FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                               2001-46
                              
                              
      VIVEK MANDE APPOINTED ACADEMIC ACCOUNTING FELLOW
                 OFFICE OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
                              

     Washington, DC, May 10, 2001 --The Securities and
Exchange Commission's Office of Economic Analysis recently
selected Professor Vivek Mande as the Academic Accounting
Fellow for a one-year term beginning August 2001. Currently,
Professor Mande is the William Hockett Professor of
Accountancy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where he
teaches International  and Financial Accounting.  He serves
on the University's Faculty Senate and Graduate Councils and
is the Graduate Program Advisor for the Master of Accounting
Program in the Department of Accounting.

Prior to joining the University of Nebraska at Omaha faculty
in 1992, Professor Mande was an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Accounting at  The City University of New York-
Baruch.   He  also held a  visiting faculty  appointment  at
the  University of Arizona. Professor Mande holds a Ph.D. in
Accounting from the Anderson Graduate School of Management,
UCLA and a M.S. in Accounting from Washington State
University.  He is an Associate Member of Institute of
Chartered Accountants, India.

Professor Mande's research interests include various issues
concerning U.S. and international capital markets and
accounting . He has examined how U.S. and international
financial analysts use financial data to make predictions
and  has studied the reaction of  stock markets to analysts'
predictions and other information releases.   His research
findings have been published in Contemporary Accounting
Research,  Journal of Accounting and Public Policy,
International Journal of Accounting, Abacus, Accounting and
Business Research and a number of other journals.


At the Commission, the Academic Accounting Fellow serves as
a research resource for  the staff by interpreting and
communicating research materials as they relate to various
areas of interest to the SEC. In addition, the Academic
Fellow has been assigned to ongoing projects in the Office
of Economic Analysis, including designing and conducting
studies of the economic impact of existing and proposed
rules, providing analytical support and advice to the Chief
Economist and senior Commission staff on regulatory policy,
enforcement policy, and financial economics as it relates to
financial reporting and auditing.



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