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ACFE Foundation awards scholarships in 21st year of Ritchie-Jennings Memorial Scholarship Program
The ACFE Foundation has awarded $58,000 to college and university students through the Ritchie-Jennings Memorial Scholarship Program for the 2015-2016 school year. Each recipient also will receive a one-year ACFE student membership.
Written By: ACFE Staff
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- Career and Professional Development
Shaun Aghili, DBA, CFE
Interview with Shaun Aghili, DBA, CFE
Written By: Cora Bullock
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- Career and Professional Development
Investing in the fight against fraud
The ACFE Research Institute funds real-world, actionable research that’s helping professionals detect, prevent and respond to fraud more effectively.
Written By: Crystal Zuzek
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- Accounting and Auditing
- Career and Professional Development
- Data Analytics
Finding common ground at the 36th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference
More than 5,400 fraud examiners from across the globe traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, or tuned in virtually for the 36th Annual ACFE Global Fraud Conference this past June. There, keynote speakers drew connections to fraud examiners and extolled their work to reduce fraud and corruption worldwide.
Written By: Jennifer Liebman, CFE
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- Bribery and Corruption
- Career and Professional Development
- Fraud Investigation and Examination
Truth, Transparency, and Accountability with No Political Agenda
David Walker is an anomaly: a top U.S. federal official beholden to no political party. And he likes it that way. As comptroller general of the United States and head of the General Accounting Office (GAO), Walker is charged with improving the performance and the accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people. Fraud, waste, abuse, and poor management are his enemies and his allies are truth, transparency, and accountability.
Written By: Dick Carozza, CFE
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- Anti-Fraud Laws Regulations and Compliance
- Government Fraud
Lessons from the PFI Ponzi scheme
When California businessman Kenneth Casey died in 2020, he left behind a Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 1,200 investors. Those investors sued Casey’s lender, Umpqua Bank, accusing it of being a partner in the scheme. In March, Umpqua agreed to pay $55 million to those investors. Here, the author details the scheme, the litigation that followed and how banks may strengthen their due diligence procedures to avoid accusations of fraud.
Written By: Francis Bueb, CFE, CPA, CISA
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- Fraud Prevention and Deterrence
- Fraud Risk Management
- Fraud Schemes
In Memoriam, Fabio Tortora, CFE
The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) remembers Fabio Tortora, CFE, past president and co-founder of ACFE's Italy Chapter. Tortora passed away in June 2025.
Written By: Anna Brahce
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- Fraud Prevention and Deterrence
- Members-Only Training and Resources
6 steps to recover unspent or misused funds in contract audits
With this six-step method, auditors can reverse engineer cash flow and recover potentially significant unspent or misappropriated funds, identify areas of noncompliance or inefficiency, and save money.
Written By: Sacha Ratnarajah, CFE, CPA
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- Accounting and Auditing
- Contract and Procurement Fraud
- Fraud Risk Management
Brought down by upcoding
For years William King ran a successful medical practice, but when his patients left his office, the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, doctor had a practice of a different sort — a medical billing scheme known as upcoding. Fraud Magazine examines how King perpetrated a years’ long upcoding scheme that defrauded an insurance company of hundreds of thousands of dollars and details how fraud examiners can detect similar schemes.
Written By: Colin May, CFE
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- Health Care Fraud
- Insurance Fraud
Separating objects from value: A high-tech approach to fraud prevention
Financial statement fraud is one of the costliest and most complex forms of fraud. Despite being the least common type of fraud (5% of cases), organizations lost a median $766,000 from it. The author explains how the 3P framework can help fraud examiners detect and prevent financial statement fraud.
Written By: Kurt Ramin, CFE, Klara Weiand, Ph.D., Tim Danne
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- Computers and Technology
- Fraud Investigation and Examination
- Fraud Prevention and Deterrence
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