limited, BRAC Bank Limited, BRAC EPL Investments Limited, BRAC EPL Stock Brokerage Limited, data edge limited, Brain Craft Limited, Excel Tele-Com (Pvt) Limited, Geoharbour Bangladesh Engineering and Construction Limited, Sinotrans Bangladesh Limited, SRG Apparel PLC, etc.

He is involved with various social activities, a life member of Lions Clubs International Foundation and Region Chairperson (Club) of Lions Clubs international, District 315 A1, Bangladesh.

mezanoor@acnabin-bd.com

Mahmudur Rahman, FCA

Director

Mahmud is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB), an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He qualified in 2012 and working as director of ACNABIN Chartered Accountants. Mahmud completed his BBA and MBA from the University of Dhaka.

Mahmud is one of the members of the Dhaka Regional Committee of ICAB. He is also the Treasure of the Accounting Alumni, University of Dhaka. He has been serving the Alumni since 2014. Mahmud is a Faculty Member of ICAB.

As a chartered accountant, Mahmud has been active in audit and advisory services across a sizeable number of local and multinational clients. His professional activities include:

Assurance Service: Statutory audit, Independent review of financial statements, Review engagement and Performing agreed-upon procedures (Special audit, Management audit, Performance audit, Interim audit etc.).

Corporate Finance Advisory Services: Due Diligence, Valuation (Business/ Share Valuation, Regulatory Valuation, Investment Valuation, Fixed Assets Valuation etc.).

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO): Accounting services, Preparation of management accounts and management information systems, Preparation & Maintenance of books of accounts etc.

Risk and Advisory Services: Business Advisory, Forensic Services, Management Assurance (Internal Audit, Concurrent Audit/Second Opinion, Management Audit etc.).

Past experience: Mahmud’s current and previous clients include Bangladesh Bank, Agrani Bank Limited, Prime Bank Limited, ONE Bank Limited, Pubali Bank Limited, Green Delta Insurance Company Limited, GE Healthcare Bangladesh, Summit Power, Unilever, Walton, AK Khan and Company, Dhaka Stock Exchange Limited, Infrastructure Development Company Limited, Bangladesh Infrastructure Finance Fund Limited, Power Grid Company of Bangladesh, Grameenphone Ltd., Accenture Communications Infrastructure Solutions Limited, Wipro IT Services Bangladesh Limited, Axiata Digital Bangladesh Limited, Hungama Bangladesh, Arla Foods Bangladesh Limited, OSJI Joint Venture (a joint venture of Obayashi Corp., Shimizu Corp., JFE Engineering Corp. and IHI Infrastructure Systems Co., Ltd.), Tokyo Construction Co., Ltd., OTJ Joint Venture (a joint venture of Obayashi Corp., TOA Corporation and JFE Engineering Corporation), IHI SMCC Joint Venture (a joint venture of IHI Infrastructure Systems Co., Ltd. and SMCC Corporation), TOA Corporation, etc.

mahmud@acnabin-bd.com

Ranesh Acharjee, FCA

Director

Ranesh Acharjee is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) bearing Enrollment Number 0549 and rejoined as a Director in the firm in March 2016. He did his Bachelor Degree from the University of Chattogram in 1981 and qualified as Chartered Accountant in January,1988. He was born in 01 October 1960.

Mr. Ranesh also worked with ACNABIN as a Qualified Assistant from March 1988 to November 1993 after becoming Chartered Accountant. His current responsibilities included external audit, internal audit, other assurance services, designing internal control and working with government projects/organizations.

Prior to rejoining in ACNABIN in 2016, he worked as a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of a large Micro-Finance Institution (MFI) named ASA for 22 years. The main responsibilities included in that post were to design accounting system, prepare budget, report to donor agencies and manage Tax and VAT. He was also responsible for operation of Micro-Finance where he designed Micro-Finance operation policy, recovery system, insurance system, bad debt management and operational reporting.

Mr. Ranesh obtained a three-month long training named Overseas General Management Course (OGMC) conducted by DANIDA in Denmark. He also conducted a Micro-Finance Training course in Lagos, Nigeria arranged by UNDP-Nigeria. He developed ASA- Micro-Finance operational manual and ASA-Internal Audit manual.

ranesh@acnabin-bd.com

Abdullah Al Mamun, FCA

Director

Mamun is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) and joined as a Director in the firm in July 2022. He qualified in 2008 and passed all levels of CA examination at First sitting. For his outstanding result at CA Exam, he received his CA Certificate from the Honorable President of Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. In October 2014 he became a Fellow Chartered Accountant of ICAB. He did his Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Accounting & Information Systems in 2005 and Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Accounting & Information Systems in 2006 from University of Dhaka.

