Certified Fraud Examiner

What is a Certified Fraud Examiner? These are people who put many hours of hard work into finding any fraudulent acts that a company may be causing. The adventures but, nevertheless, important, relationship between investigators and clients is something that needs to be understood. While some have been captivated by fraudulent acts people portray, some don’t find it as interesting as others do. Although it is a very interesting topic, the certified fraud examiners have skills and training that make them investigators, much like an FBI agent who investigates crime. The certified fraud examiners not only find misappropriated statements, but they also are trained in having ethics and values that people today, have very little of . Being a certified…

According to ACFE’s article on False Employee Claims, “Occupational fraud is fraud committed by an employee on an employer during their employment” (False Employee Claims – Payroll Fraud, n.d.) “Common expenses claimed are private meal costs classified as business meals with clients, private travel expenses, and other entertainment expenses classified as business expenses” (False Employee Claims – Payroll Fraud, n.d.). In this case, the employee who is a “rising star” claims non-business…

are not comparable to the rest of the sample. - Adult norms collected in 2005-2006 3. The child’s name, age, date of examination and name of examiner is needed on the record form 4. Examination date minus child’s birthdate – count more than 15 days as one month 5. There is no introduction to the test/subtest – it is not necessary to come up with one. 6. The manual is oddly organized. I found it was difficult to find essential material as it was spread all throughout the manual. Section B:…

procedural model prevents the same test to be run over, and over again, on the same piece of evidence; it is a way for the police and forensic analysts to save time and money. An efficient time-saving method the police use is a pre-printed form on the outer side of the evidence containers; as a result, the forensic examiner fills out the form and places the evidence in the container, with the filled out form on the container, preventing misplacement of the form (Saferstein, 2015). According to…

INTRODUCTION This paper is written to summarize my learnings from the Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud and Abuse (“Report to the Nations”) published by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (“ACFE”). Most sections of the Report to the Nations will be written about individually. The sections of the Report to the Nation that will be discussed are as follows: 1. The Cost of Occupational Fraud; 2. How Occupational Fraud is Committed; 3. Detection of Fraud Schemes; 4. Victim…

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) defines fraud as “deception” or misrepresentation that an individual or entity makes knowing that it could result in some unauthorized benefit to the individual or to the entity. Approximately 10% of incidents concerning in white collar crime is fraud. Financial statement fraud occurs in many ways which results into understatement of liabilities or expenses and overstatement of revenue and assets. However, corporations hire forensic experts to…

Small Business Fraud Fraud has become a major issue in the world in which we live today. Many would argue that fraud is quickly becoming a norm in today’s society. This abstract and false view on fraud has made its way into the business world and has created an idea that fraud is an acceptable and necessary part of living, specifically within small businesses. The unique aspect of small business fraud, is that the fraudster is possibly an employee within the company. To simply state that small…

He was introduced to the carpet cleaning industry at the age of twelve by his mother, who worked as a telephone solicitor for a small carpet cleaning firm. Due to the lack of barriers to entry in this industry (no licensing requirements, no apprenticeships to be served and only minimal start-up capital needed), it is not hard for anyone to start a carpet cleaning company. But at the same time, no barriers to entry meant that there was a cutthroat competition within the industry and it was not…

The Global AML Software Market 2014-2018, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the Americas and the EMEA and APAC regions; it also covers the Global AML Software market landscape and its growth prospects in the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market. According to the report, most people are increasingly shifting toward debit cards as a preferred mode of payment because…

you choose and how the corporate world would be affected if everyone chose similar actions. Auditors are known as the watchdogs of accounting. Their primary responsibility is to guard the best interest of the public. “The auditor’s obligations are to certify that public reports depicting a coronation’s financial status fairly present the corporation’s financial position and operations” (Duska, Duska, & Ragatz, 2011). During the WorldCom scandal, Arthur Anderson, originally one of the big five…