Given the significance and importance of
intellectual capital in knowledge-intensive firms like
banks, it is important to know to what extent banks
disclose intellectual capital information. It is expected
that knowledge-intensive firms like banks will disclose
more intellectual capital information. But in
Bangladesh, we know very little about the extent of
intellectual capital disclosure of conventional banks
with Islamic window. That’s why this study aims to find
the intellectual capital (IC) disclosing patterns of a
conventional bank having Islamic banking window. To
fulfill the objective of this study a content analysis is
undertaken. Both the volume and frequency of
disclosure have been identified. The longitudinal time
frame covers 18 financial years from 2000-2017. Key
results include the dominance of internal capital-related
disclosure based on total proportionate sentences
compared to human and external capital and an overall
increasing trend of intellectual capital disclosure since
2009. This study also develops a theoretical framework
to explain the reasons for such results.
Keywords : Intellectual Capital, Internal Capital, Conventional Bank Having Islamic Window.