Career

Rebrand, reinvent and repurpose your fraud expertise

Achieving the fraud-fighting career of your dreams is more than just a matter of luck. Creating a strategy and executing a plan for cultivating your personal brand can help establish your skills and expertise, while differentiating you from others in the field. Here’s how to get started.

Iryna Shkraba, CFE

Iryna Shkraba, CFE, has conducted anti-fraud investigations in almost a dozen European countries. She’s a governance, risk and compliance professional who’s worked for organizations such as EY as well as financial industry companies. And while Shkraba is currently based in Vienna, Austria, she takes every chance she can to visit her family and friends in her hometown of Kyiv, Ukraine.

Two members join ACFE Board of Regents for 2023-2024

CFEs elected two new members to ACFE’s Board of Regents for the 2023-2024 term. The new members, Thomas A. Caulfield, CFE, and Natalie S. Lewis, CFE, replaced outgoing Regents Hannibal “Mike” Ware, CFE, and Alexandra Sagaro, CFE, whose terms ended in 2023. Caulfield and Lewis took their oaths of office during the board’s meeting in February.

When subjects admit guilt but they’re innocent

Why would someone confess to a crime they didn’t commit? Often an interviewer, trained to be accusatory and aggressive, will pressure subjects to admit guilt. Here’s how fraud examiners — rightfully constrained by higher ethics guardrails — can prevent false confessions that result in wrongful terminations and improper convictions, and ruin innocent subjects’ lives, while leaving the guilty free to commit additional crimes.

Build it right, and they will come

When we think of innovation, certain industries spring to mind: electric vehicles, fintech, medtech, space exploration, to name a few. But innovation and change are just as prevalent in the professional services industry, where consultants must stay up to speed to best advise their clients. Learn how professional services firms can stay competitive and relevant through technology innovation.

Kathryn Wilson, CFE

Kathryn Wilson, CFE, learned in high school that accounting encompasses so much more than crunching numbers — it’s also about following the money. And accounting isn’t just a job for Wilson, who conducts risk assessments and devises ways to prevent fraud as a senior manager in CohnReznick’s government and public-sector group; it’s also a family affair with her two brothers and late grandfather in the profession.

CFEs have the edge in pay, high work satisfaction, 2022 Compensation Guide shows

Certified Fraud Examiners (CFEs) earn 17% more than their non-certified counterparts, and 62% report being happy on the job. These are just a few of the insights from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiner’s (ACFE) 2022 Compensation Guide for Anti-Fraud Professionals, which also revealed a slow trend toward gender diversity in the anti-fraud profession and changing workplace habits since the COVID-19 pandemic.

What can CFEs learn from private investigators?

Some Certified Fraud Examiners, who are also licensed private investigators, say their PI skills have helped them become better practitioners. Here’s what they can teach us.

Six candidates selected for ACFE Board of Regents’ ballot

Six candidates have been selected to compete for two positions on the 2023-2024 Board of Regents. The board sets standards to promote professionalism and to ensure the reputation of the CFE credential.

Navigating the choppy waters of internal whistleblowing

All whistleblowers pay huge costs for their honesty and courage. But internal whistleblowers, who have few legal protections, endure the greatest hardships. Here’s what you need to know to support and encourage them and to protect yourself if you ever become a whistleblower.

Inheritance scam, improving cybersecurity protection and what to do if you get scammed

Rich relative died? Your boss wanting you to click on an email’s attachment? Don’t be fooled. And here’s advice if you do succumb to scams.

Gogi Overhoff, CFE

Long before she became a fraud examiner, Gogi Overhoff, CFE, had her sights set on becoming an actress. But instead of a life on stage, she shines a spotlight on licensed accountants accused of defrauding their clients in her role as an investigator for the California Board of Accountancy.