Dr. Dorothy A. McMullen

Dr. Dorothy A. McMullen, associate professor of accounting, has met the certification requirements to begin using the designation CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner).

This certification process includes submitting an application of a candidate’s professional and educational training, including three letters of recommendation, followed by passing the CFE exam and then final approval by the certification committee after review of submitted credentials. The CFE exam is a Windows-based program of 500 questions that tests the candidate’s knowledge and expertise in the four primary areas of fraud investigation: Fraudulent Financial Transactions, Legal Elements of Fraud, Fraud Investigation, and Criminology and Ethics.

The CFE examination is administered by the ACFE, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, which is the world's premier provider of anti-fraud training and education. With more than 36,000 members, the ACFE is reducing business fraud worldwide and inspiring public confidence in the integrity and objectivity within the profession.

Dr. McMullen’s pursuit of this certification was based on her previous research pursuits that focused on fraudulent financial reporting, her teaching of both Auditing and Accounting Information Systems, that increasingly focuses on computer fraud and security, and her involvement in Rider’s Center for Business Forensics and the Cyber Crime and Forensics Institute, which Rider University formed with East Stroudsburg University and Drexel University.