You don't show us enough code to be sure what is going wrong, but the following sample may contain the kernel of an "ahh" moment for you:

use warnings;
use strict;

package BankAccount;

sub new {
    my ($class, $name, $accountNo) = @_;

    return bless {name => $name, accountNo => $accountNo, balance => 0
+}, $class;
}

sub getName {
    my ($self) = @_;

    return $self->{name};
}


package main;

my $acct = BankAccount->new('Foo', '1234');

print $acct->getName();
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Prints:

Foo
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There is nothing much different there than you were doing aside from what I consider to be better style. I suspect that you weren't calling the member correctly, but as you don't show that code I can't be sure.

If the "Ahh" moment doesn't arrive for you show your equivalent of the code above.