Matthew Wickham, a Senior Manager with Dyer, Hughes, Roche & Wilson, Inc., has passed all four parts of the Certified Fraud Examiner Exam.

The Certified Fraud Examiner program is an accrediting process for individuals with the specialized skills necessary to detect, investigate, and deter fraud.

During the last several years, fraud examination has been described in such publications as U.S. News and World Report, Working Woman, and Money magazines as one of the fastest growing professions.

CFEs have the expertise to resolve allegations of fraud, obtain evidence, take statements, write reports, testify to findings and assist in the detection and prevention of fraud and white-collar crime.

According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners website, to become a CFE, an individual must pass a rigorous test on the four major disciplines that comprise the fraud examination body of knowledge:

• Fraud Prevention and Deterrence - Tests your knowledge of why people commit fraud and what can be done to prevent it. Topics covered in this section include crime causation, white-collar crime, occupational fraud, fraud prevention, fraud risk assessment, and the ACFE Code of Professional Ethics.

• Financial Transactions - This section tests your knowledge of the types of fraudulent financial transactions incurred in accounting records. To pass this section, you will be required to demonstrate knowledge of these concepts: basic accounting and auditing theory, fraud schemes, internal controls to deter fraud and other auditing and accounting matters.

• Fraud Investigation - This section includes questions in the following areas: interviewing, taking statements, obtaining information from public records, tracing illicit transactions, evaluating deception and report writing.

• Legal Elements of Fraud - This section ensures that you are familiar with the many legal ramifications of conducting fraud examinations, including criminal and civil law, rules of evidence, rights of the accused and accuser and expert witness matters.

Matt holds a BS in Accounting, University of Akron and has more than 20 years of extensive public accounting experience in tax, accounting and auditing, and management advisory services.  Prior to entering public accounting, Matt had five years of industrial accounting experience working for a closely-held, multi-divisional family of companies.

Matt is a member of OSCPA, AICPA, and IMA.  He has dedicated many years of service as a trustee on various not-for-profit boards and is a graduate of the Leadership Wooster Class of 2002-2003.