Dr. Vivek Mande

White, Nelson Professor of Accounting
Director, Center for Corporate Reporting & Governance

SGMH 4357
Fullerton, CA 92834-6848
Phone: (657) 278-7659 Fax: (657) 278-4518
vmande@fullerton.edu

Dr. Mande is the Director for the Center for Corporate Reporting and Governance (CCRG) which organizes SEC financial reporting training conferences for Boards of Directors, audit committees, auditors and accountants in Southern California. He is the 2007-2008 PricewaterhouseCoopers Faculty Fellow. In addition to being a Professor at Cal State Fullerton, he has provided training to foreign private issuers on US GAAP issues. He was the 2001-2002 Academic Fellow at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington DC.

Dr. Mande is the author of Accounting for Share-Based Compensation (2006) published by BNA (Arlington, VA). He has been quoted in numerous newspapers and articles such as KPMG’s Audit Committee Insight and Compliance Week.  His analysis of executive compensation was the front page story of the Orange County Register in Summer 2006. He has made presentations on US accounting issues in numerous countries including Taiwan, mainland China, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, India, Germany and Singapore. Dr. Mande obtained his Ph.D from the Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA.

Dr. Mande was named the Outstanding Faculty for 2005 by the College's Executive Council. He was the recipient of the Droulliard Scholar Award in Spring 2004, and was the Moss Adams Accounting Research Fellow for 2002, 2003, and 2004. Prior to joining Cal State Fullerton, Professor Mande held faculty appointments at the City University of New York- Baruch, the University of Arizona and the University of Nebraska, Omaha. His research interests include various issues regarding auditor independence and earnings quality. He has also examined how analysts use financial data to make predictions and has studied the reaction of stock markets to analysts' predictions. His research findings have been published in Contemporary Accounting Research, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, International Journal of Accounting, ABACUS, Accounting and Business Research and a number of other journals.

Education
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Specialization

• Corporate Governance
• Auditor Independence
• Earnings Quality