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Rahman Rahman Huq, Chartered Accountants, is a member firm of KPMG International.

In 1962, when Price Waterhouse Peat & Co. left Pakistan, a young and dynamic Chartered Accountant by the name of Rezaur Rahman set up Rahman Rahman Huq & Co. (later renamed Rahman Rahman Huq) with M. Saifur Rahman and Tashfin I. Huq.

During sixties, under the able guidance and dynamic leadership of the founders, business expanded very rapidly, mainly in the areas of Public Corporation Management Consultancy.

During these early days of development, RRH vigorously campaigned to convince the top management of Public Corporations and other Government bodies that management consultancy is a practice of helping organizations improve their performances primarily through the establishment of sound organization structure, designing a practical accounting manual and through analysis of the existing organizational and operational problems, which are expected to lead to the development of a plan for future improvement.

RRH developed rigorous analytical approach to study management strategy and convinced many organizations, such as Chittagong Port Trust, East Pakistan Railway Authority, Water & Sewerage Authorities, Trading Corporation of Pakistan, Shipping Corporation of Pakistan, Pakistan Television Corporation, Pakistan Printing Corporation and Pakistan International Airways that they were required to undertake a critical analysis of their organizational set up and operating system. RRH’s presentations to all these public corporations and Government bodies culminated into Management Consultancy contracts. For these assignments RRH recruited a large number of Chartered Accountants and experts in operational studies.

Following the successful execution of many consulting projects in Public Corporations, RRH started gaining Consulting assignments (sometime with the collaboration with overseas firms) with Private Sector companies, such as United Bank Ltd., Dawood Corporation in East Pakistan and Dawood Fertilizer, Saigal Group and Quetta Textile Groups in West Pakistan.

RRH was the pioneering firm in the whole of Pakistan to foresee the tremendous possibilities in Electronic Data Processing Consultancy. RRH set up a computer Bureau in 1967 in association with United Bank Ltd. It soon signed contracts for pay-roll processing and bill preparation, processing and distribution of Water and Sewerage Authority (both in Chittagong and Dhaka) and Electricity Board bills. RRH was the pioneer in East Pakistan to design and implement a system under which payment of Water and Electricity bills can be made in any Branch of the United Bank in East Pakistan.

Another area into which RRH developed expertise was in the of field feasibility studies for tourism and hospitality industries. Inter-continual Hotel in Dhaka and Holiday Inn in Karachi were the results of RRH’s feasibility studies. RRH also undertook a study of tourism for West Pakistan Government quite successfully.

RRH opened office in Karachi, Rawalpindi and Lohore during 1966 to 1968 and gained significant recognition in strategic management, operational management and business valuation consultancy.

Over the years some of the most able Chartered Accountants of the country joined the firm as partners. This is not only helped the firm service the challenges of the early 1970s, but to maintain its prominent position thereafter.

In the late 1980s RRH became a Representative Firm of KPMG (one of the major global accounting firms). In 2006, RRH was elevated to Member Firm status by KPMG, being the highest affiliation offered by any of the “Big 4” accounting firms.

In 2008, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) awarded RRH the status of an Approved Training Office. Students wishing to obtain ICAEW membership can now train with RRH. Since then one of our ICAEW students has already obtained ICAEW membership.

Today RRH provides Audit, Taxation and Advisory services from its two offices, Dhaka and Chittagong. RRH has professional association with most of the global names operating in Bangladesh, e.g. BAT, BOC/Linde, Bata, Chevron, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC, Grameenphone/Telenor, Banglalink/Orascom, Ericsson, Cemex, Holcim, Hewelett Packard, DELL, Pepsi, BBC etc. The firm’s local clients include Southeast Bank, Janata Bank, Summit Power, KAFCO, Transcom electronics etc. In addition, RRH has advised in most of the recent cross border transactions involving Bangladesh.

With three partners, one director and a host of professionals like Chartered Accountants, Certified Accountants, Tax Specialists and IT specialists, RRH’s commitment to the highest standard remains unchanged after five decades. The firm still believes in recruiting and retaining the best talent within the profession and motivating them to realize their full potential in a challenging and engaging environment within the uncompromising framework of professionalism and integrity.