Accounting Professors Receive $25,000 Awards

Fatima Alali, Myungsoo Son and Vivek Mande were the recipients of awards presented by Ernst & Young, Moss Adams, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers

January 22, 2008

By Valerie Orleans

Three Cal State Fullerton accounting professors were recently each awarded $25,000 for their work in teaching and research.

Fatima Alali of Placentia, Myungsoo Son of Fullerton and Vivek Mande of Irvine, were the recipients of awards presented, respectively, by Ernst & Young, Moss Adams, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Alali, Son and Mande were selected based on their excellent records of teaching and research, according to Betty Chavis, chair and professor of accounting.

Alali, associate professor of accounting, teaches auditing and has research interests in financial accounting and reporting. Alali, who joined Cal State Fullerton last fall, is the author of “An Examination of Earnings-Return Association: Comparison Between Different U.S. Stock Exchanges” published in the June 2005 issue of the Indian Accounting Review. A member of Beta Gamma Sigma and the American Accounting Association, Alali earned her doctorate in management, accounting and AIS from Rutgers University in 2005 and served for two years as an assistant professor at the New York Institute of Technology.

Son, associate professor of accounting, conducts research in the areas of capital markets, audit quality and international accounting. His research has been published in the well-regarded Auditing Journal.  A member of the campus teaching staff since September, Son teaches courses in intermediate financial reporting. Previously, he was assistant professor at the State University of New York, Oenonta, and previously was a CPA at the Securities Exchange Commission in Seoul. He has a doctorate in accounting from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Mande, professor of accounting, is the director of 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 has provided training to foreign private issuers on US — GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) issues. Mande is the author of a portfolio on Accounting for Share-Based Compensation, as well as numerous papers and articles. He has presented papers at conferences throughout the world. He also teaches graduate accounting classes as well as intermediate financial reporting.

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.

“We are very proud of our faculty and their accomplishments, and we are pleased to see that their achievements are also recognized by their professional peers,” said Chavis.