He worked at Eastern Bank Limited (EBL), one of the most reputed private commercial banks in Bangladesh, for almost 11 (eleven) years from October 2011 to July 2022. At EBL he worked on Financial Integrity, Financial and Regulatory Reporting, Annual Report and written some policies and manuals of EBL, e.g. Procurement and Disposal Policy, Accounting Manual, GL Control & Reconciliation Policy, Outsourcing Policy and SOP of Regulatory Reports. He settled long pending BCCI legacies with Bangladesh Bank to merge asset and liability GLs of BCCI with those of EBL. He worked as a core team member for migration of Core Banking System (CBS) of EBL.

As a Faculty of ICAB, he has been taking classes at Certificate Level, Application Level and Advanced Level since the inception of new syllabus (2010) after signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). He was as a Visiting Faculty of MBA Program of Eastern University.

Mamun has a good blending of working experience as a public accountant as well as a top level management executive in the corporate sector. As a public accountant, Mamun has been active in audit and advisory services across a sizeable number of local and multinational clients. His professional activities include:

Assurance Service: Statutory audit, Independent review of financial statements, Review engagement and Performing agreed-upon procedures (Special audit, Management audit, Performance audit, Interim audit etc.).

Corporate Finance Advisory Services: Due Diligence, Valuation (Business/ Share Valuation, Regulatory Valuation, Investment Valuation, Fixed Assets Valuation etc.).

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO): Accounts payable processing, Payroll and payroll tax processing, Accounting services, Human resource support, Preparation of management accounts and management information systems, Preparation & Maintenance of books of accounts, Support in day-to-day Transaction Processing, Advice on secretarial matters relating to the Companies Act etc.

Risk and Advisory Services: Business Advisory, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Management Assurance (Internal Audit, Management Audit etc.).

Tax and Regulatory Services: Direct Tax, Indirect Tax, Regulatory Services, Special Advisory.

Mamun’s other interests:

He is a member of Board of Studies (BoS) and Technical and Research Committee (TRC) of ICAB.

He has a great interest in writing. He is writing on CA profession to reach this noble and prestigious profession to the mass people. So far he has written four books titled “CA Jiboner Golpo”, “Shadhinatar Subornojoyonti”, “CA Keno Porbo” and “Moner Diary”.

mamun.abdullah@acnabin-bd.com

Md. Mahedi Hasan, FCA

Director

Mahedi is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), UK. He qualified as Chartered Accountant in 2014, having completed his CA articleship with this firm between 2010 and 2013 from ACNABIN, Chartered Accountants. Mahedi completed his graduation in Accounting and Information Systems (AIS) from University of Dhaka.

Professional Activities:

Mahedi is currently working as a Director in Assurance and Advisory Department of ACNABIN. He has extensive working experience in simple to complex ERP environment. His assurance works includes Energy/power companies, Pharmaceuticals, FMCGs, Telecoms, Banks, Financial Institutions, Microfinance, and large-scale NGOs (like, brac), International Development Organizations, Trading etc.

His advisory work includes Business Valuation, BPO, Organizational Financial System Review, Internal Auditing, process design, Fixed Asset Revaluation, financial management training, regulatory compliances & tax advice, Financial Health Check etc. He has audit/advisory work experience in aboard (i.e., Uganda, Egypt, India).

Experience in Abroad:

He was one of the key team members in audit of Secretariat, Dhaka and Africa Regional Office, Kampala, Uganda of Partners in Population and Development, An Inter-Government Organization of 28 Countries. He was the key member in reviewing a project in Egypt implemented by International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) also known as WorldFish, Penang, Malaysia funded by GIZ.

Client Experience:

His current and previous clients include GlaxoSmithKline Bangladesh Limited, Novartis Bangladesh Limited, Incepta Pharmaceuticals Bangladesh Limited, BRAC, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC, Robi Axiata Limited, Banglalink Digital Communications Limited, Integrated Food and Beverage Limited (Pepsico Bangladesh), L'Oréal Bangladesh Limited, Chevron, Heidelberg Cement Bangladesh Limited, Heidelberg Cement Asia Pte Limited, Cemex Cement Bangladesh Limited, RAK Ceramics Bangladesh Limited, Xiaomi Technologies Bangladesh Limited, CEAT AKKhan Limited, Paxar Bangladesh Limited, Edocto Bangladesh Co. Limited, Aggreko Bangladesh Power Solutions Limited, Aggreko Bangladesh Energy Solutions Limited, Labib Dyeing Mills Limited, Nice Cotton Limited, Excel Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd., Save the Children International, Marie Stopes Bangladesh, Concern Worldwide, UNICEF, World Bank, UNDP, FES, IEDCR, Bank Asia Limited, Mercantile Bank Limited, Ananta Huaxiang Limited, Kumudini Welfare Trust of Bengal (BD) Ltd., B-R Powergen Limited, Shahjibazar Power Co. Ltd., Midland East Power Limited, Meghna Energy Limited, RAK Power Limited, Petromax Refinery Limited, Yokogawa India Limited, Hifab International AB, Bangladesh Krishi Bank, Bank Asia Securities Limited, Indicate Securities Consultant Limited, BRAC University, Cyrus India, Raj Lanka Power Company Limited, Lakdhanavi Bangla Power Ltd., Carnival Assure Limited, Indesore Sweater Limited, Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), SAK Consumer Products Ltd., Willis Towers Watson India Pvt Ltd., Sumitomo Corporation, Bangladesh SEZ Limited, Laudes Foundation, DIAMED, China Southern Airlines, Sml Packaging Solutions Bangladesh Limited, Euphoria Apparels Ltd. etc.

