Association Of Certified Fraud Examiners

Fraud examiners: what happens when you combine a hard-bitten private investigator with a meticulous detail-obsessed accountant. It's Sam Spade mixed with the goofy neighbor from Ghostbusters (before he turned into a demon dog).
The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, or ACFE, brings together large groups of these dogged number-crunchers under one group. The organization, founded in 1988, provides training, education and certification services for the industry. It has 85,000 members as of 2018. Vastly different from The Association of Certified Frog Examiners. Yeah, we took a big leap there...



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