Petroleum School of Accounting and Financial Sciences

Faculty of Accounting and Financial Sciences of Petroleum University of Technology, National Iranian Oil Company is the oldest and the most famous center of higher education in accounting. The Faculty was established in 1958, seven years after the nationalization of the oil industry, by the scholars such Prof. Hassan Sajjadi Nejad and Dr. Esmail Erfani with the support of Abdullah Entezam, then CEO of National Iranian Oil Company. The school started with 61 students from the Higher Institute of Accounting and Compliance with National Iranian Oil Company personnel launches. Currently, the college has the departments of

1. accounting and finance
2. economics and energy management
3. law
4. industrial engineering

History

• Founded in 1958, seven years after the nationalization of the oil industry, by the scholars such Prof. Hassan Sajjadi Nejad, the father of accounting in Iran and Dr. Esmail Erfani with the support of Abdullah Entezam, then CEO of National Iranian Oil Company, by the name of "the Higher School of Accounting".
• In 1962, the students of the first class of Accounting were graduated.
• In 1972 the Higher School of Accounting renamed to "School of Accounting and Financial Sciences of National Iranian Oil Company".
• After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, merged with the Allameh Tabatabai University, but in 1988 started its career under the name of "School of Accounting and Financial Sciences of the National Iranian Oil Company".
• In 1989 the School of Accounting and Financial Sciences merged with the Petroleum University of Technology and now is known as the Tehran Faculty of Accounting, Economics, and Management (Petroleum School of Accounting and Financial Sciences).

َAcademics

َDepartments

The Faculty has four Departments:

• Department of Accounting and Finance
• Department of Energy Economics and Management
• Department of Law
• Department of Industrial Engineering

Programs

There are some programs given in PUT School of Accounting and Financial Sciences

• BSc. of Accounting
• BSc. of Management in Business
• BSc. of Industrial Management
• MSc. of Finance (Track; Corporate Finance)
• MSc. of Managerial Accounting
• MSc. of Law
• MSc. of Energy Economics
• MSc. of Reservoir Management
• MSc. of Industrial Engineering (Track; Production Management)

Former Presidents

Chancellor	Tenure	Alma mater	Speciality
Dr. Esmail Erfani	1958-?	London School of Economics	Accounting
Prof. Hassan Sajadi Nejad	1969-1979	ICAEW	Accounting
Reza Mostajeran	1988-1994	Petroleum School of Accounting and Financial Sciences	Accounting
Dr. Fereydoon Ahrabi	1994-?	Stanford University	Statistics
Dr. Abolghasem Emamzadeh	?-2004	University of Wales	Mathematics
Dr. Karim Salahshour	2004–2011	University of Manchester	Electronic Engineering
Dr. Nabi Hashemi	2011–2014	Imperial College London	Petroleum Engineering
Prof. Riyaz Kharat	2014–current	University of Kansas	Chemical Engineering

Academic background

Since its establishment, Petroleum School of Accounting always had admitted the top students of National Wide University Entrance Examinations (Konkur).^[1] Additionally, according to the results of MS Entrance Examinations PUT students are the best among other universities like Sharif University of Technology and Amirkabir University of Technology^[2] and Petroleum School of Accounting and Financial Sciences has major contribution in obtaining this honor.^[3][4]

Notable alumni

• Valiollah Seif, Governor of Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Dr. Ali M. Sedaghat, Professor of Sellinger School of Business in loyola University Maryland^[5]
• Dr. Hossein B. Kazemi, Michael & Cheryl Philipp Professor of Finance, University of Massachusetts Amherst^[6]
• Prof. Mohammad S.Bazaz, Professor of Accounying California State University
• Prof. Massood Saffarian, Professor of Accounting Rogers State University^[7]
• Dr. Mahnaz Mahdavi, Ann F. Kaplan Director & Professor of Economics, Smith College^[8]
• Gholamreza Salami, one of Iranian eminent Accounting leaders
• Allahverdi Rajaei Salmasi, the first secretary of Iran Exchange Market
• Abolghasem Fakharian, chairman of Iranian Institute of Certified Accountants

References