Mr. Amirus Salat is an associate 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. Recently 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 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 project was funded by the Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) of the World Bank. Its implementation is governed by the HEQEP of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh.

During his large career which is over 17 years he participated vividly in various administrative and co-curricular activities. He worked as a director of external affairs for the Department of Accounting & Information Systems of University of Dhaka. He also worked as a students’ counsellor of the same Department. He organized and coordinated large-scale programs like Training program, Seminar and Workshop and so on.