Dr. Md Tapan Mahmud started his teaching career in 2010 at ASA University Bangladesh. Later, he joined BUP in 2011 – he is among the first pool of BUP’s faculty members. He was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2014. Dr. Tapan is proud to play the role of the founder chairman of the Department of Accounting & Information Systems (AIS) from October 2015 to April 2018. Within this timeline, he was instrumental in pioneering the academic and administrative infrastructure of the AIS department. Additionally, he played a crucial part in bridging an MOU between the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the AIS department in 2017, which was renewed again in2023. Dr. Tapan earned a Japanese Embassy-recommended Monbusho scholarship in2018, completed his PhD focused on sustainability accounting from Kyushu University and rejoined BUP in 2022; he was promoted to Associate Professor in2023.

His research and teaching interests revolve around sustainability, accountability, governance, ethics, and accounting education. Dr. Tapan believes that accounting is misunderstood as a ‘number-crunching’ discipline and has huge potential to positively influence numerous social indicators. He is toiling diligently to transform ‘accounting-academia’ into ‘accountability-academia’, pursuing his belief.

Currently, he wants to establish a qualitative-conceptual research lab focused on his research interests - Sustainability, Accountability, Governance. Additionally, he is closely working with various professional accounting bodies to lessen the academia-industry gap of the accounting education paradigm. 

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Recent Publications

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·       Mahmud,M.T. (2025), Professional Accounting in Public Interest, Presented at theannual seminar of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems,Bangladesh University of Professionals, Dhaka, Bangladesh (4^thNovember).

·       Mahmud,M.T. (2025), Ethical Decision Making for the Business Professionals, Presentedat the 23^rd Forum of the SME Enterprises Research Institute,Osaka Economics University, Osaka, Japan (26^th September).

·       Mahmud,M.T. (2025), Impact Accounting: Fundamentals for ESG Reporting, Seminar(special lecture) at the Institute for Asian and Oceanian Studies (Q-AOS),Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (29^th September).

·       Akter,P., Mahmud, M.T. and Nakamoto, R. (2024), Managerial Perspectives on thePost-automation Human Factor Management and Its Alignment to the ComplianceProcess in the Bangladeshi RMG Industry, Presented at the 16th JOMSAConference, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan (12th October)

·       Mahmud,M.T. (2024), Why Are Japanese Companies Publishing Integrated Reports, Presentedat the 32^nd BICM Research Seminar, Bangladesh Institute ofCapital Market, Dhaka (5^th March).

·       Mahmud,M.T. (2023), Critical Perspective of Accounting, PhD seminar (speciallecture) in Financial Accounting, Kyushu University, Fukuoka (7^thNovember).

·       Mahmud,M.T. (2019), Quest for a Single Theory to Explain Managerial Motivation forSustainability Disclosures: Legitimacy Theory, Stakeholder Theory orInstitutional Theory, Presented at the 36th JAIAS Research Conference,Hosei University, Tokyo (1st September)

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   Dhiman,C., Mahmud, M.T., Akhter, T. and Khan, S. (2025), Applied Accounting Theory,Grantha Kutir, Dhaka.
https://www.rokomari.com/book/521712/applied-accounting-theory

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1. Sustainability, Governance & Accountability, Ethics, Accounting Education

1. Japanese Embassy recommended MEXT Scholarship – 2018