Ganesh M. Pandit, CPA, CMA, DBA, Louisiana Tech University; MBA, University of Louisiana at Monroe. Mr. Pandit has a Post Graduate Diploma in Systems Management and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Bombay. Ganesh Pandit has previous experience in both public accounting at a chartered accountants firm and in industry. With more than 15 years of experience in teaching financial and managerial accounting at both undergraduate and graduate levels, Pandit currently is a faculty member at Adelphi University in Long Island, NY. He has authored and co-authored several articles on accounting and related topics that have appeared in both academic and practitioner journals. These articles include: “Auditor Compensation Pattern of S & P 500 Corporations Before and After the Passage of Sarbanes-Oxley Act,” in Journal of Applied Business Research, Summer 2007; “Are the Audit Committee Reports Disclosing Enough after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act? A study of NYSE Companies,” in Managerial Auditing Journal, Vol. 21, No. 1,( 2006), [selected as a Highly Commended Paper at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2007]; and “Audit Committee Reports Before and After the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: A Study of Companies Listed on the NYSE,” in The CPA Journal, October 2005 [solicited for a proposed book on Audit Committees by the ICFAI University, an academic institution in India]. Ganesh Pandit is a non-practicing C.P.A. from Louisiana.