Mobile phone operator Grameenphone won a top award of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) for publishing transparent financial statements and annual report for 2009.
The award was given in the category of communication and IT sector, Grameenphone said in a statement yesterday.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith handed the award at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel on Sunday.
Raihan Shamsi, deputy chief executive officer and chief financial officer of Grameenphone, received the award.
Grameenphone also stood first-runner-up in the South Asian region on the same ground, announced by the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA).
Finance Minister of Nepal Surendra Pandey handed over the award at a SAFA ceremony in Kathmandu on December 12.
Grameenphone came to the stockmarket in November 2009 with the country’s largest initial public offering. The company had around 110,000 shareholders in June 2010 when the annual report was published.
