About

Mr. Khalek is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and has his Masters of Commerce in Accounting from the University of Dhaka. He completed Strategic Finance Program (2007) and Top Management Program (2012) from Asian Institute of Management, Manila. He also completed Senior Management Program (1999) and Top Management Program (2003) from Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. Under the umbrella of EuroMoney Learning Solution of UK, in year 2014 he completed Corporate Governance Course in New York and in 2017 another course in Corporate Governance in London. Also completed course on International Accounting Standards in Dubai under the umbrella of Institute of International Research.

He joined ‘Proshika Manobik Unnayan Kendra’, a leading national NGO in 1985 as an Auditor. He was Chief Internal Auditor while leaving Proshika in June 1993. Mr. Khalek joined Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited in 1993 as Management Accountant. Over the period, he served the company under different capacities and retired as Director and CFO on 2nd July, 2019. Berger has again appointed..

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Appearances

Mr. Khalek's activities have appeared in different news papers, online news portals even in different magazines. As a Director and CFO of Berger Paints and as a national scholer he is recongnize among many for his ongoing activities. His participation in every major meetings, conferences, award ceremonies and agreement signing events has turned into very effective in various points. Few of his effective appearances can be found in this section.

Training

Four consecutive Saturday starting from 12th October, 2019 (2nd batch), intensive training course on

"VAT Planning and Management" for Accountants, VAT Agents, VAT Auditors and VAT consultants."

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12th October, 2019

Total 16 classes for each batch on 4 consecutive Saturday (From 9 AM to 5.00 PM with break for lunch and prayer.

BDT 16,000 (Net of VAT and TAX)

Including the cost of lunch, refreshment and training material.

Consulting Services

Mr. Abdul Khalek is the founder and Chief Consultant of A.Khalek and Associates. On completion of almost 4 decades of service in Finance, Tax and VAT Planning Management, Internal Audit, Corporate Governance and Secretarial Functions of Leading MNC and NGO, Mr. Khalek has established A.Khalek and Associates to provide professional services to corporate body. Click on the below button to know more about all the services.

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Recent Activities

January 19, 2020

Mr. Khalek with some students of MBA program of Eastern University in the concluding session of Fall 2019 course. View more

January 13, 2020

Mr. Khalek in the closing session of the training on new VAT Laws at the Corporate Office of Berger Paints. The participants are from Bangladesh Paints Manufactures Association. View more

December 9, 2019

Mr. Khalek is leading the FICCI Team in a discussion on Customs Duty with Mr. Sayed Golam Kibria, Member Customers and ICT, NBR. View more

December 9, 2019

Mr. Khalek is leading the FICCI Team in a discussion on Tax issues with Mr. Alamgir Hossain, Member-Tax Policy, NBR. View more

December 3, 2019

Mr. Khalek led the FICCI Team in a discussion on VAT issues with Dr. Abdul Mannan Sikder, Member Tax Policy, NBR. View more

November 25, 2019

Mr. Khalek in the closing session of the September to November 2019 evening coaching classes with some Certificate Level CA students at ICAB Academic campus, Kawranbazar, Dhaka. View more

Achievements

As Director and CFO at Berger Paints

Berger Paints Bangladesh Ltd. got 2nd position at ICMAB Best Corporate Award 2017

Berger Paints Bangladesh Ltd. awarded highest VAT Payers Award in 2016-2017

Berger Paints Bangladesh Ltd. awarded 4th highest tax payers in 2015-2016

Berger Paints Bangladesh Ltd. awarded highest tax payers in 2014-2015

Berger Paints Bangladesh Ltd. awarded 3rd position by ICMAB in 2015

Berger Paints Bangladesh Ltd. got second position at ICMAB Best Corporate Award 2014

As A National Scholar

Guest Speaker, Seminar on Application and Importance on IAS and IFRS in Formulating Corporate Financial Statements at IUT in 2019

Guest Speaker at Management Accounting Seminer in IUT in 2019..