mahedi@acnabin-bd.com

Mohammad Mutasim Hossain, FCA

Director

Mohammad Mutasim Hossain is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh. He qualified as Chartered Accountant in December, 2015, having completed his CA articleship with this firm between 2010 and 2013 from ACNABIN, Chartered Accountants. He did his MBA and BBA in Accounting and Information System from University of Dhaka.

Mr. Mutasim is a Director working in Taxation and Corporate Affairs division of ACNABIN. His client service areas include financial reporting, direct and indirect tax assessment, advisory, planning, management and appeal proceeding, transfer pricing, international taxation, investment planning, business advisory and financial and management consultancy. He has a wide experience in joint venture formation, corporate taxation and business advisory services to contractors in JICA financed ODA projects. He has also intensive knowledge and experience for corporate tax exemption and assessment for software developers and IT companies in Bangladesh.

Mr. Mutasim’s current and previous clients include Grameenphone Ltd., Robi Axiata Limited, Accenture Communications Infrastructure Solutions Limited, Wipro IT Services Bangladesh Limited, Axiata Digital Bangladesh Limited, Hungama Bangladesh, Arla Foods Bangladesh Limited, Paxar Bangladesh Limited, OSJI Joint Venture (a joint venture of Obayashi Corp., Shimizu Corp., JFE Engineering Corp. and IHI Infrastructure Systems Co., Ltd.), Tokyu Construction Co., Ltd., OTJ Joint Venture (a joint venture of Obayashi Corp., TOA Corporation and JFE Engineering Corporation), IHI SMCC Joint Venture (a joint venture of IHI Infrastructure Systems Co., Ltd. and SMCC Corporation), TOA Corporation, Penta Ocean Construction Co., Ltd., POSCO Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd., Sterling and Willson, TMS International, MQ Retail AB, Yves Dorsey etc.

Mr. Mutasim successfully worked as an expert in VAT matters as nominated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) on the basis of invitation from the Large Taxpayer Unit (VAT) to resolve its disputes with taxpayers. He worked as a trainer to national VAT audit and intelligence directorate of NBR and training sessions organized by ICAB and different training organizations. He worked for facilitating investment from Singapore in Bangladesh in association with Singapore Business Federation; the apex chamber of commerce in Singapore. Mr. Mutasim is a President’s Scout and involved in various social works in personal life.

mutasim_hossain@acnabin-bd.com

A.N.M. Shakawath Hossain, CISA, CCISO

Director

15+ years of working experience in Information Technology

Mr. Shakawath was the Head of IT in leading financial company in Bangladesh and thus has experience of the private sector IT and audit in Bangladesh.

Mr. Shakawath achieved the CISA, ISO 27001, CCISO, CLPTP, ECSA, CEH, SSBB certification.

Mr. Shakawath is an Information System Security, Audit & Assurance professional, but also does consultancy and advisory work. Shakawath’s Client Services area includes Information Security (IS) Audit, IS Security Implementation, IS risks
assessment, Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Test (VAPT), Business System Design and Development, Business Process Management, ERP Post Implementation Review, ISO 27001 & PCI DSS compliance review.

In past Mr. Shakawath was engaged with Bangladesh Bank, Janata Bank, Exim Bank, Trust Bank, Premier Bank, SIBL, Mercantile Bank, Jamuna Bank, Al-Arafah Islami Bank, National Bank, SOS Children Village, Berger Paints Bangladesh Ltd., Silkways and so on.

shakawath@acnabin-bd.com

Our Key Professionals

Mezanoor Rahman, FCA

Mahmudur Rahman, FCA

Ranesh Acharjee, FCA

Abdullah Al Mamun, FCA

Md. Mahedi Hasan, FCA

Mohammad Mutasim Hossain, FCA

A.N.M. Shakawath Hossain, CISA, CCISO

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