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. 

B.B.A, University of Dhaka
M.B.A, University of Dhaka
Ph.D, Graduate School of Economics of Kyushu University, Japan

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Mahmud, M.T. (2022), Why are the JapaneseCompanies Publishing Integrated Reports? Perceiving through the Lens ofInstitutional Theory. In Noronha, C. and Donleavy, G. (Eds.), ContemporaryCSR and Sustainable Development, Taylor & Francis, Oxfordshire. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003274575-15/japanese-companies-publishing-integrated-reports-md-tapan-mahmud

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       Mahmud, M.T. (2022), History and InstitutionalSetting of Corporate Social Reporting (CSR): The Japanese Context, Journalof Innovation in Business Studies, 2(1):1-24. http://journal.bup.edu.bd/Journals/Article/Download/1065

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6. Rahman, N., Ghosh, R. and Mahmud, M.T. (2024),Unification of fintech platforms: reshaping the Bangladeshi financial frontier,Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management, Vol. ahead-of-printNo. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSTPM-01-2024-0022

7. Akter,P., Nakamoto, R. and Mahmud, M.T. (2025), Evolution and Trends in Bangladesh’sReady-Made Garment Industry Research: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis, BUFTJournal of Business and Economics, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.58481/BJBE/2509

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     Adnan, A., Mahmud,M.T., Al Mamun, A. (2026), The impact of geopolitical crisis on defense andaerospace stock performance: evidence from the Russia–Ukraine war. AccountingResearch Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/ARJ-05-2025-0176

9. H.M. Bokhtiar, Mahmud, M.T.,  Uddin, G.S, Ali. A., Donghyun, P., John, B (2025). Does Digitalization Lead to Climate Awareness? A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis. ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 821, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5794363

1. Akter, P., Mahmud, M.T. and Nakamoto, R. (2024), Managerial Perspectives on the Post-automation Human Factor Management and Its Alignment to the Compliance Process in the Bangladeshi RMG Industry, Presented at the 16th JOMSA Conference, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan (12th October). 

2. Mahmud, M.T. (2019), Quest for a Single Theory to Explain ManagerialMotivation for Sustainability Disclosures: Legitimacy Theory, StakeholderTheory or Institutional Theory, Presented at the 36th JAIAS ResearchConference, 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