Keynote Speaker at Member's Conference on an analytical study of significant amendments made by the Finance Act (#04) 2014 and SROs..

Paper Presenter at CPD Seminar on Draft Direct Tax Act, 2011 and Draft VAT Act, 2011 organized by The Institute of Chartered Accountants

Paper Presenter at CPE Seminar on Finance Ordinence 2008-09 organized by IIAB

Resource Person at Corporate Reporting of 3rd Continuing Professional Development(CPD) Program - 2007

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Mr. Khalek was invited by Ekushe Television on one of the most popular program "Ekusher Raat" to talk about Budget 2019-20 and it's implementation and challenges. He briefly talkes about different aspects on this topic along with two other very renowned guest. Ekushe Television is one of the most reputed national TV channel of Bangladesh, which is also broadcasted in different countries of the world.

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Articles

NBR Gets Down to Work on Tax Rate Rationalisation, The Financial Express

Mr. Khalek's opinion appeared in an article at The Finacial Express on 20th January, 2019. The article is written by Doulat Akter Mala. Mr. Khalek said, the government should set a target to reduce the corporate tax rate by at least 10 percent over the next five years. The actual tax incidence for corporate taxpayers is much higher than that of the corporate tax rates due to..

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Is Super Rich Tax a Boon or Bane For Revenue Growth?

Achievement of revenue target through vertical growth i.e. collecting more tax from existing taxpayers is easier than achievement of the same through horizontal growth i.e through enhancement of tax base. The government should opt for horizontall growth; otherwise, the honest taxpayers will disappear from the society.

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Finance Act 2012: Removing Impediments to Investment in Industrial Sector

The manufacturing activities of the country are largely assembling and mixing operations and accordingly the manuracturing cycle starts at import point and ends at retails stage. Therefore, the fiscal measures originating from customs, income tax and VAT laws have significant impact on manufacturing activities.

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Corporate Reporting

Corporate report is readily understandable, timely, reliable and relevant information for the stakeholders of an organiztion to initiate most appropriate economic decision. Generally corporate reports are found in the form of annual report. The annual report has long been used by an enterprise as a primary vehicle of communication, not only with it's invstors or members, but also with other audiences who, for a variety of reasons, hav a legitimate...

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An Overview on Draft Value Added Tax Act 2011

Value Added Tax (VAT) is a tax on value addition. It was introduced first in France in 1954 and so far more than 140 countries of the world have adopted it. Bangladesh introduced VAT in 1991 as a replacement of Sales Tax and Excise Duty. Initially VAT was imposed at manufacturing and import stage and has since been expanded to retail stage. This expansion of the VAT net caused many complications..

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VAT: A Bottleneck To Industrial Development

To ensure sustainable development, there is no alternative to industrialisation. A company should oblige numerous legal rules of different laws to run an industrial undertaking. VAT act 1991 is an unit of the portfolio of laws to be complied with by every industrial company. The provisions of VAT law are equally applicable to all manufacturers having turnover exceeding Tk 15 lac. Samll and cottage..

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Manufacturing Sector in This Year's Budget, The Daily Star

The Finance Minister pronounced that the key objective of this budget is poverty reduction. Poverty reduction is only possible by the development of the manufacturing sector whihc is the basis of sustainable economic development.

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Where Industries will have to Bear the Brunt, The Financial Express

Industries needs huge investments while returns thereon come relatively later. Industrial investments carry higher risks and, therefore, demand risk premiums. Irrespective of territories, investment moves always behind returns. For an existing unit, return denotes the profit net of taxes while in case of newly established ones enjoying tax holiday, the entire profit turnts into returns..

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VAT on Retail Price: A Forward Step Turned Backward

Value Added Tax (VAT) a dynamic system of revenue collection was introduced in 1991. In spite of some procedural gap the system has proved it's worthiness eliminating long accumulated complicacies of former excise system. Being an underdeveloped country we are largely dependent upon foreign loan and aids and consequently dominated by the donors formulating important national policies. To get rid..

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Contact

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