Accounting is as old as money itself. The modern system of Accounting is based on the principles of double entry system owes its origin to Luca Pacioli who published in 1494 that is every debit has its own correspondent credit. It is called the language of business. It is known to exist in pre-historic days and ancient civilization. Now a days accounting is an information system that identifies records and communicates the economic events of an organization to interested internal and external users. In Bangladesh accounting is playing a vital role for ascertaining financial position of an organization, results of operations, cost control and as a profession.
Department of Accounting, Dhaka College is one of the largest and well reputed departments of this college and in Bangladesh. This department is playing a vital role for achieving good result for commerce oriented students. Dhaka College launched the subject accounting in 1972 with a view to creating skilled private accountant and public accountant. After liberation former principal of Dhaka College, Prof. AMM Azhar took initiative to reorganize and open two separate departments namely Accounting and Management.
Professor Nazir Uddin Ahmed, Professor Gazi Ahmed, Professor Latifur Rahman, Professor Ali Azom, Professor Kazi Abul Hossain, Professor S.M Shahjahan, Professor Mohsinur Rahman, Professor Md Mahfuzur Rahman and other renowned educationists strongly assisted to open this department. As a result of the sincere effort of these personalities, the authority of the University of Dhaka permitted Dhaka College to launch the Honours Courses in Accounting & Management in the session 1972-1973.
Though the Honors Course in Accounting started in 1972-1973, the courses of both departments were conducted under the guidance and control of Business faculty, the University of Dhaka. The teachers of the both departments jointly conducted all the classes. Professor Nazir Uddin Ahmed was the 1st Chairman of this Department. A group of renowned teachers like Prof. Nazir Uddin Ahmed, Prof. Md. Ali Azam, Prof. Kazi Abul Hossain, Prof. Mohsinur Rahman Khan, Prof Md. Mahfuzur Rahan, Prof. S.M. Sakim Uddin, Prof. Md. Emdadul Haque, Prof. Abdul Mottalib, Prof. Anil Chandra Saha, Prof. Dr. Md. Ashraf Ali Khan had been serving here for quite a long time and developed this department with their highest efforts and efficiency. For their sincere attempt, merit and skillful handling this department has come out as the renowned department of the college within a very short period of time. At present the Head of the Department is Professor Tuhin Afroza Alam. The department is running very well under her effective leadership and guidance.
The Department of Accounting is unique because it possesses a rich Computer Lab which was established in 1998 by Prof. Md. Mahfuzur Rahman and inaugurated by Prof. Naiyer Sultana former Director General of Secondary and higher Secondary Education, Bangladesh. It was the first Computer Lab at Dhaka College. The Lab was conducted by Engr. Mohammed Iqbal Hossain, B.Sc and M.Sc in Computer Engineering, Former USSR. The Computer Lab was run by the effective supervision of renowned personalities like Prof. Anil Chandra Saha, Mr. Masume Rabbani Khan and Mr. I.K. Selim Ullah Khondoker. Further the Lab has been reorganized and modernized by Professor Tuhin Afroza Alam, Present Chairman of the Department with kind co-operation of Dr. Siraj Uddin Ahmed, Principal, Dhaka College and Dr. Ashraf Ali Khan, Vice- Principal, Dhaka College, Dhaka, Bangladesh. At present The Lab is being supervised by a group of renowned teachers like I.K. Selim Ullah Khondoker, Associate Professor, Shankar Chandra Saha, Associate Professor and S.M. Mahabubul Islam, Assistant Professor. A large number of students of this department have enriched their career by taking effective IT training from this Computer Lab. Nowadays, Computer in Business Course is included for BBS (Hon’s) curriculum as Compulsory paper under National University. For these reasons Lab will be very much handy for BBS (Hon’s) students to achieve the good result and to build their career.
From academic point of view The Department of Accounting is the richest department in Dhaka College. Highest number of students are obtaining First classes and they have placed topped the merit list in National University for a couple of years.
