The 2014 Chapter Leaders Resource Guide is now available. This guide is filled with tips and suggestions from chapter leaders around the globe and offers strategies for increasing attendance at meetings, creating scholarship programs, dealing with difficult board members, and a host of other hints.
Read MoreTali Ploetz, CFE, is the SVP of Enterprise Risk Management at Santander Consumer USA. She is a mother of two, a community volunteer and a nature lover. By learning to balance her personal and professional life, she has been able to carve out time to serve as the president of the Dallas Chapter for the last two years.
Read MoreAs we prepare to celebrate the ACFE’s 25th anniversary this month in San Antonio, it is a good time to reflect on the strong growth of the anti-fraud profession. What started in Texas 25 years ago is now a truly global organization with more than 70,000 members worldwide.
Echoing the strong growth of the ACFE internationally, in the second quarter of 2014 six new ACFE chapters have sprouted up around the world, five of those outside of the US.
Read MoreBy Brenda Young, CFE and Kathleen Watson, CFE of the ACFE Toronto Chapter
When the idea of creating and publishing a monthly newsletter was presented at one of our board meetings, it was met with mixed thoughts. Some felt the newsletter could promote the Toronto Chapter and provide valuable information to our members and community. Others felt the novelty would wear off quickly and saw a challenge in maintaining topics of interest and locating subject matter.
Read MoreRichard "Rich" Sobine, CFE, has served on the board of directors for the Philadelphia Area Chapter continuously since he helped form the chapter in 1991. Currently the president and chairman of the board, Sobine has worked tirelessly to promote the ACFE and the CFE credential in the Philadelphia area.
Read MoreI recently attended the Maryland Chapter’s 11th Annual Fraud Conference, April 28-29 in Baltimore. In addition to enjoying some of Maryland’s famous crab cakes, I was also treated to watching the chapter put on the biggest event of its kind among chapters in the United States.
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