Our Vision:
The NSU Center for Business Research will create an outstanding climate of investigation and knowledge development at NSU focusing on local, regional, and global businesses and economies enabling stellar research advances.
Our Mission:
To enable our business research community achieve success, the NSU Center for Business Research has the following missions:
• To partner with the business research community to develop a culture of research excellence
• To build and continuously update reliable economic and business databases on Bangladesh
• To promote shared responsibility, ethical research, and research integrity
• To enhance business researchers’ ability to obtain and manage grants
• To invest in promising research projects.
• To create a transparent research administration, infrastructure, and streamlined process for facilitating research
• To advocate for the needs of the NSU business and economics research community
• To broaden awareness amongst stakeholders on the value of business and economic research at NSU
• To develop strong relationships with funding bodies
• To enhance international research competencies in NSU business academics
• To support interdisciplinary research at NSU
We expect to undertake a number of programs, some of them are listed below:
Database Development
Capability Development
Assist non-PhD faculty members in writing PhD proposals and provide them with guidelines to seek admission in PhD programs.
Collaboration and Funding
Research Environment Development
Broader Programs
Seminars and workshops
Research Projects
Research seminar on 5th October, 2020
Managing Receivables for Manufacturing and Trading Firms in Bangladesh
Sharif N. Ahkam (Contact Author, Professor: Accounting and Finance)
Nazmun Nahar (Senior Lecturer: Accounting and Finance)
Shabnin Rahman Shorna(Lecturer: Management)
Abstract. If the profitability of a firm is affected by inefficient working capital practices, it is logical to assume that an adjustment to working capital practices will improve profitability. When the policy and practices are reasonably efficient, tweaking practices is not expected to be very beneficial. We should be able to observe benefits from adjustment in working capital practices for those companies which are clearly outside the norm in the industry. We examine the data on working capital from Bangladesh for the years 2000-2017 to see if companies with inefficient working capital levels benefit from adjustments toward the norm.
The data, however, produced a number of surprises. We expected that firms with very strict management of receivables would be able to improve profitability by relaxing credit and increase sales. The data points out to opposite result. Firms carrying very high receivables to sales were expected to benefit from a reduction in receivables. That did not happen either. This seems to be happening in the emerging economies everywhere. It is argued in the paper that once a firm finds itself outside the norm, it will find it difficult to get back to the practices and policies of average companies. Specific actions and reactions will depend on the situation and any suggestion that management should try to fine-tune working capital management is unlikely to produce much value unless the underlying circumstances are taken into account.
The Google meet link to join this seminar: https://meet.google.com/
I would like to invite you all to a virtual seminar on 12th November, from 2.00pm to 3.30 pm. Mr. Ifty Islam, Chairman, Asian Tiger Capital & Global Head of Business Development, Kingdom International will be the speaker for the session. The title of his presentation is "FinTech in Bangladesh" (as attached).
Fintech has already started driving the financial market in Bangladesh. Nagad, Shopup and bkash are some of the examples. SBE, as a leader in business education, is considering introducing FinTech in our teaching programs. I am sure we all can learn about FinTech in Bangladesh from this expart's presentation.
Thanks to our respected Dean, Professor Abdul Hannan Chowdhury for organising the presenter. Professor Chowdhury will also be present in this virtual presentation.
The Google meet link to join: https://meet.google.com/lookup/hdrwl2zw6k
I hope to see you all on this virtual event.
Thank you,
Dr. Mohammad I Azim CA, CPA, CMA
Professor, Accounting and Finance
Director, NSU Center for Business Research
North South University
While the Center will be an independent entity hosted by the SBE, the Director of the NSU CBR will report to the Vice Chancellor and the Vice Chancellor will keep the Board of Trustees apprised of the activities of the NSU CBR.
NSU CBR will interact with all the academic disciplines of the University even though the interest of the Center is mostly concentrated on business and economic issues. A continuous interactive relationship should develop between the NSU CBR and all schools, Institutes and Centers of the university. Program contents and research reports will be saved at the Center Office and recorded on the university archive and reported and advertised on Center website. The University’s technology system will provide the necessary support to facilitate the interaction between the NSU CBR and all schools. The IT department will also assist in managing a structure to disseminate the information on achievement in the research arena of NSU, highlight major activities, and provide necessary research support in terms of software, data collection, data storage, data base building and archiving. The treasurer’s office, in conjunction with the Director, Finance and Accounts, will ensure that proper policy is followed in disbursement of funds and oversee the budgets of NSU CBR. A separate account of NSU CBR within the NSU accounting system will be maintained.
The following functional organogram is descriptive of the NSU CBR (proposed).
Figure: Organogram of NSU CBR
The NSU CBR shall undertake various programs. These programs shall often be concentrated on various disciplines within business and economic research. To offer smooth operations of these programs for different research concentrations, NSU CBR will have several focused areas for research (identified as Cell in the above diagram) with designated Head of Research Cells. Few notable areas would be index development for the economy or a specific sector, Entrepreneurship development, Big Data analytics, skill development and organization competency, CSR and societal development, climate change and sustainability, consumer behavior, financial market analysis, SME development, corporate governance and ethics, and migration, poverty, and economic development. New cells may be added depending on the interest of the faculty members, students, and the general public. The Heads of Research Cells shall work with NSU CBR staff to oversee progress of various programs. The Director shall call regular meetings to discuss progress of various programs.
Managing Receivables for Manufacturing and Trading Firms in Bangladesh
Date: 5th October, 2020 11 am - 12.30 pm
Presenters:
Sharif N. Ahkam (Contact Author, Professor: Accounting and Finance)
Nazmun Nahar (Senior Lecturer: Accounting and Finance)
Shabnin Rahman Shorna(Lecturer: Management)
Program recording link:
Date: 12th November 2.00pm to 3.30 pm
Presenter: Mr. Ifty Islam, Chairman, Asian Tiger Capital & Global Head of Business Development, Kingdom International.
Program recording link:
Passcode: 4c9%f%nr
Please contact:
Professor Dr. Mohammad Istiaq Azim CA, CPA, CMA
Director, NSU Center for Business Research (NSU-CBR)
Room Number NAC 737North South University
Bashundhara R/A
Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh
Phone: +88 02 55668200, ext. 6310
Mobile: +88 01767688164
Fax: +88 02 55668202
Email: XXXX@northsouth.edu