Vivek Mande, Ph.D, is a Professor of Accounting and the Director for the Center for Corporate Reporting and Governance at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Mande teaches and researches in the areas of corporate governance, financial accounting, and auditing. He was the Academic Accounting Fellow at the Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Economic Analysis in Washington, D.C. from 2001–2002. Professor Mande holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from the Anderson Graduate School of Management, U.C.L.A. Dr. Mande is an Associate Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants. 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.