ABOUT - DHAKA COLLEGE
Dhaka College, located in Dhaka, is one of Bangladesh's most important and earliest higher educational institutions. It offers H.S.C., four years honours and one year masters course in various majors. The college is affiliated with the National University. Several thousand students study here, it has a number of student halls and many students participate in politics. Dhaka College was established by Dr. James Taylor (Civil Surgeon at Dhaka) in 1835 as an English School (at present Dhaka Collegiate School). Dr. James organized a local Committee of Public Instruction with the help of district magistrate Mr. Grant. The school building was built partly out of public donations on the grounds of an English factory. The school rose to college status in 1841 and buildings were completed in 1946, with the aid of the Bishop of Calcutta. In the first graduating class there were both Muslim and Hindu students, as well as a number of foreign students, mainly from Armenia and Portugal. The college was relocated in 1873 to a large building to the east of Victoria Park in order to accommodate the physics and chemistry laboratories. Later it shifted in 1908 to Curzon Hall while the science departments were housed in the present chemistry building of the University of Dhaka. In 1921 the college shifted again to the old High Court Building. During the Second World War it moved to Siddique Bazar in purana Dhaka. Finally the College found its own permanent campus on Mirpur Road near Dhaka New Market since 1955.
Dhaka College LibraryThe Library of Dhaka College was established in 1841 at the time of establishment of the college. At present the library is accommodated in 1st floor of main building of the college and the collection is over 40,000. Students, teachers and other personnel of the college can take out books from the library except the reference books via the card system.
Residential student halls: There are eight residential halls:
South Hall
North Hall
International Hall
West Hall
Elias Hall
Shaheed Farhad Hossain Hall
Southern Hall
Sheikh Kamal Hall
Transport Dhaka college has 04 buses to transport students from different areas of Dhaka city. They are: 1. Puspak 2. Shankhanil 3. Shankhachil 4. Poddonil
Anwarul Iqbal, BPM (Bar), PPM was an adviser (2007–2009) to the interim Caretaker Government of Bangladesh, Founder Director General of the Elite force RAB
National University of Bangladesh is a parent university of Bangladesh that was established by an Act of Parliament as an affiliating University of the country to impart graduate and post-graduate level education to the students through its affiliated colleges and professional institutions throughout the country. It is the 2nd largest university in the world according to enrollment. The headquarter is in Gazipur, on the outskirts of Dhaka. It is a postgraduate teaching and research university as well as an affiliating university. It is state-run and public. The university has a school and a centre. It has established institutes that provide courses leading to M.Phil. and PhD. degrees. The Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (IHS) was introduced in 1997 to offer two-year M.Phil. following modern American credit hour and semester system including course work, two-month internship and thesis guided by supervisor. The M.Phil. is an interdisciplinary degree which is intensive enough to help the students to pursue Ph.D. courses. The course is open to faculty members who are employed at universities and colleges. Four more institutes — the Institute of Liberation and Bangladesh Studies (ILBS), Institutes of National Science (INS), Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), and Institute of Business and Management Studies (IBMS) — have all the formalities complete toward their constitutions and are soon to provide higher courses related to science, needs of life, and national heritage. Very few of the teachers teaching at honors and masters level have higher training. The training programme of the university is designed to augment the knowledge of the college teachers, enhance their skill in teaching and get them an exposure to higher ideas. Eminent educationists and scholars of the country are associated with the academic programmes provided on campus.
There are four academic units:
School of Under Graduate Studies
Centre for Post-Graduate Studies Training & Research
M. Phil./Ph.D.Programme Unit
Centre for Curriculum Development and Evaluation
The school and centers organize education in colleges and improve the standard. The university provides bachelor's, honors and master's degrees in ten disciplines: languages, humanities, social science, commerce and business administration, physical sciences, mathematical sciences, biological science, education, law and computer technology. Apart from the units providing campus teaching at Board Bazar, Gazipur, the university has about 1,688 component/affiliated colleges. These colleges under its academic control cater for courses leading to Pass, Honours and master's degrees. The university exercises academic control over the colleges according to the National University Act 1992 mandated by the National Parliament of Bangladesh and the statutes of the university. It provides the curricula and syllabi, arranges admission test, gives guidelines for admission, arranges inspection, holds examination, publishes results, and awards certificates. The college curricula and syllabi are being standardized and modernized in consonance with national ideology. The new syllabuses came into effect from the last academic session. The National University of Bangladesh is now the fifth largest university in the world after its 17-year history by its number of registered students at affiliated colleges. It is also one of the largest universities in the world by number of affiliated colleges and number of expanding subjects and courses.